Breakin' Convention Goes NL

Soweto Skeleton Movers (South Africa)
From the most notorious township on the African continent comes the rubber-limbed, bone-breaking Soweto Skeleton Movers, famed for their spin on 'pantsula' developed by skeleton mover pioneer, Jabulani Manynoi. Drawing comparisons to breaking, popping, and house dance, the addition of bone-breaking, contortionism, acrobatic footwork and hat tricks differentiates Soweto Skeleton Movers from other pantsula groups. Their unique dancing -not to mention the magical hat tricks -will astound and amaze!

Joseph Toonga (United Kingdom)
Four powerful performers use hip hop, afro beat, krump dance and voice to dismantle presumptions about the black figure.  Images of intimidation, danger and isolation, reveal character traits around fragility, vulnerability and the constant battle to have to prove oneself. Born to Protest is part of a trilogy of work choreographer Joseph Toonga is making to highlight black excellence and challenge racial stigmas around black culture. Created in the climate of hopelessness and anger that folllowed the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Born to Protest is vital and untimely. An intense and ultimately redemptive work. A Breakin’ Convention and Dutch premiere. 

Kinetic Art (Japan)
Using string as a metaphor to portray the interconnectivity of events around us tangling and untangling, this fusion of contemporary dance and breaking draws inspiration from the traditional Japanese game ‘ayatori’ and the English proverb ‘”it takes two to tango”, playing on the word “it takes two to tangle”. Using acrobatic contact work, Tangle poses the question of how a person chooses to exist within the fluctuating situations, environments and connections to others around them.