FOLIA performance at FASHIONCLASH Festival

picture by Team Peter Stigter

Project Sally Maastricht presented a “Folia” dance performance at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016, a powerful and visually stunning piece performaned by two very talented dancers.

Each year Project Sally Maastricht invites young choreographers during their Choreographic Residencies Program. Especially for the 8th edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival they assigned the talented French choreographer, Martin Harriague to create a new work.
For this performance Martin Harriague once again collaborated with with Maastricht based designer Mieke Kockelkorn. Last year they created Tabula Rasa

'Throughout history, cultural heritage has been threatened by the constant evolution of the world’s social and political concerns. Too often, the result of this threat has been the disappearance of some of the world’s greatest cultural achievements.'
Folia is inspired by the traditions and history of the Iberian peninsula where Martin was born, creating a contemporary adaptation of ‘La Folia’ - a quick-paced, tumultuous dance dating back to the late 15th century.

Choreography : Martin Harriague
Costumes: Mieke Kockelkorn
Performed by: Patrizio Bucci, Luis Pedraza Cedrón
Production: Project Sally Maastricht
Folia is supported by Via Zuid

Tabula Rasa - Maastricht Colours You

Tabula Rasa 'Spectrum' performance for Maastricht Colors You

Last weekend, June 20, city of Maastricht had to the honor to host Roze Zaterdag (Pink Saturday). Under the title 'Maastricht Colors You' all over the city festivities and events where organized around the context to celebrate diversity.
For this occasion we presented the Tabula Rasa dance performance at Centre Céramique.
Project Sally Maastricht, FASHIONCLASH and designer Mieke Kockelkorn started a partnership with the aim to provide the awareness and transcend conservative gender roles in our society and a message of freedom. In a range of workshops, transgender youngsters are working with Mieke and Project Sally to create a collection that will be reflected through various dance performances. Tabula Rasa is a gathering of different people who clash dance and fashion with purpose to engage a dialogue with the society.

Project Sally Maastricht organizes Choreographic Residencies Maastricht, and for Tabula Rasa they invited promising Franch choreographer Martin Harriague to develop a performance based on the FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 theme of gender and the festival's campaign. The first presentation took place during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015. The aim is to develop the project further and to invite more choreographer, designers and dancers to engage with the project.

For the first presentation of Tabula Rasa, Martin Harriague developed a striking contemporary dance performance 'Spectrum'. Mieke Kockelkorn designed the costumes and dancers Patrizio Bucci and Morgane Michel brought the performance to live.

http://www.projectsally.nl
http://www.martinharriague.com
http://www.miekekockelkorn.nl

all images are courtesy of FASHIONCLASH

Tabula Rasa - dance performance

Tabula Rasa, a dance performance during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

June 14 - 18:30 at SAMdecorfabriek
Online pre-sale: 10 euro
Door- sale: 12,50 euro

Tickets are available: here

You want to see the FASHIONCLASH Festival campaign and the theme of gender come to live than you got to see Tabula Rasa.

Project Sally Maastricht, FASHIONCLASH and designer Mieke Kockelkorn started a partnership with the aim to provide the awareness and transcend conservative gender roles in our society and a message of freedom. In a range of workshops, transgender youngsters will work with Mieke and Project Sally to create a collection that will be reflected and with a dance performance. Tabula Rasa is a gathering of different people who clash dance and fashion with purpose to engage a dialogue with the society.

Choreography: Martin Harriague
Dancers: Morgane Michel and Patrizio Bucci.

Tabula rasa, ( Latin: “scraped tablet”— i.e., “clean slate”) in epistemology theory of knowledge) and psychology, a supposed condition that empiricists attribute to the hu- man mind before ideas have been imprinted on it by the reaction of the senses to the external world of objects.

More information about FASHIONCLASH Festival: program

left Project Sally Maastricht (photo Tycho Merlijn)
right designer Mieke Kockelkorn

(OLD)Fashion(ed) Exhibition Opening & Stroop premiere

(OLD)Fashion(ed) exhibition at Museum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht opened this evening. The opening featured premiere of  the performance 'Stroop', created by Project Sally and designer Sabine Staartjes. For this project they where connected to the craft of syrup, and in particular collaborated with Canisius company.

(OLD)Fashion(ed) is a collaboration with FASHIONCLASH, Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Festival) and Museum aan het Vrijthof.

Four choreographers, four fashion designers were inspired by crafts like metal shaping, papermaking, wheat weaving and syrup making. They created four danced fashion shows or four fashionable dance works, with untrained dancers between the ages of 63 and 80. The project started of with its first presentations during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014.

At Museum aan het Vrijthof you can also visit the exhibition (OLD)Fashion(ed), which will have its festive opening on 21 September and run until 16 November.
More informatiomn about the exhibition: http://www.museumaanhetvrijthof.nl/page_nieuws.aspx?id=598

During the Dutch Dance Festival in Maastricht all four performances of (OLD)Fashion(ed) will be performed. Two of the performances will be shown in the Toneelacademie, and the other two in the monumental Museum aan het Vrijthof during the Dutch Dance Festival (October 3 -5). You can buy a combination ticket that allows you to see all the performances, on the time of your choice -> here

(OLD)Fashion(ed) Participants 
- Dunja Jocic (choreographer), Romy van Eijk (designer) & Ben van Berlo (crafts man)
- Dario Tortorelli (choreographer), Anke Huyben (designer) & Leo Hoegen (crafts man)
- Andrea Leine(choreographer), Linda Friesen (designer) & Ingrid Reinhoud (crafts woman)
- Ronald Wintjes (Project Sally), Sabine Staartjes (designer) & syrup makers craftsmen

More information about the project: http://fashionclash.nl/oldfashioned/

Images of the performance Stroop and exhibtion.
All images in courtesy of FASHIONCLASH.