WUBKJE KUINDERSMA
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SKETCHED SKIN

Meine Haut ist eine Landkarte der Berührung
My skin is a map of touch
Ein Lager voller Erinnerungen
A storage of memories
Gespeichert in meiner Haut
Sketched into my skin
Manchmal folge ich den Spuren dieser Landkarte
Often I follow the traces on this map   
Und hoffe heimlich es bringe dich zuruck zu mir
And secretly I hope it will bring you back to me



Choreography: Wubkje Kuindersma
Text/ costume/ light/ stage-design: Wubkje Kuindersma
Realisation costume & light: Stuttgart Ballet
Dancers Stuttgart Ballet: Alicia Amatriain, Rachele Buriassi, Louis Stiens, Anouk van der Weijde, Edoardo Boriani, Fabio Adorisio
Noverre Gesellschaft / Young Choreographers 2014 / Stuttgart Ballet
Premiere: 17 July 2014 Schauspielhaus Stuttgart



Sketched Skin (trailer): https://vimeo.com/101415785
Sketched Skin ( excerpt): https://vimeo.com/114038333


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Fabio Adorisio, Rachele Buriassi, Alicia Amatriain, Louis Stiens, Eduardo Boriani / © photo: Ulrich Beuttenmüller / all rights reserved by Stuttgart Ballet
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Fabio Adorisio, Louis Stiens / ©photo: Ulrich Beuttenmüller / all rights reserved by Stuttgart Ballet

reviews

"....Kuindersma's “Sketched Skin” began intriguingly. Five of its six dancers wore white tutus which they had pulled over their backs like capes. They looked like they had gone thru pupation and were wearing their cocoons' remains. Some lay on their back, folding their lower legs down to the side like tired moths. Others stood scattered about the stage. Wafts of mist hung in the air. A recorded poem informed us that the piece deals with the hope of bringing back a lost person - someone remembered as touching the narrator's skin. Alicia Amatriain, the cast's sixth dancer, and Louis Stiens depicted the couple at the center of the story. Yet it wasn't clear which of the two had been abandoned and which one had departed. Kuindersma tells the story in three stages. First, Amatriain rejoins the group. This happens to François Coupérin’s and Max Richter's yearning melodies for the violin. Electronic sound suddenly destroys the harmony. Was this, maybe, a flashback to the couple's former disagreements? In any case, it proved to be an irritating break! Finally, enveloped in the full timbre of Cecilia Bartoli's voice, Amatriain and Stiens reunite in a pas de deux that radiates intimacy and togetherness. Although nothing about this ballet’s style was new, its poetic moments attracted....." (translated from german)
Ilona Landgraf - Landgraf on Dance
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"...Sehr reife Züge einer erfahrenen Choreographin trägt „SKETCHED SKIN“ der Niederländerin Wubkje Kuindersma. Sechs TänerInnen, zuerst in Oberkörper und Hals umschlingenden Schwanen-Tutus, dann in schick eleganten schwarzen Shorts, spüren zu berührenden Arie antiche ihren Erinnerungen via Haut als besonders sensiblem Speicher nach. Langsame bedächtige Bewegungen, zartes Streichen über  das Gesicht, dazu vielfach auf Spitze sanft im Fluss gehaltene Bahnen sind wie gemacht für Alicia Amatriain, die solistisch hervortritt und sich mit dem einfühlsamen Louis Stiens zu einem Pas de deux vereint. Dieser wiederum gestaltet mit Fabio Adorisio einen nicht weniger beeindruckenden in Einklang gebrachten Pas de deux..."
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Online Merker

​".....Trennungsschmerz und das Leiden an der Welt bringt Wubkje Kuindersma, die einzige Frau unter den Choreografen, in „Sketched Skin“ in Form. Unter Nebel platziert sie vier Tänzer, die Tutus wie Halskrausen tragen, zu ungewöhnlichen Stillleben. Schön anzusehen ist auch, wie das Leid aus jeder Muskelfaser von Alicia Amatriain spricht...."  
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