Club Guy & Roni

Club Guy & Roni is an international dance company from Groningen,Netherlands,^[1] led by choreographers Roni Haver and Guy Weizman. The company was founded in 2002.

The performances are characterized by collaborations with artists in music, film and theatre and are generally considered to be of modern nature.^[2] Club Guy & Roni makes productions that tour through Europe, and since 2009 the company is being subsidized by the NFPK.^[3]

Performances from 2005

2005 Language of Walls
2007 Myhrr and Cinammon
2008 Poetic Disasters
2009 Pinball and Grace
2009 Desert Highway
2009 Heelhuids & Halsoverkop (in collaboration with NNT)
2010 FKK
2010 Four Walls
2010 Alpha Boys
2010 Air Ways (in collaboration with Oldenburgisches Staatstheater)
2011 Miraculous Wednesday (in collaboration with Oldenburgisches Staatstheater)
2011 L'Histoire du Soldat (in Moskou)
2012 Midnight Rising
2012 Modern Love (film)
2013 L’Histoire du Soldat
2013 Romeo et Juliette (in collabortation with Oldenburgisches Staatstheater)
2013 CRASH (in collaboration with NNT)
2013 Naked Lunch (in collaboration with Slagwerk Den Haag and Vocaallab)
2014 My Private Odyssey (in collaboration with TanzMainz, the VOLSAP foundation and the Tomoko Mukaiyama foundation)

Club Guy & Roni performs at various festivals, like Oerol, Zwarte Cross and De Parade, and has performed in the past at the American Jacob's Pillow Festival and the Grec Festival in Barcelona, Spain. Club Guy & Roni could also be seen throughout the years at festivals in Madric, Rome, Tallinn, Berlin, Marseille and Frankfurt.

International co-productions

The choreographers Guy Weizman and Roni Haver also get invited by external parties to create collaborational performances. Since 2010, Haver and Weizman are considered 'artists in residence' at the Oldenburgisches State Theater en since then they have co-produced 'Alpha Boys (2010), 'Miraculous Wednesday' (2011) and Roméo and Juliette' (2013).

In addition, the choreographers have also been working together with the Moscow dance company Tsekh Contemporary Dance Centre since 2011 and have produced a Russian L'Histoire du Soldat'’.^[4] At the moment they are working together on a new production.

In Tuscany and Belgrado,^[5] Club Guy & Roni has also done co-productions, as well as with the Gothenburg Ballet (Sweden) and Carte Blanche (Norway).^[6]

Awards

Russian Golden Mask National Theatre Award in the category Best Ballet Master/Best Choreographer for the in Russia produced version of ‘L’Histoire du Soldat’ (2013)^[7]
The Swan for "best dance production" for 'Midnight Rising'. (2013)^[8]

Nominations

Roni Haver: Silver Theater dance award for ‘Albert and Panja’ (2001)
Roni Haver: The Swan for best Dance Performance for ‘Myrrh and Cinnamon’ (2005)
VSCD Theatre Award for ‘Heelhuids en Halsoverkop’ (2009)^[9]
The Swan in the category Best Dance Production for ‘Alpha Boys’ (2011)^[10]
Russian Golden Mask National Theatre Award in the category Innovation/Best Production for the in Russia produced version of ‘L’Histoire du Soldat’ (2013)^[11]
Dunja Jocic: The Swan for best Dance Performance for 'Midnight Rising'. (2013)
Igor Podsiadly: The Swan for best Dance Performance for 'Naked Lunch'. (2014)

Additional projects

Since 2013, Club Guy & Roni has taken in a new dance group under the name of Club Guy & Roni's Poetic Disaasters Club. This is a platform for young dancers about to graduate/just graduated. With this project, Club Guy & Roni wants to create a platform for young dancers, so they can get acquainted with the dance world. The internship lasts 6 months, after which the dancers make room for a new group of dancers.

In 2011, Club Guy & Roni started the initiative 'Duizend Dansjes Festival', to raise money for the UMCG Cancer Researchfund in Groningen. begonnen Club Guy & Roni het initiatief Duizend Dansjes Festival, om geld in te zamelen voor het UMCG Kanker Researchfonds in Groningen. Eventually, 15.140 euro's were raised for the Fund.^[12]

Move it! is a participation project in which Club Guy & Roni and the Noord Nederlands Orkest teach a group of youths a choreography based on orchestral work. The first edition was in 2011.

Together with the Noord Nederlands Toneel, Club Guy & Roni organizes the educational project ‘Dichterbij’ in which a group of 60 youths create a performance in one week under the guidance of professionals.

References

External links

Website Club Guy & Roni

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