Flesh by Iván Pérez

Iván Pérez

Flesh ´Flesh´ is an interdisciplinary dance performance created as my debut in the regular programming of the renown Netherlands Dance Theater II. As a former dancer of the company I had experienced the excitements, the adventures and the desires of a young dancer. When I decided to create ´Flesh´ I went back to those memories. The loss of my parents happen to be one of them, both of them passing away during my years as a young dancer in NDT II. All this explains how personal the creation process of ´Flesh´ was for me. With this work I aimed to question my perceptions of memory, loss, love and death. The poem of Keith Douglas, ´The knife´, inspired the structural narrative of the piece. ´The knife´was created in the 1940´s, during World War II, in which Douglas reveals the mystery of living in memory, the reminiscence of a past love and the permanence beyond flesh. Credits Nederlands Dans Theater II Premiered 24th of Februrary 2011 Lucent Dans Theater. Choreography Iván Pérez Music Arvo Pärt, Eric Withacre Dancers Sarah Murphy, Chloé Albaret, Astrid Boons, Meng-Ke Wu, César Faria Fernandes, Quentin Roger, Spenser Theberge, Marco Blázquez Costume design Carlijn Petermeijer Light design Tom Visser Decor concept Iván Pérez Poem Keith Douglas Voice Sarah Murphy Sounds editing Thijs Scheele Duration: 23 min.