An orgasmic dance rock event directed by David Zambrano.
From the 7th of January until 4th of February 2013, David Zambrano directed a selected group of 21 international dance artists through a journey of spontaneous orgasmic rock dances where sound and movement were constantly spiraling through each other. This event ended with four performances for the general public.
Performers: Emilios Arapoglou, Paul Blackman, Florencia Demestri, Gabriel Ahumada Dorantes, Nicanor de Elia, Edivaldo Ernesto, Richard Fredborg, Clara Furey, Christina Gouzelis, Joe Jurd, Vania Luana, Horacio Macuacua, Sophia Mage, Mark Meszaros, My Nilsson, Michael O’Connor, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold, Sabina Scarlat, Alan Scherk, Mat Voorter, Simon Wehrli.
Premiered at Danspace Project, New York.
Improvisation choreographed for Mat Voorter, Thomas Hauert, Astrud Angarita, Akos Hargitai, David Zambrano.
Music by Thelonious Monk, Tito Puente, Duke Ellington, X-legged Sally.
Premiered at Theatro Cadafe, Venezuela and toured in Tour De Fuerza: Nuevo Latino Dance and Performance from Dance Theater Workshop. Improvisational solo. Music by Miguel Noya.
Performed by David Zambrano and Iva Bittová: a full evening of dance and music improvisation conducted and performed by those two collaborators and improvisation icons who will unite their forces for the fourth time on stage.
Iva Bittová is a violinist-vocalist and composer. Her musical worldview and visionary creativity acknowledge no borders. Her powers of spontaneous creativity are more bountiful than it is fair to confer on one person. Witness and marvel.
David Zambrano is a thrilling performer of dance improvisation, inspiring teacher and innovative choreographer. His improvisation is committed to art as a cultural exchange developing the creative process in a world without borders. ‘Why Not!’ is the title of this unique performance, a symbiosis of their working methods for improvisation on stage. They have performed in Berlin, Niigata (Japan), and Prague.
For in addition to their eclectic biographies there is something else that connects them: a passion for improvisation. And so the choreographer, who has always sought contact to other artistic genres in his work, and the musician who is no less inquisitive shall set off together on a journey into the unknown.
Premiered at Tanz im August, Berlin. Solo improvisation. Music by Beethoven.
Premiered at Danspace Project, New York. Directed trio improvisation performed by Linda Mancini, Jackie Shue, Eva Gueke. Music by Guy Yarden.
250 days of walking in new shoes. For this project, David Zambrano choreographed the whole year 2010–11 in events that involved the number 50 as a celebration of his 50 years of age:
– 50 days intensive workshop for a selected group of 50 professional dancers representing more than 30 countries, staged in San José, Costa Rica.
– 50 village performances: 10 villages each in Costa Rica, Senegal, Poland, South Korea, and Slovenia.
– 50 mins performances with Edivaldo Ernesto and David Zambrano in Brussels.
– 50 days painting on the coast of Cadaqués, Spain.
– 50 days learning how to make shoes (cancelled due to health problems with the shoemaker from Sweden).
Premiered at Danspace Project, New York. Directed and choreographed in collaboration with Mat Voorter, Thomas Hauert, Tim Feldmann, Paco Macia, and Alexis Eupierre. Music by M. Theodorakis.
Premiered at Movement Research Presenting Series, New York. Contact improvisation duet with Daniel Lepkoff. Music by Daniel Lepkoff.
My name is Jesus David Zambrano. I come from a large family with many brothers and sisters. I was given the first name, Jesus, because my mother and my grandmother hoped that I would be the son who would become a priest. They sent me to military academies from the age of 13 to 17, thinking maybe that if I didn’t become a priest, I’d become a coronel like my father. I don’t think that my mother and grandmother ever expected that I would turn out to be a dancer. When I dance this piece I wear a long shirt Hindu Priest like. It is as close as I can become to fulfilling their desire, and this piece is about desire.The music is from a Slovakian composer, and I dance to the Stabat Mater piece which is a hymn sung to the mother of Jesus. This particular Stabat Mater was composed by Vladimir Godar and it is sung by a gypsy woman I know very well. Her name is Iva Bittova and we have performed together two times already. Something in her manner, voice, and energy reminds me of my mother and my grandmother.
On the 28th of October 2010, two days before we were to have a party in our new house in Brussels, there was a fire. I purchased the house with my husband, Mat, and we had spent more than a year fixing it to make it liveable. Mat thought that the fire was his fault. When the firemen arrived, they broke down the front door. Mat and I turned the broken, charred door into a table. Its our dining table, and I painted a graffiti with some words for Mat on it in-between where the flames licked the wood, MY FIRE IS STILL BURNING FOR YOU.
Photography : © Ksenija Spanec
