Work Category: Performances

Based on his 1996 piece Ballroom, David Zambrano choreographed a new work for the dance students of Manufacture/Lausanne/Switzerland.

Dancers: Anna Marija Adomaityté, Alex Landa Aguirreche, Sarah Bucher, Alexia Casciaro, Audrey Dionis, Laura Gaillard, Marc Osterhoff, Romane Peytavin, Pierre Piton, Maryfé Singy.

Directed by David Zambrano.
Performed by Ismaera Takeo Ishii and David Zambrano.

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

Holes is a series of 4 different duets conceived and directed by david zambrano in collaboration with four dance artist: Jimmy Ortiz, Cynthia Loemij, Sue Yeon Youn and Milan Henrich.

Each duet is performed by David Zambrano and one of the four dance artists.

 

Premiered at Frascati Theatre in Amsterdam. Conceived and directed by David Zambrano in collaboration with 11 other dance artists: Stanislav Dovak, Horacio Macuacua, Edivaldo Ernesto, Andy Zondag, Nicholas Aphane, Elia Mrak, Marcus Baldemar, Young Kool Park, Piergiorgio Milano, Steven Michel, and Gilles Polet.

Evocation, vocation, action, act, on, n…

Soul Project is a dance piece conceived and directed by David Zambrano in collaboration with an international cast, and is realized through the individual movement quest of each performer as guided by soul music. Being continuously alive. On, like a candle.

2006: September 27-30 – Amsterdam – Brakke Grond / October 26-28 – Berlin – Radial System / November 8 – Utrecht – Theater Kikker.
2007: September 27-30 – Amsterdam – Brakke Grond / October 26-28 – Berlin – Radial System / November 8 – Utrecht – Theater Kikker.
Solo Artists: Eleanor Bauer (USA), Edivaldo Ernesto (Mozambique), Nina Fajdga (Slovenia)

Photography : © Anja Hitzenberger

Premiered at Brakke Grond Theater, Amsterdam.

Performed by 12 solo artists: Eleanor Bauer, Eugenie Rebetez, Ermis Malkotsis, Edivaldo Ernesto, Horacio Macuacua, Peter Jasko, Milan Herich, Matthieu Perpoint, Sue Yeon Youn, Carlos Garbin, Nina Fajdiga, and David Zambrano.

Premiered at Frascati Theater, Amsterdam

Conceived and directed by David Zambrano
Light by Ellen Knops

Performed by 14 dancers: Edivaldo Ernesto, Thomas Hauert, Milan Herich, Peter Jasko, Martin Kilvaldy, Hilse Leon, Horacio Macuacua, Hermes Malkotsis, Paul Neuninger, Rafael Nieves, Isabel Story, Matthieu Perpoint, Mat Voorter, David Zambrano

DWA, Dans Werk Amsterdam
Movement research project for 17 selected young dancers from 13 countries: Ermis Malkotsis, Gustavo Barros, Gabor Varga, Willy Prager, Milan Herich, Carmen Larraz, Chloe Attou, Sissel Merete Bjorklis, Matja Ferlin, Gabor Pete, Lucas Condro, Peter Jasko, Laida Aldaz Arrieta, Mioko Yoshihara, Eugenie Rebetez, Zsuzsa Rozsavolgyi, Vebjorn Sundby

Photography : © Anja Hitzenberger

Choreographed and performed improvisation with M. Voorter, C. Parkinson, A. Thery
Music by Liza Minelli, Sandro, and remixes from Alfred Hitchock films

Together with an international cast of dancers, David Zambrano creates an evening full of performances with choreographed and improvised structures.

‘I made up the verb mandraking Mandrake, who was a famous mogicion in comic books when / was growing up in Venezuela. During my childhood (1960’s) when something seemed impossible, people would say: . ‘only Mandrake can do it’ 1. Mandraking is for me the action festing physically what one can imagine

Concept and direction: David Zambrano
Dance: Chrysa Parkinson (USA), Alexandre Thery (F), Mat Voorter (NL), David Zambrano (NIV[).
Light and set: Simon Siegmann
Costumes: Mat Voorter

Premiered Brakke Grond Theater, Amsterdam
Talkshow format collaborators include: Simone Forti, Jennifer Monson, John Jasperse, Akram Kahn, Ko Morobuchi, Jose Navas, Hooman Sharifi, Siri Jontvedt, Maria Clara-Villalobos, Tom Plishka, Hisako Horikawa, Thomas Hauert, Anne Teresa De Keersmaker, Jordi Cortez, Meg Stuart, Osmani Tellez, Sasha Waltz, Palle Dyrval, Majid Ghadiri, Frans Poelstra, Mark Tompkins, Michael Moore, Michael Vatcher, Nuno Rebelo, Misha Mengelberg, Ab Bears, Wilbert De Joode, Tristan Honsinger