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My Everlasting @ Gashouder, Het Radium
My Everlasting will be presented on location in the Gashouder Maastricht on the 16th and 17th of September as part of the 35th edition of Musica Sacra Maastricht. For more information, visit http://www.musicasacramaastricht.nl
‘The Cage’ @ Stadhuis Maastricht
Ivan Montis, The Cage (2017)
Review ‘We Are Nowhere Else But Here’ NRC
Het zijn de mooiste momenten in een festival: ineens is daar het pareltje. Vaak onverwacht. In de achttiende editie van CaDance, het Haagse festival voor hedendaagse dans van Nederlandse bodem, is dat We Are Nowhere Else But Here van Stephen Shropshire. Een ontroerend duet over verbondenheid, op pianomuziek van Schubert en Beethoven die romantisch door …
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Works
We Are Nowhere Else But Here (2017)
Production: Stephen Shropshire / Korzo producties with addition support from Posthof Theater Linz and Project Sally Maastricht
Premiere: February 2, 2017 Korzo Theater, The Hague NL
Dancers: Aimee Lagrange and Jussi Nousiainen
Production design: Stephen Shropshire
Lighting Design: Xavier van Wersch
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert
My Everlasting (2014)
Production: Stephen Shropshire / Holland Dance Festival with addition support from Rimbun Dahan Contemporary Arts Center, Centre National de la Danse Paris (CND), Euregionaal Dansplatform Theater aan het Vrijthof, Project Sally Maastricht, and Noord Nederlandse Dans
Premiere: February 4, 2014 Korzo Theater, The Hague NL
Dancers: Aimee Lagrange and Jussi Nousiainen
Costume design: Natasja Lansen
Lighting Design: Otto Eggersgluss
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About
Choreographer Stephen Shropshire is interested in the transformation of technique, musicality, and craft, towards a meaningful reflection of the human experience. As a contemporary dance maker, he is dedicated to actively engaging in the cultural discourse on dance through the continued exploration of choreographic work that challenges aesthetic, structural, and narrative assumptions and responds to the broader socio-political themes that are relevant to our time.
- Holds a BFA in dance from the Juilliard School and an MA in arts and heritage from the University of Maastricht.
- In recent years has created works for a.o. the New Zealand Dance Company, the National Dance Company of Wales, Ballet Augsburg, and the Danish Dance Theater.
- Artistic director of Noord Nederlandse Dans from 2009 to 2012
- Works have been performed in The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sweden, Italy, Cyprus, France, Finland, Israel, Iceland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
