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Aafke de Jong - DansOntwerp
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Dutch-Indian writer Alfred Birney, being a descendant of two cultures, defined Aafke’s choreographic work as “chameleonic”. Indeed, after Aafke de Jong graduated from Rotterdam Dance Academy (now called Codarts) she left her own well-known environment and “escaped” to Bali to look for a new way of dancing and living. It is a saying that people are defined by the people who surround them and perhaps because Aafke lived in different cultures she sometimes feels as if she has more than one identity. This shows clearly in her work. In her choreographies she shows a preference for detailed and stylistic movements borrowed from Balinese dance, while at other times she looks more to her own imagination and gets inspired by other people, (social) science and, to her, interesting books. Aafke is fascinated by the curves and craters of our human brain, literally and metaphorically spoken. She likes to drag dance out of its pure abstraction and wants to communicate in a very associative way. Aafke enjoys working with other artists, like video artists, writers, architects etc. This kind of cooperation is not only food for inspiration on a personal level, but also broadens her own view to the world and her way of looking at her own dance work. Even though, paradoxical, in for example her short dance film Itch! she tears apart the inside and outside of human beings for a few minutes, Aafke actually does not think they are very separated at all. It is just that sometimes we are actors who act like humans and sometimes we are humans who behave like actors…
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Movement artist(dancer/interdisciplinary performer), Independent Educators (consultant/ instructors/ workshop leaders/ lecturers/ researchers)
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