Juxtapose will be performed on 27 August at the Tanzmesse in Düsseldorf. The internationale tanzmesse is a biennial marketplace and festival platform for communicating and networking in the field of contemporary dance.

‘At the start, two ladies look like two cakes covered in a layer of icing: caricatures of traditional women’s roles in fifties’ clothes and Marilyn Monroe poses, but the perfect images rapidly collapse. Laughter turns to sighs, moans to screams that in turn develop into hysterical exaggerations. The two women constantly throw themselves on the ground only to get to their feet once more – a symbol of the eternal loop of the expectations in which they feel trapped. It is screamingly amusing and gloriously rowdy. And, throws up questions like how do women liberate themselves from female patterns of behaviour. Is the answer to simply become “male“? Can we make ourselves independent of other people’s opinions? I am what I think that you think I am…?’
Wednesday 27.8. – 21:15
tanzhaus nrw / small stage
Erkrather Str. 30 – Düsseldorf
€ 18,- (13,-)

http://www.tanzmesse.com/pages/performances/companies/dansmakers-en.htm

Cecilia has been nominated for a second year in a row for the Price of the Dutch Dance Days! Other nominees are Jan Martens and Juanjo Arqués. The three nominees have to precent a concept for new work to a commission existing of the festival director Peggy Olislaegers, choreographer Ed Wubbe, alderman of culture in Maastricht Mieke Damsma, Ton Smeets and Jo Hoen from Stichting Cultuur en Bedrijf Maastricht and director Branko Popovic of FASHIONCLASH Maastricht. On 3rd of October the winner will be revealed during the opening of the Dutch Dance Days in Maastricht.

‘Cecilia Moisio (Finland 1978), who was also nominated in 2013, keeps firmly developing her style and vision. With her committed work she challenges the public to take a stand in how they relate to social behavioral-patterns that are being forced upon us. Her unpolished, multidisciplinary work shows raw emotion on one hand and tight, controlled movement on the other. A headstrong, explosive and inescapable artist.’

http://www.nederlandsedansdagen.nl/nl/publiek/nieuws/2014_genomineerden_prijs_van_de_nederlandse_dansdagen_maastricht