Before the dancers went on their annual Winter break our artistic director, choreographer and dancer Vraja Sundari Keilman couldn’t help but create fresh new material with the dancers for the Spring season of 2012 as the entire year left our choreographer filled with inspiration and energy for new creations! The new production for 2012 is titled ‘ Mohini’ – Sanskrit for ‘illusion personified’ – and the production promises to be a bright and fun yet touching performance filled with subtle details of humor and intimacy. Music will include live music as well as tracks of Bonobo, Takagi Masakatsu, Cirque du Soleil and Bon Iver, complimenting and characterizing the vivid storyline. The performance will consist of an innovative combination of contemporary ballet, break-dance, (aerial) acrobatics and a touch of comical drama and theater. More information will soon be announced so make sure to keep an eye on our updates of Samadhi’s latest colorful work of art ‘Mohini’!
On Monday February 6 at 20:00 hr Samadhi is honored to announce their participation at the Nieuwjaarsconcert held at the Nieuwe Kerk in Den Hague! This unique event is organized by the foundation Blijf Vrouw and the concert will include appearances of renowned artists such as Karin Bloemen, Jan Vayne and Petra Berger. The entire evening aims at giving female cancer patients a wonderful, joyous and entertaining evening where for a few hours they can forget about their condition and enjoy themselves! We are extremely honored to be part of such a wonderful initiative and are happy to present a short new choreography to George Harrison’s ‘Here Comes the Sun’ as well as the final scène from ‘Bho’ and the stunning solo by Annlydie Groenen on Ingrid Michaelson’s live performance of ‘Keep Breathing’ from our award-winning production ‘Saranágati’. Dancers will include Ilaria Angelicchio, Rasarani Keilman, Jeffrey Stuut, Annlydie Groenen, Sarada Sarita Keilman, Vraja Sundari Keilman and our latest addition to the team Liam O’Callaghan and we would like to thank Belinda D’Alba for inviting us to perform at this beautiful event! We all look forward to a wonderful and memorable evening and can’t wait to kick start the new season! For more information please see the following article or visit www.blijfvrouw.nl
This year we will be opening the Spring season with an absolutely stunning project that will surely grab your attention! We are extremely proud to announce the results of our collaboration with the brilliant photographer Karen Scheffers and celebrity-hairstylist Leo NG from Hairfashion in Amsterdam. Karen, Leo and Vraja decided to join forces and create a most unique series of photos with the dancers wearing items of the latest fashion collection of Leo’s Airfashion, a wonderful collection brought in straight from Hong Kong under the label ‘Upper Mansion’. The shoot took place during October 2011 at our previous Samadhi Studio in Amsterdam where the highly pregnant Karen managed to shoot 6 hours in a row ! The entire theme and atmosphere of the photos breathe light, movement and energy and the results can be seen as a sneak preview of our very new production for 2012 titled ‘Mohini’. Even the design for the poster of ‘Mohini’ originates from this inspiring shoot and gives an excellent feel of its character and colors.
As the pictures are considered little jewels by the artists and dancers involved, we will be presenting only a few yet gorgeous selection of the series every month, just to keep you a little in suspense as well as to enjoy the results of this beautiful collaboration over time! So stay up to date on our News Page and Facebook Page and be the first one to view the results of this one of a kind project!
What a news !! Thanks to your votes Samadhi’s touching performance ‘Saranágati’ has received the very first Danspublieksprijs for best dance performance of 2011, incredible !! The Danspublieksprijs is a Dutch Dance Award selected by the audience and Samadhi Dance Company was extremely honored to receive the award along with SYTYCD star Meysam Noori who also won the Danspublieksprijs for Best Dancer of 2011! The award ceremony took place after the So You Think You Can Dance theater-tour performance at the Amsterdam RAI and was hosted by the charismatic choreographer Rinus Sprong, co-founder of the Dutch Don’t Dance Division who came in 3rd place with their production ‘ABDALLAH en De Gazelle van Basra’. Also Rotterdam contemporary dance company Conny Janssen Danst received and honorable mention at the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam for her works LIFE-LIVE! and Zout who were both nominated for the Danspublieksprijs. Besides receiving the prestigious title our artistic director Vraja Sundari Keilman was honored to receive a most beautiful artwork of dancer Ellen Edinoff by dance artist and pioneer Koert Stuyf who is currently holding an exposition of his work at Gallery Serieuze Zaken. You can also now view a short film of this special evening with our speechless founder Vraja interviewed by Rinus at www.danspublieksprijs.nl or on Youtube.
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO SUPPORT US; WE TRULY CAN NOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THIS GIFT, IT REALLY IS A DREAM COME TRUE !!!!
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‘…Bij het nomineren was zo’n 40% van de inzendingen voor Saranágati en Meysam stond onderaan. Bij het nomineren vielen verder op: Conny Janssen Danst, Ghost Track van LeineRoebana, Abdallah, MonterverdISH van ISH en dansfilm Body Language. Bij het stemmen veranderden de verhoudingen aanzienlijk. Tot vrijdag 13 januari 24:00 werd nog flink gestemd en werd die dag geprobeerd een eindsprint te maken. Hieronder volgt een totaaloverzicht met de eindstand.
Just in; due to your vote and amazing support Samadhi has now officially been nominated for the Dutch Danspublieksprijs !!! What a way to start the new year and thanks so very much to everyone who took the time to vote for us !! We truly could not be more honored and grateful for your ongoing support and enthusiasm and we would like to ask everyone who would like to see us win the Danspublieksprijs ( Dutch Dance Prize awarded by the Audience) for the year 2011 to click on the following link www.danspublieksprijs.nl and select Saranágati from the official selection of nominees by clicking on the online form and submitting your vote !! You can vote for us until January 13; the official winner will then be announced a week after the closing date. Thank you so much in advance and we will definitely keep you posted on this amazing news!
On Sunday January 8 Samadhi photographer Peter Vroon will be hosting his latest collection of works in a beautiful exposition at Art Cafe SamSam (Van Kinsbergenstraat 17) in Apeldoorn. The title of the exposition is ‘Alles liep anders‘ (‘Everthing went different’) and his main theme will be movement, progress and his personal experiences during and after his intense operation he had to go through to recover from a cancer diagnose. Peter’s work is known for its vivid use of colors, beautiful compositional elements and the emotion of the moment he manages to capture so wonderfully. The exposition can be viewed until February 5th of this year and more information can be found below or at the following links www.gelrecollectief.nl, www.vroonphotomotion.nl and www.artcafesamsam.nl. Hope to see you there!
Alles liep anders is een overzichtstentoonstelling van Peter Vroon over het jaar 2011.
Het overzicht eindigt na de operatie van Peter. Beweging in de foto’s en voortgang staan centraal. Tegelijkertijd worden op indringende wijze beelden rondom zijn kankeroperatie getoond.
De expositie start op zondag 8 januari 2012 in Artcafé SamSam.
As you probably can imagine next season Samadhi is determined to create some fresh new work and blow you away! We will not share too much too soon but one thing we can already share with our fans is the addition of the highly dynamic breakdancer Liam OCallaghan to the Samadhi Team and what an addition it is! Liam is a self-taught, extremely physical and exceptional talented break-dancer and has performed for many years with the urban fusion dance company ISH, the dance company of the So You Think You Can Dance- jury member Marco Gerris. It was at the production Ego Clash were Samadhi dancer Sarada Sarita Keilman met Liam and it was very apparent that their compatibility and Liam’s qualities were exactly what our artistic director was looking for in search of a new talent for our coming production ‘Mohini’. Liam can be admired in our latest film of our performance at the Ratha Yatra in Cologne with spiritual leaders HH Radhanath Swami and Sacinananda Swami. He has also performed the 2011 version of Bho during the Janmashtami Festival in Radhadesh Belgium and at the benefit event in Den Hague previous September and it already feels as if he has been with us forever. Stay tuned on our latest news as soon more updates will follow featuring news on the other dancers and our fresh new contemporary dance production for 2012 ‘Mohini’!
Next season we will have several new additions to our team including apprentice Maartje Fijen from the Netherlands. Maartje has been a student of Vraja Sundari for years now and is currently in her graduate year of school at the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg. Maartje will be assisting the team backstage as well as observing and following the creative process of Vraja Sundari and the dancers. She is also known for her strong presence and pleasant personality as well as her exceptional performance and improvisational skills. Maartje joined us in August and we are looking forward seeing her back in the studio coming season! For more information on our dancers please visit our Dancers Page which will soon be updated.
