With over 80 events and projects, this year's ADE Arts & Culture is about to showcase a vast program of cultural crossovers between multidisciplinary arts and electronic music. Standout initiatives include the dazzling performance piece Within Without II at Royal Theater Carré, mindful art experience Mark to the Music with DJ Marcelle, House of Hope featuring stories by people who have experienced homelessness, a brand new audiovisual program by Nxt Museum x Transmoderna and the unique sounds of 3VIOLAS x Vincent Rang. Moreover, the program hosts a number of crossovers from the worlds of fashion, comedy and photography, alongside expansive film programs at Melkweg Cinema, LAB111 and De School.
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Health and Wellbeing
Mark to the Music - a mindful art experience is a collaboration between Museum van de Geest and Amsterdam Dance Event, focusing on the de-stressing and spiritual power of electronic music and sound through a guided visual meditation. Guided by professional mindfulnesstrainer Jolien Posthumus, and rare electronic, ambient and field recording vinyl selected and played by the iconic DJ Marcelle, you will be taken on a personal journey within during a custom made 60 minute experience.
- House of Hope – The streets shows the way
House of Hope is an immersive club concept in a church. People who have experienced homelessness first-hand will share their real-life stories, accompanied by DJ and producer Mees Dierdorp setting the mood with his compelling and distinctive sound. What does feeling at home mean to you? House of Hope is a spot for you to connect, to feel, to learn and above all: to dance.
Other highlight initiatives include Reflections presents: A live music and meditation experience, The Golden Hour #12 w/ Portrait XO and Where There is Light, a unique safe haven for ravers at Westerkerk.
Innovative Audiovisual Experiences
- WAIVE: Blue pill/red pill
Imagine yourself in the future of music with a unique AI-powered live set that stimulates all your senses: On ADE Wednesday, Borisov hosts a futuristic performance co-created by humans and Artificial Intelligence. DJs spin back-to-back and co-create a never-before-seen live show with an AI system called WAIVE, a system used to create unique samples, beats and visuals from the Dutch archives.
Remember the infamous Orbiter from last year's Awakenings at ADE? This is your chance to experience the installation up close in a multidisciplinary performance piece at Royal Theatre Carré — there is even a special late-night, ADE-ready showing of the event as the perfect kickoff to your ADE Wednesday night...
Other highlights include Nxt Museum x Transmoderna present: AiR, Bits & Pieces and 24classics presents: 3VIOLAS x Vincent Rang, a one-off collaboration that features the synthesised sounds of a live tree.
- ADE Arts & Culture — Health and Wellbeing
- Mark to the Music – a mindful art experience (1/2)
Mark to the Music – a mindful art experience (1/2)
Mark to the Music- a mindful art experience is a collaboration between Museum van de Geest | Outsider Art and Amsterdam Dance Event, focusing on the de-stressing and spiritual power of electronic music and sound through a guided visual meditation. Be a part of the unique 60 minute experience at Museum van de Geest | Outsider Art, located in the Hermitage Amsterdam.
Guided by professional mindfulnesstrainer, key supporter of mindfulness practice in museums and program manager mental health at Museum van de Geest Jolien Posthumus, and rare electronic, ambient and field recording vinyl selected and played by the iconic DJ Marcelle, you will be taken on a personal journey within.
Drop into these multi-sensory and intuitive form of drawing session using mindfulness-based techniques. Discover your inner space by sounds, color & open awareness. The meditation takes place in a quiet environment, invites you to stay in silence and provides enough space to not be bothered by other participants.
With this program Museum van de Geest and ADE aim to highlight the positive impact of art and music on mental health. Electronic music is taken out of the dancefloor context and integrated in a proven meditation practice. You can be one of the few people to experience this unique collision.
There are 2 timeslots available to be chosen in the ticketshop. All supplies to participate are provided. Maybe you would like to wear comfortable clothes, whatever works for you. Come as you are Drawing experience not necessary. After the meditation you are free to visit the Outsider Art Museum.
Come and settle down on one of Yogisha's meditation cushions.
- House of Hope - The street shows the way
House of Hope - The street shows the way
House of Hope is an immersive club concept in a church. People who have experienced homelessness first-hand will share their real-life stories, accompanied by DJ and producer Mees Dierdorp setting the mood with his compelling and distinctive sound. Protestant Church Netherlands (PKN), Homebass, Dominicus Amsterdam and Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), are joining forces to present to you: House of Hope.
The number of people who don’t have a home or homeland is growing. What does feeling at home mean to you? House of Hope is a spot for you to connect, to feel, to learn and above all: to dance. Let the street show you the way and discover what makes you feel like home.
LINE-UP
Paboona
Mees Dierdorp
Julien Simmons
OUR STORYTELLERS
Dominicus Church Pastor Arjan Broers will introduce our storytellers: Chicha “The Drummer”, Grace Workala, Jacques Vedel Du Boisbaudry and Sonja Groot Obbink. These remarkable and inspiring people have experienced both the brutality of life on the street and the freedom of letting go of material possessions, schedules and status.
THE CLUB IN A CHURCH
The artistic gathering will be held at the neo-gothic Dominicus Church in the heart of Amsterdam. Clubs and churches have more in common than you might think. Both scenes feel like a true ‘home’ for people, places where people find meaning, connection and warmth. The church as spiritual dance floor.
FOR WHO?
House of Hope is for music fans, nightcrawles, DJs and anyone seeking connection and more meaning in life, regardless of faith, origin, age or orientation. The event joins the movement #WijMakenPlek by also welcoming undocumented migrants, homeless people and others who often don’t have access to concerts or the dance floor.
While the spoken word will be in Dutch, the music will convey the message in a language that is universal and transcends words. We’ll look after both the soul and the body by serving free pancakes for everyone so you can keep on dancing.
- Reflections presents: A live music and meditation experience with Jessie Marcella & Kat Pither
Reflections presents: A live music and meditation experience with Jessie Marcella & Kat Pither
Launched in May 2022, Reflections is Anjunadeep’s sister imprint and the third label under the Anjuna umbrella. Founded by two-time GRAMMY-nominated trio Above & Beyond and based in South London, Reflections is Anjuna’s new home for ambient, downtempo and alternative electronic music.
On 21st October, Reflections will make its Amsterdam debut, hosting an intimate live music and meditation experience as part of the ADE Arts & Culture program. For this hour-long session, Reflections invited Yogi Bare founder Kat Pither to lead a unique guided meditation, accompanied by a live performance from one of Reflections’ most exciting new talents, Jessie Marcella. Performing music from her latest label release ‘Untitled’, Jessie will perform an ambient electronic set with live clarinet.“
Our two record labels, Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep were born on the dancefloor. For over 20 years these labels have taken us, our music, and our artists, to dancefloors across the world. The third Anjuna record label is our new downtempo and ambient imprint called Reflections, and we are delighted to share it with you. Reflections is born from all those moments in between the dancefloors - the mornings after, the nights apart, the journeys shared along the way. Those moments of Reflection.” - Above & Beyond
Hailing from Leeds, British composer and producer Jessie Marcella joined the Reflections family earlier this year with her EP ‘Untitled’. Classically trained on the clarinet, Jessie fuses together both live and electronic instrumentation in her work. In recent years Jessie has honed her craft. Her compositions are melancholic, deeply emotive, and entirely captivating. Ranging from atmospheric soundscape to ambient electronica, her sound has led to support from BBC Radio 1 and BBC Introducing.
- The Golden Hour #12 w/ Portrait XO
Welcome to The Golden Hour, that moment in time when the sun passes the horizon and floods the air with a warm and soothing light. The Golden Hour marks a counterpoint in every day, providing us with new perspectives and insights.In this time and space, we connect people through a deep listening experience. Each session, we invite extraordinary artists to share the music most meaningful to them. Listening to these tracks and uncovering the stories behind them, we get a better understanding of our guest's motives and musical journey.
For this edition we have Portrait XO as our guest. She is a singer, songwriter, producer and an interactive installation artist. In her work she uses experimental approaches to writing, researching computational creativity and human-machine collaboration. An example is her co-creating of lyrics with an artificial intelligent version of her voice and performing together as a ‘neural vocal duet’.
We are curious to hear stories from such a forward-thinking artist and listen to pieces of music she holds dear.
The session will consist of a showcase by Portrait XO and The Golden Hour (interview+listening session).
Doors open at 14h30 and the session will start at 15h.
Villa Bui
The need to recalibrate, reflect, and center mental wellness after uncertain years drove artist Tamara Shogaolu to develop WHERE THERE IS LIGHT. Inspired by the practice of forest bathing and by the Panamanian rainforest, WHERE THERE IS LIGHT is an interactive installation that merges mental wellness with nature through technology by allowing visitors to immerse themselves in a rainforest.
Through WHERE THERE IS LIGHT we hope to create a space where we can surrender to calmness and focus on our senses as a way to be present in the moment without the grief of what was and the fear of what could have been.Visitors will be able to explore the rainforest lidar data projections at their own pace and interact with the space through movement and breath with the forest reacting to their movements and breathing. The visuals will be paired with a sound installation of sound recording in the rainforest in Panama over a 24hr cycle. The visuals and sounds will be constantly changing from day to night, providing visitors a different experience depending on the time of day of their visit. The installation will run over the course of five days at the central ADE hub and iconic church Westerkerk. This experience will be free and open to the public with the ultimate hope of motivating all of us to take a moment during our days to connect with nature and ultimately protect the sacred spaces that are rainforests.
The installation is commissioned by Amsterdam Dance Event.
ADE Arts & Culture — Innovative Experiences
- Nxt Museum x Transmoderna present: AiR
Nxt Museum x Transmoderna present: AiR
After 2 years of stomping reunions with the dancefloor, Nxt Museum and ADE are back again to bring you 3 nights of audiovisual dance culture. Joining forces with Transmoderna, a digital art and electronic music collective co-founded by world renowned DJ Dixon, get ready for a multi-dimensional dance experience immersed in 370sqm of pulsating pixels and the latest in upcoming electronic music talent. This year’s Artist in Residence programme supports and joins together local and international talent, guiding creatives to bring forth specially commissioned digital artworks matched with live DJ performances. Blast off to digital realms of light, sound and dance as your senses awaken to the light of the night.
This year, Nxt Museum is partnering with Vertical Crypto Art (VCA) to bring IRL experiences to the blockchain by capturing memorable moments of our ADE performances through live minting tech – across the 3 day programme. In addition, Nxt Museum and VCA are launching an NFT sale of limited editions by musicians & visual artists from this year’s programme. Find more information here
Lineup:
Music:
Sarkawt Hamad
Nsasi
Dixon
Visual art:
Transmoderna
Giusy Amoroso
Aaron Jablonski
Transmoderna is a hybrid collective situated at the intersection of electronic music and digital arts. Alongside a multi-disciplinary team of new media artists, co-founders DJ Dixon and creative director Ana Ofak cross-breed competencies of the music industry, VR cinematography, and game development. The outcomes disrupt the ordinary.
Nxt Museum, the home of new media art, is the first museum in the Netherlands dedicated to art, technology, science and sound. It exhibits and commissions ambitious, large-scale new media art installations born of interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, designers, technologists, sound builders and scientists. The programme is led by Nxt Museum's founding mission to seek, show and question what’s next.
The Artist in Residence programme is a collaboration between Nxt Museum and the Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation, which provides a space for experimentation and high level performance on the borders of art and electronic music.
Images: SURVIVAL RUSH by Guillaume Roux and sound by Hyperaktivist; LABYRINTH by Sam Madhu and sound by Lyzza, commissioned by Nxt Museum and supported by supported by ADE Arts & Culture. Photos: Maarten Nauw.
- WAIVE: blue pill/red pill
You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
On Wednesday 19 October, ADE opens with a unique live experience, co-created by DJs and Artificial Intelligence. Imagine yourself in the future of music with a unique AI-powered live set that stimulates all your senses.
DJs spin back-to-back with an AI system and co-create a never-before-seen live show. WAIVE is the AI system that is used to create unique samples, beats and visuals from the Dutch archives. Thunderboom Records and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision have jointly developed the WAIVE system, with support from the Mondriaan Fund.
FREE ENTRY
In Within Without II, artist Nick Verstand examines our subconscious by light art, music and modern dance. The performance symbolizes the transformation of the self through different stadia. Let yourself be transported into a dream world of light and darkness, sound and space.
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” ― Carl Gustav Jung
Verstand joins forces with Sedrig Verwoert (choreographer & dancer), Wanderwelle (music), Wes Broersen (interaction designer), Marijn Cinjee (music & sound design), Jasmine Karimova and Pitou (vocals). Together with Reina Trifunović, Alanna Archibald, Comfort Kondehson, Winter Wieringa and Adam Russel-Jones, Verwoert will provide the performance with dance - a three dimensional pas de deux included.
On the 19th of October, the new performance Within Without II is to be seen exclusively in Carré as the opening event of ADE, as part of the Arts & Culture program. The first edition of the audiovisual liveshow in 2021 was visited by thousands of people.
- 24classics presents: 3VIOLAS x Vincent Rang
24classics is a classical music discovery service. By seeking new alliances and breaking boundaries and we are making classical music new. For ADE we have combined two different worlds in the iconic central building of the Zuiderkerk. The collaboration between 3VIOLAS and Vincent Rang will take you into a mesmerizing hypnotic world.
In this new audio-visual alliance the boundaries of minimal music, nature and art will be pushed. They combine, get ready for it, sounds from a live tree composed into a minimal music piece for 3 violas with a scenography by Vincent Rang. His slowly evolving underwater landscapes, created in an aquarium, will take you into a different world. The result will be a unique experience in which many worlds collide.
Vincent Rang (1989) is an experimental visual artist working primarily with moving image as a medium. He believes in the power of moving image and audio as a door into another world. He explores themes of scale, time experience, natural patters and symbiosis with audio.
His gaze is often directed towards the natural dances of life. He observes, captures and re-arranges these various patterns, from wind patterns, water currents, blooming flowers, landscapes and rock formations, to create abstract audio-visual experiences, offering the viewer enough space to find their own truth and interpretation in the work, and most importantly, to feel them.
His latest ongoing project ‘Pillars Of Creation’ focuses around a water-filled aquarium in which he creates a live choreography using various materials such as inks, plants and light, which he captures with a macro camera and then projects it on a large screen, creating mesmerizing larger than life living paintings. This project led to the creating of Home, a live audio-visual show which he performed in Het muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ and the Nxt Museum.
Hessel Moeselaar, Floris Faber & Geerten Feller are 3VIOLAS. An unconventional, dynamic ensemble based in Amsterdam. Influenced and inspired by classical, pop, minimal, electronic, and film music, 3VIOLAS pursues an adventurous path by deconstructing and combining musical genres. Ever since their formation in 2015, 3VIOLAS has increasingly been gaining attention in the Dutch music scene. 3VIOLAS is a regular guest at the Amsterdam Grachtenfestival, Uitmarkt, Ruigklassiek, and The Royal Concertgebouw. In 2019, 3VIOLAS became Artist in Residence at VondelCS in Amsterdam. This is the so-called Media-Culture lab of the AVROTROS. Here they launched a meditative series of concerts called MINDVIOLNESS. 3VIOLAS can also be found more "underground" in musical collaborations with organizations such as Talking Trees and Classical Music Rave. 3VIOLAS creates a unique sound by programming both their own compositions and improvisations and music by other artists and composers.
Dutch Composers NOW presents border-crossing experimental, minimal, Electro-Acoustic, Contemporary Classical live performances by Orphax, Goska Isphording & Trio Konstantinidou, Rosa, La Berge. Bits & Pieces is curated by composer David Dramm.
Doors: 19.45 hr
Start: 20.30 hr
Orphax“I make music that buzzes in your head.” Under his Orphax-moniker, Sietse van Erve wields his minimalist music as a stream-of-consciousness manifestation, forging sound from electronic and acoustic instruments, other people’s compositions morphed beyond recognition and/or lo-fi droning loops. An Orphax performance prompts the listener to expand their own headspace to awesome, uncharted domains. van Erve is also founder of the cutting edge label Moving Furniture.Sietse van Erve - ElectronicsTrio
Konstantinidou, Rosa, La Berge (electronics, visuals, improv)Performing as a trio especially for ADE, these three multi-disciplinary mavericks work at the extreme boundaries of sound, image and text. Environmental soundscapes and fragmented language of Fani Konstantinidou, the captivating visuals and mesmerizing sound textures of Tatiana Rosa meet the ferocious and far-reaching virtuosity of experimental music and flute pioneer La Berge. This promises to be an unique and special contribution to ADE.Fani KonstantinidouTatiana RosaAnne La Berge
Goska Isphording plays 'hout karton papier en verf' by Janco VerduinThe highly energetic and hypnotic music of Janco Verduin combines minimalism, techno and trance influences and rich, organically growing forms inspired by nature. The Dutch premiere of his ‘hout karton papier en verf’ (wood cardboard paper and paint) will be performed by harpsichordist Goska Isphording, a revolutionary on her instrument. Goska's work extends far beyond the traditional classical repertoire and she performs in prestigious festivals and concert halls around the world. You’ll never hear the harpsichord the same way again! Goska Isphoring - HarpiscordJanco Verduin – composition & soundtrack
The performances will be streamed on
newmusicnow.nl, the digital platform for New Music.
Cultural Crossovers
Fashion is about conveying desire. Vanderwilt desires to design leathers that will gently intertwine with you. To create a second skin. An adaptive layer enabling you to transcend convention. Propelling you to tread wherever you fancy. Vanderwilt will be exhibiting leather outfits as seen on stage with the likes of Dave Clarke, David Guetta, Sandra St.Victor and many more, including their latest project for Maxime Duvall who will perform ‘Creatures of the night’ in the Vanderwilt store.
The Elusive Self - Part 1 - by MC de Waal
TORCH Gallery presents The Elusive Self, a one-week-only exhibition by MC de Waal during Amsterdam Dance Event. This collaborative and multidisciplinary project is centered around a leather suit, the result of an extensive search for the right designers and materials. The outfit represents the ideal image of an assertive amazon that the artist has fantasized about since childhood.
Worn by a lifelike wax statue, the suit becomes a disorienting statement piece. The v-shaped silhouette and corresponding photographs of the three basic geometric shapes refer to two kindred spirits of De Waal from a different time: German singer and performer Klaus Nomi and German artist and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer, who regarded his costumes for the mathematical choreography of the Triadisches Ballett (1922) as 'walking architecture'.
Also on view will be documentation of a performance done by De Waal in the suit, to the new Italo disco song Creatures of the Night by her alter ego Maxime Duvall. The exhibition is completed by a new triptych of paintings by the Rotterdam collective KAMP HORST inspired by the song.
About the artist
Having always worked on the crossroads between photography, performance, music, fashion and the club scene, De Waal is a seamless fit with ADE. Years of modeling taught her how to use the body as a means of expression. Publicly pushing the boundaries of self-alteration, she deals with the concepts of human identity and the constructible man.
Rotterdam artist collective KAMP HORST is known for its intense paintings with comic-like
compositions, depicting absurd humour and strange combinations of persons, animals and objects.
Collaborators:
KAMP HORST: paintings
Vanderwilt & MC de Waal: leather suit design
Italo Connection: Creaters of the Night remix
Silas Schletterer & Maxime Duvall: soundscape
Wessel Haaxman: performance video
The culture is essential in the House and Club landscape. It’s rooted in black culture, queerness, underground spaces, and liberated bodies. Rooted in Culture liberates through movement, education, and culture. Get inspiration from 2 Housedancers who have their roots in the dutch club culture Dro & Zev while Lynnee Denise will guide you through the history of House and Disco music with sound and video samples.
Other highlights include dance performances including Amsterdam Housedance Comunity X ADE Special and If You Could See Me Now, exhibitions including Sweet Harmony at Het HEM and GOD IS A DJ EXPO at Beurs van Berlage, as well as the comedy program at Boom Chicago with events such as the Musical Improv Spectacular ft. Sunnery James.
- Sweet Harmony: OUT OF THE UNDERGROUND
Sweet Harmony – Out of the Underground shows works by artists who come from rave culture or are inspired by it in their practice. Their artistic expressions touch upon the spiritual and mythical aspects
of rave as well as rave as a space for (queer) play and resistance. Sweet Harmony exposes the emergence of rave culture worldwide, while highlighting the artistic heritage of the Dutch club culture.
The Amsterdam nightclub RoXY, the Gabber halls of Rotterdam, and the Zaandam venues De Waakzaamheid and Hemkade 48 played a significant role in the development of acid house and gabber
throughout the ‘90s.
Taking place in the underground shooting range of the former bullet factory in Zaandam, Sweet Harmony aims to captures the energy of a rave party, while simultaneously shifting focus from the music towards the visual art practices that emerged from it. The exhibition brings together newly commissioned and iconic artworks of more than 40 artists and collectives, capturing the intensity of rave and its social and political resonance.
- Musical Improv Spectacular feat. Sunnery James - ADE Special
Every Wednesday, come watch a Musical Improv Comedy show that is unscripted and unique each time! Expect an uplifting blend of comedy and music in each show.
Buckle up for a night of laughter, dance, and song to satisfy your musical comedy needs! The show revolves around a fascinating guest storyteller who inspires the Boom cast. This becomes a starting point for original, improvised scenes and spontaneous songs based on their stories.
During this ADE Special our special guest is Sunnery James. Sunnery is half of the world renowned DJ/producer duo Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano. As a duo they have been traveling the world for years rocking the biggest clubs and festivals. They also run record label SONO music and will launch their debut album this month. Before choosing a career as a performer Sunnery was aiming to be a pro footballer having spend time in the youth academy of Ajax and Chelsea before an injury made him quit football. Besides that Sunnery has two beautiful kids with Doutzen Kroes
- Amsterdam Housedance Community X ADE Special
Every Friday the Amsterdam Housedance Community hosts its weekly classes and jam sessions at Solid Ground Movement (Tolhuistuin). During ADE the community Friday will be a special one. We will start the evening with the documentary ‘Come As You Are’. A film by Amy Secada about the Garage/Loft era of House music in NYC. After the film, Kim Tawjoeram and Gino Jagessar will teach a Housedance workshop, focusing on the social aspect of Housedance. After the class, you're invited to the dancefloor where DJ Revé will provide us with warm and uplifting tunes. Powered by Solid Ground Movement
TIMETABLE
19:00-19:45 > Film screening ‘Come As You Are’
20:00-21:30 > Housedance workshop Kim Tawjoeram & Gino Jagessar
21:30-23:30 > Jam Session with DJ Revé
LOCATION
Solid Ground Movement (ground floor of the Tolhuistuin)
Access is free!
Art can be every bit as immersive as moving your body to the vibration of a beat on the dance floor. To prove this point, House for Contemporary Culture Het HEM, located in an impressive industrial building on the edge of Amsterdam, is presenting Arno Schuitemaker’s performance If You Could See Me Now.
Three performers reshape a chilled-out club dance into a mesmerizing wave-like motion until everything morphs into one big chunk of energy. At maximal and sweaty exertion, their incessant movement flow reinvents itself through luminous, ever-changing impressions. Seemingly casual yet with great precision, If You Could See Me Now urges another, closer look.
Arno Schuitemaker created the performance against the backdrop of a rapidly changing reality to interrogate how to deal with things when they no longer are the way they were. How do we shift and realign our focus? How to keep going and move forward? From ecstasy to turmoil, from a meticulous build-up to its fracturing, If You Could See Me Now goes right to the core of a transformative perspective.
about Arno SchuitemakerThrough a rigorous integration of movement, light, and electronic music, Arno Schuitemaker, based in Amsterdam, creates performances one has to experience. His contemporary works immerse the audience, each in their unique way. Rooted in the pages of his diary, they transform into hyperphysical and embodied meditations on life, and, consequently, the way we (can) engage with the world. The performances receive praise for the inventive forms that Arno creates to express and give meaning to universal themes. They have been presented at renowned venues and contemporary performing arts festivals in more than 25 countries.
credits
Concept and creation: Arno Schuitemaker
Performers: Stein Fluijt, Ivan Ugrin, Mark Christoph Klee
Dramaturgy: Guy Cools
Music composition: Wim Selles
Lighting design: Vinny Jones
Costumes: Inge de Lange
Event photo: Krunoslav Marinac
If You Could See Me Now is a production by SHARP/ArnoSchuitemaker in coproduction with HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste (Dresden, Germany), O Espaço Do Tempo -
Associação Cultura (Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal), CN D Centre national de la danse (Pantin, France), KLAP Maison pour la danse (Marseille, France) and Tafelhalle im KunstKulturQuartier (Nuremberg, Germany). The performance is created with contributions by Performing Arts Fund NL, Fonds 21, VSBfonds, and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
The culture is essential in the House and Club landscape. It’s rooted in black culture, queerness, underground spaces, and liberated bodies. During Rooted in Culture we liberate through movement, education, and culture. Together with the dutch Housedance community and Lynnee Denise, we focus on getting food for thought and soul.
Get inspiration from 2 Housedancers who have their roots in the dutch club culture Dro & Zev. While Lynnee Denise will guide you through the history of House and Disco music with sound and video samples. After the talk with Lynnee Denise we bring the heat to the dancefloor with the DJ collectives: Chill on Tuesday and House the Vibe.
TIMETABLE
16:00-17:30 > Housedance workshop Dro & Zev
18:00-18:30 > Walk in
18:30-20:30 > Talk by Lynnee Denise: Disco en House music as Gender Liberation
20:30-23:00 > Jam Session with Chill on Tuesday & House the Vibe
Films and Documentaries
LAB111
LAB111 hosts their CLUBBING AT THE CINEMA series throughout the ADE week, exploring nightlife, music and club culture with a varied selection of thought-provoking contemporary films and high energy classics. With 12 screenings on schedule, you'll be able to visit the cinema and immerse yourself in club culture almost at any given time of day during ADE. Highlight films include Gaspar Noé's Climax, Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and 120 Battements Par Minute by French director Robin Campillo.
Wednesday, October 19
Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be.
Two best friends in a small Scottish town in the summer of '94 who head out for one last night together before life takes them in different directions. Going to an illegal rave, the boys journey into an underworld of anarchy, freedom and collision with the law as they share a night that they will never forget.
Thursday, October 20
A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
- 120 Battements Par Minute
In the early 1990s, with AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly 10 years, ACT UP Paris activists multiply actions to fight general indifference. Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has his world shaken up by Sean, a radical militant, who throws his last bits of strength into the struggle.
Winner of the Grand Prix and Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, BPM (#BeatsPerMinute) is the exhilarating and passionate new film from Robin Campillo (The Returned, Eastern Boys).
Friday, October 21
120 Battements Par Minute
A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them.
Victoria
Saturday, October 22
In the mid 1990's, 20 French urban dancers join together for a three-day rehearsal in a closed-down boarding school located at the heart of a forest to share one last dance. They then make one last party around a large sangria bowl. Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it's soon impossible for them to resist to their neuroses and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rhythm of the music. While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell.
Trainspotting (1996)
Sunday, October 23
Beats
Climax
24 Hour Party People
Melkweg Cinema
As if the chock-full week program with club nights and live performances in their main venue wasn't enough, Melkweg is also hosting a number of film showings during ADE at Melkweg Cinema. Highlight films include The Rumba Kings, Do You Own the Dançefloor? about Manchester's legendary night club Haçienda, and a live score of the 1927 film Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City.
Wednesday, 19 October
After the Dutch premiere in May at the Africadelic Festival, we are screening the film The Rumba Kings together with Africadelic one more time on the big screen, an award-winning documentary about the history of Congolese rumba.
Thursday, 20 October
- Do You Own the Dançefloor? + Talk
Manchester's legendary nightclub Haçienda closed its doors in 1997. It was knocked down and sold off in 2000 to make way for a block of apartments and, after demolition, parts of the club were auctioned off for charity. 'Do You Own the Dançefloor?' tells the story of the auction and what happened to the bricks, toilets and dance floor of this iconic club, featuring the likes of Liam Gallagher of Oasis and Peter Hook of Joy Division/New Order. After the film, there will be an online talk with director Chris Hughes in honour of the club's 40th anniversary.
Friday, 21 October
- Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City (1927) - Live Score
David Dorad and Kuriose Naturale (Bar25, Sasomo, Kater Blau) head to our Cinema for a unique new live score to 'Berlin: die Symphonie der Großstadt' from 1927! Life in the big city is the theme of this classic silent film by Walter Ruttmann. Connected at a fast pace and associatively, the images show the course of a 24-hour day in pre-war Berlin. Ruttmann's 'symphony' is one of the first documentaries. Its emphasis on the rhythm of editing was revolutionary in those days.
- ClubKultur Berlin: Beyond Sound (2022)
After the premiere of ClubKultur Berlin last year at ADE at Melkweg Cinema, this night we dive back into Berlin's club culture with a shorter version of the film and the new short film Beyond Sound. After the films, with some guests from the Berlin club scene, we look back at the film made in pandemic times and at the situation now.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has been considered the superlative of the club scene. With the pandemic, an industry and subculture, along with their income, and almost taboo-free retreats and colorful personalities, have disappeared. Will there be a return, and if so, what new form of CLUB CULTURE will emerge? What influence does the dying of the clubs have on the mental health of those for whom clubs were not just for celebrating, but also a place of work or space where they could live out lust and vice in a value-free manner? The directors Leonie Gerner & Andrea Schumacher have produced a critical, fast-paced documentary. A documentation in which club operators, musicians, DJs and psychologists have their say, and previously unpublished footage from the clubs can be shown.
This short film draws a line between being a dj and dealing with elementary Life setbacks. The German DJs Heimlich Knüller and Madmotormiquel take us through their lives as Producers and DJs in Berlin. They dive deep into the beginnings of one of the biggest festivals "Fusion" and open the door into Berlin's famous Clubculture. Where Clubculter was born, why festivals influenced the Clubscene in Berlin and how it feels to grow old in that industry. The portrait was produced right before Covid hit the world.
Saturday, 22 October
- Legowelt: Ambient Trip Commander (2022) - Live Score
Ambient Trip Commander is the first feature animation film made by electro legend Danny Wolfers aka Legowelt. The animation, in which Wolfers’ paintings come to life, is hand drawn, frame-by-frame, using vibrant watercolors and is the achievement of a laborious process which took 18 months to accomplish. The original soundtrack was created by Wolfers himself, which he will perform live this evening.
Sunday, 23 October
- Yacht: The Computer Accent (2022) + Live: puntjudith
In this new music documentary by Riel Roch-Decter and Sebastian Pardo the boundary-pushing pop group YACHT tackles the greatest challenge of their career: inviting Artificial Intelligence into their creative process. As cutting-edge technology collides with their DIY sensibilities, the band struggles to understand the future of music—and their place within it.
Before the film, you can watch the new short film 'Lawines' by the Dutch electronic pop act puntjudith and director Vincent Tilanus. Singer Judith Rijsenbrij will play some songs live and talk a bit about her work, the film she made and about the themes of main film and how they have similarities with her own making process.
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