NeveS Company

Company

NeveS

Title of the piece

”Vent litt… La meg forklare”

Artistic Director

Michela Lanteri

Choreography

Martine Bentsen/Michela Lanteri

Performers

Martine Bentsen

Michela Lanteri

Adrìan Dìaz Rodrìguez

Borja Bordonabe Lacunza

Iria Fernández Lumbreras

Music

Sympathy 7

Olafur Arnalds

Christopher Young

Production

Martine Bentsen/Michela Lanteri

NeveS Dance Company

NeveS is a company consisting of dancers with different cultural and dance backgrounds who find unity in the freedom and necessity of moving. The company is based in Madrid and was founded in march 2016. NeveS`s vision is to be a community as a group with equal meaning of intention and expression yet value the indivuality of each and every performer. The style of the NeveS is mainly contemporary inspired by the quality and difference of each dancer.

The ideas for projects and creation of material is a sharing process which starts with improvisation from the different performers and then being created into choreography to make it as real as possible, and to communicate with the audience in a clear manner.

The dancers are Michela Lanteri from Italy, Martine Bentsen from Norway, Adrìan Dìaz Rodrìguez from Spain, Borja Bordonabe Lacunza from Spain, Iria Fernández Lumbreras from Spain.

«Vent litt... La meg forklare»«Vent litt... La meg forklare» is a piece about communication. In english the title means «Wait a moment... Let me explain».

The creation of «Vent litt..La meg forklare» was inspired by the struggle of understanding and being understood in a city where you don`t speak the language. The piece describes the process of going from being insecure and not daring to speak or express yourself, to the misunderstandings while trying to use the limited vocabulary you build up over time. Then how you find a unique way to connect with people based on several

factors.

The process of creating material and brainstorming ideas made it clear how interesting this topic was for us as a group. The lack of any communal spoken language was limiting the way to communicate and the necessity of the corporal expression grew to reach a fellow understanding. Dancers in general communicate through movement and understand better when including body language. No matter which language you speak there is an ancient way of communicating trough posture, facial expressions and the body that is equal to the majority. This piece is about how people, and especially dancers, use the body when words simply are not enough to express what we want to say.

Martine Bentsen

Martine Bentsen was born in Norway and started dancing at KICK dancestudio in Haugesund before she moved to the capital Oslo at the age of 15 to start her studies for a bachelor degree in performing arts at «Oslo National Academy of the Arts». During her studies she has worked with choreographers like Erica Sobol, Masja

Abrahamsen, Anne Grethe Eriksen, Tine Aspaas, Subjazz and Jo Strømgren. She has received two scholarships from Norway to support her carrer as a dancer.

September 2015 she moved to Madrid to start working with the company Carabdanza with the director Gonzalo Diaz. She performed «PDA» by Adam Rutherford and «Skinless» by Gonzalo Diaz and Carolina Marquez in October 2015. In

december the same year she also performed «Cascanuezes» by Gonzalo Diaz. In January 2016 she joined the Elephant in the Black Box Junior Company directed by Jean Philllippe Dury and later joined the EBB Dance Company. She has perfomred both «4 seasons of Vicotria», «Romeo and Juliet», «Le Sacre» with EBB. Recently she won a prize in Talent de Madrid 2016 in the category of dance with the company NeveS as both choreographer and perfomer.

Michela Lanteri

Michela from italy started dancing in Turin, at the dance school Farco Morra.

At 17 years old, she began to work in the company "EFFEMME" Turin and the "IDA COMPANY HIP HOP" in Ravenna.

She has trained with distinguished choreographers, including Francesco Nappa, Mauro Astolfi, Christopher Roman (Forsythe company), Shirley Esseboom (The Nederlands), Daniel Tinazzi, Daniela Paci (theater dance), Loris Petrillo, Daniel Abreu and Jean Philippe Dury.

She traveled to Los Angeles to complete her dance studies. She won first prize in "Weekend in Palcoscenico" and the award crítica, Pinerolo 2007. In 2015 she was part of the company "Plan B" for the "Sibil.la" project choreographed by Arantxa Sagardoy and Alfredo Bravo. With ELEPHANT IN THE BLACK BOX junior company directed by Jean Philippe Dury she performed the piece "MAYHEM" choreographed by Jose Luis Magaña. She was recently the winner of Talent de Madrid 2016 in the category of dance with the company NeveS as both choreographer and performer. Now she is dancing in the Cia Senpu directed and choreographed by Jose Jurado Giles, performing in “sentinel”.

Adrián Díaz Rodríguez

Adrián Díaz Rodríguez was born in Madrid, in 1991. He received two degrees on English and Spanish Studies from UCM and UNED, respectively. He studied in the Arts School Carmen Roche; there he started dancing and took singing and acting lessons. From 2010

to 2015 he studied a Bachelor degree in Contemporary Dance at Real Conservatorio Mariemma, in Madrid.

He continues his studies with Provisional Danza, Carmen Werner’s company, and took workshops with Russell Maliphant, Hofesh Shechter, Jaro Vinarsky, Marco Blázquez, Marko Fonseca (LosInnato), or Maite Larrañeta.

He worked in different projects for Sonia Rodríguez, Sharon Fridman, Lucía Marote, Verónica Garzón, Mónica Runde, Sara Cano, or Gala Vivancos.

Currently, he works as a choreographer, actor and dancer in La Crítica del Amor by Calderón de la Barca; and from 2015, he works as a dancer in Jean Philippe Dury’s Elephant in the Black Box Company.

Iria Fernández Lumbreras

she was born in Vigo where she began her studies of dance, in 2012 when she finish her studies of Bachelor in Science of Physical Activity and Sport. The she moved to Madrid, where she currently perform the professional program in Madrid Dance Center and she complemented her studies realizing different courses in Holand, London, Portugal and at Spanish

In 2014 she joined the dance company Companhia Carmelo Segura in Madrid where she performed 34/35 and Walking City. This play counts with Rob Tannion and Albero Velasco as artistic director together with Carmelo. Thanks to this company she started to dance at national and international level. It also offers her the opportunity to take classes with different teachers and choreographers of great prestigious as Russell Maliphant, Jose Agudo, Dagmara Brown among others. Since 2016 she is also part of Cia. Snepü and Compañía MadriDanza and collaborates whit the Compañia Neves and the dance platform Displaced.

Contact Information

email : michelanteri@gmail.com / martine.bentsen@me.com

telephone: +34 658 166 501 / +47 454 31 694

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