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<h1>VENTURA DANCE COMPANY | ABSTRACT COMPOSITIONS AND DANCE-DRAMA PRODUCTIONS | FORMED FROM PABLO VENTURA FROM ZUERICH SWITZERLAND</h1>
VENTURA DANCE COMPANY
The Ventura Dance Company was founded in 1986 in London by the Spanish dancer and choreographer Pablo Ventura and the Swiss dancer Arlette Kunz. After two years, the Company moves to Madrid, and in 1993 to Zurich. Twenty choreographic works and four dance videos has been created since the formation of the company.
In 1996 Pablo Ventura turns his attention to the choreography software „Life Forms“. He tries to find out, whether this revoultionary new tool can lead to new possibilities of expression in dance. In rapid succession he creates „Deus ex Machina“ (1997), „MADGOD“ (1999), „MADGOD 2.001“ (2000), „ZONE“ (2001) and „De Humani“ (2002). Works that bring with each new experience a hightened emotionality in dance: based on abstraction, the new possibilities of creation of movements increases while at the same time the interpretation of this new language born in the computer must be learnt anew. In 2001 time is ready for a choreography for six dancers... and two industrial robots (ZONE).
This new dance is accompanied by a highly developed aesthetic of the setting. Partly the stage is virtual, built of video images. An interactivity of movement, video and sound guides the pieces with an ever present electronic music score which evokes a distant urban atmosphere.
The pieces aim to reflect the human condition in postmodernity. They can be seen as a reflection, without a message, on the topic of ‚man and machine‘. The human body – as the most advanced instrument of expression – set in the context of it‘s spreading technical surroundings.
In this enterprise Ventura Dance Company has had the generous support of the Präsidialdepartement of the city of Zurich, Pro Helvetia, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Migros Kulturprozent, and other sponsors in Switzerland.
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