NEW IMZ MEMBER: Hofesh Shechter Company
Let's welcome Hofesh Shechter Company to the IMZ Network, a boundary-breaking dance company, based in the UK!
Founded in 2008, Hofesh Shechter Company is a boundary-breaking dance company, based in the UK. Our work is created by Artistic Director Hofesh Shechter and can be seen in major European cities, Canada, USA and beyond.
We believe that dance can prod and poke and tap into our deepest emotions; an instinctive, deep-rooted part of ourselves that we rarely access in modern life. We dance to know what it feels like, not just to live, but to be alive. In all our work, we strive to move ourselves, and our audiences, beyond reason. We celebrate and inspire the freedom of the human spirit through dance and travel the world with our extraordinary company of internationally diverse dancers, breaking boundaries and releasing the visceral power that lies beyond the conscious mind.
Our company repertoire includes Uprising (2006), In your rooms (2007), The Art of Not Looking Back (2009), Political Mother (2010), Political Mother: The Choreographer’s Cut (2011), Sun (2013), barbarians (2015) and Grand Finale (2017), with SHOW (2018) and POLITICAL MOTHER UNPLUGGED (2020) performed by Shechter II, our apprentice programme. Hofesh Shechter’s new creation Double Murder (2021), will continue touring into 2022 alongside LIGHT: Bach Dances (2021).
For film, Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns (2020), was presented globally online and won Best International Short Dance Film at CHOREOSCOPE – The International Dance Film Festival of Barcelona. Hofesh Shechter’s iconic stage work Political Mother exploded onto the screen as an UNPLUGGED, unapologetic and exhilarating new short film. Filmed during lockdown and performed by Shechter II, a new generation of exciting world-class dancers and set against a backdrop of Shay Hamias’ animations and Shechter’s cinematic score.
YOU MIGHT ALSO BE INTERESTED IN...
Young Euro Classic from the Konzerthaus Berlin
EuroArts Music International
The Young Euro Classic Orchestra Germany-France-Russia performs Fauré, Prokofiev and Beethoven
This was the IMZ Year 2021
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Learn about all IMZ activities, events and initiatives for the performing arts film industry in our 60 anniversary in the IMZ Activity Report 2021!
New Year’s Eve live from the Philharmonie Berlin
EuroArts Music International
Celebrate New Year's Eve with one of the best orchestras in the world: The Berliner Philharmoniker & Kirill Petrenko welcome violinist Janine Jansen
Chucho Valdés & La Creación
Auditorium Films
As energetic and inspired as ever, Chucho Valdés presents La Creación, an epic work that traces the emergence of Yoruba culture in the Caribbean.