Good [Old] Times
2016A work for seventeen performers aged 56 to 80, co-created with Isabelle Chaffaud and co-produced by Holland Dance Festival and Grey Vibes.
06 · Archive
Productions & press.
A working archive of performances, critical reception and the contexts through which the work travelled.
Selected histories
This archive places the former Meyer–Chaffaud company period within a wider multidisciplinary journey.
It is not a complete chronology. It brings together works for which visual or critical material currently survives, while leaving room for the archive to grow.
W(o)men
2013A full-length work for four performers that disassembles gendered codes through theatricality, humour and physical intensity.
Imagine
2011A multimedia triptych made with Isabelle Chaffaud and Marcus Graf, using wireless sensors and real-time video mapping.
Production index
The work through its reception.
Open a production to access selected reviews. The original documents remain in their source language; the downloadable catalogue provides English editorial summaries.
01SOUL
2017–2019A cycle in which audience, performers and choreographers continually redistribute authorship. Participation becomes choreographic material rather than an added social gesture.
SOUL
2017–2019A cycle in which audience, performers and choreographers continually redistribute authorship. Participation becomes choreographic material rather than an added social gesture.
02Corps à Corps
2005–2006An intimate duet about proximity, dependency and difference. Two bodies test how a relationship can remain connected without dissolving individual perception.
Corps à Corps
2005–2006An intimate duet about proximity, dependency and difference. Two bodies test how a relationship can remain connected without dissolving individual perception.
03Kamerdans
2006–2007Seventy-two performances in private living rooms across South Africa, the United States and the Netherlands. Choreography leaves the theatre and enters domestic space.
Kamerdans
2006–2007Seventy-two performances in private living rooms across South Africa, the United States and the Netherlands. Choreography leaves the theatre and enters domestic space.
04Diable au Corps
2008Five restless bodies move through hunger, identity and refusal. Physical urgency is placed against silence, slowness and a stark theatrical environment.
Diable au Corps
2008Five restless bodies move through hunger, identity and refusal. Physical urgency is placed against silence, slowness and a stark theatrical environment.
05Compass for Fools
2004A poetic journey through attachment and disorientation. Threads, embraces and abrupt encounters turn the search for another person into spatial composition.
Compass for Fools
2004A poetic journey through attachment and disorientation. Threads, embraces and abrupt encounters turn the search for another person into spatial composition.
06Trans-figure-action / Trans-fields
2010Movement, music, light and computer animation form a responsive field. The body is approached simultaneously as performer, image and generator of change.
Trans-figure-action / Trans-fields
2010Movement, music, light and computer animation form a responsive field. The body is approached simultaneously as performer, image and generator of change.
07Short
2013Created for Introdans’ youth programme Bont en Blauw, the work uses visual transformation, illusion and precise physical timing to reorganise how bodies are perceived.
Short
2013Created for Introdans’ youth programme Bont en Blauw, the work uses visual transformation, illusion and precise physical timing to reorganise how bodies are perceived.
08Le jeune homme et la mort
2013A critical re-situation of the canonical ballet, created for Here We Live and Now. Historical reference becomes material to question rather than reproduce.
Le jeune homme et la mort
2013A critical re-situation of the canonical ballet, created for Here We Live and Now. Historical reference becomes material to question rather than reproduce.
09With Love from Zürich
2014A commissioned work for the inaugural Bachelor Contemporary Dance programme at Zurich University of the Arts, combining an extreme musical collage, live voice and audience proximity.
With Love from Zürich
2014A commissioned work for the inaugural Bachelor Contemporary Dance programme at Zurich University of the Arts, combining an extreme musical collage, live voice and audience proximity.
Press resource
Read the complete English catalogue.
Forty-five press documents organised by production, with English summaries, translated excerpts where legible, and direct links to the original sources.