KOMMA with Rohiet Tjon Poen Gie
@ Park
Rohiet Tjon Poen Gie (1990) grew up in Suriname. He is an urban dancer known for his own dance style, using styles such as breaking and popping complemented by other influences. At a very young age, he took lessons in ballet, street dance and hip-hop and travelled abroad to dance and battle. This earned him several awards. In 2009, he decided to make his passion his profession and after studying dance in both Amsterdam and Tilburg, he auditioned for "DOX" and worked with the choreographers like Elvis Sebiko (Black Roots foundation), Giovanni Vreede, Blenard Azizaj (a dancer of Akram Khan Dance Company), Shailesh Bahoran and many others.
He invited Edurne Echaide Lopetegui to do a duet.
Edurne Echaide Lopetegui (ES) started dancing street dance when she was 7 years old and continued to experiment with contemporary dance. In July 2021, she graduated in Fine Arts and obtained a residency at the Utopian Music School to develop her own research. She also started her internships with dance company DOOS Colectivo and is now a dance student at Fontys.
They reacted to the exhibition Is Pas d'Espace by Maud van den Beuken, Loek Grootjans and Margot Zweers. They worked in PARK in week 45 and the performance took place on 13 November.
Saturday 13 November
Park, Tilburg, Netherlands
Rohite: 'I chose to do a duet for this project or piece that is about space because I found it easier to translate than with a solo.
What inspired me was how our human emotions can have an impact on space. Sexual energy, hatred, playfulness. But also how you present yourself and what kind of clothes you have on. Where you stand in space. How you behave in a particular space of which we have certain expectations.
Then there is the element of music, how that affects the space, each track has a different feel and fills the space in a different way.'