Pia Meuthen
Pia Meuthen has worked as a freelance choreographer since 1998 and founded Panama Pictures in 2002 to (co)produce her own work. She made her way through production houses such as Productiehuis Brabant and Dansateliers. She is one of the Brabant-based makers who has managed to stay in the picture and connect with a national circuit for more than 20 years. Her performance Unmade Beds was nominated for the VSCD Dance Award in 2005. Her work has also been invited several times to international festivals and competitions and has been selected for dance networks such as Aerowaves and Modul Dance.
With the poetry of her personal narratives in which she fuses literary and cinematic perspectives alongside sociological frameworks, Pia Meuthen brings her own colour to the palette of theatrical dance. The major focus on the fusion of dance and circus is challenging and brings broadening and deepening to Pia's movement language.
Working with Pia Meuthen, DansBrabant chose to bring some degree of consolidation to the dance landscape in transition down under. In the very short space of less than a year, Pia managed to create a totally new situation for her company Panama Pictures. Somewhere; nearby, the production that premiered in mid-February 2013, lived up to the expectations of the exciting crossover between circus and dance. The path taken proved to lead to artistically rich places. Both professionals, press and audiences reacted very positively to this performance.
Pia Meuthen is inspiring new generations of Brabant creators not only with her work, but also as a teacher at the Fontys Dance Academy. She is also at the forefront of finding new performance spaces by forging alliances with various social and business partners. Pia Meuthen | Panama Pictures works closely with Strijbos&VanRijswijk and has been core company of De Verkadefabriek in Den Bosch since 2013.
