Music Meets Dance: Tanate X Payne & Arpini | Dobysh X Hong | Tran X Pelser | Wessels X Sinay

Four performances, each with a dancer and one or two musicians, improvising freely. This could well be the start of wonderful new collaborations. And a compelling experience for the audience. Together with dance platform WhyNot we have linked up these renowned performers. They have all developed their own unique musical and physical language.

Jefta Tanate X Alistair Payne & Marta Arpini

Jefta Tanate is a prize-winning dancer. Soon after his internship at Scapino Ballet he created several solo performances, followed by his first productions Even Onions Don’t Make Me Cry and DOMELESS. Now he will interact with the expressive tone and out-of-the-box-attitude of trumpeter Alistair Payne, and the challenging melodies and colorful orchestrations of singer-songwriter Marta Arpini.

Lucinda Wessels x Rafael Devánte Sinay

Lucinda Wessels has danced in major productions in various genres, from street dance to ballet. She even performed in the opera How ANANSI freed the stories of the world by Nationale Opera & Ballet. Young guitarist Rafael Devánte Sinay is making a name for himself in the jazz world with his band SMANDEM. with which he performed at international festivals such as North Sea Jazz.

Tuan Tran x Yanna Pelser

Dancer Tuan Tran has his origins in hip-hop and is always curious for more. He danced works by renowned choreographers such as Conny Janssen and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Yanna Pelser a classically trained violist who also use her voice. She played viola in various ensembles, also in pop and jazz settings, and played tracks for huge stars such as David Guetta en will.i.am.

Alesya Dobysh X Sun-Mi Hong

Alesya Dobysh combines her background in street, house and en battle dance scenes with performance art, theatre, visual art and sound art. Through experimenting with various forms she develops her own choreographies. In the work of drummer Sun-Mi Hong we hear catchy melodies and dramatic outbursts, alongside impressionistic patterns and irregular time signatures.

After the performances there will be afterparty in our cafe with DJ Stijn van Beek. Everyone on the dance floor!

Tuan Tran dance, Yanna Pelser viola
Alesya Dobysh dance, Sun-Mi Hong drums
Lucinda Wessels dance, Rafael Devánte Sinay guitar
Jefta Tanate dance, Marta Arpini vocals, Alistair Payne trumpet

DJ Stijn van Beek