RUTKAY ÖZPINAR
Spring 2022 Lab Cycle
In our first international collaboration, Dance Lab NY partnered with Korzo in The Hague, to support choreographer Rutkay Özpinar.This Nexus Lab connected our company of professional dancers inNew York with Rutkay, who joined from the Netherlands via Zoom.
INSIDE THE LAB
Filmed and Edited by Eric Mann, Unreel Films / Photos by Whitney Browne Photography
DLNY DANCERS
AFTER THE LAB
Rutkay premiered “Work Line” at the Korzo in The Hague in January 2023. Take a look at the trailer below.
As humans, we learn to strive for success and perfection. What does this drive for achievement do to us? The pattern we move in that leads to success brings satisfaction, but as soon as we fail to achieve it, we find it hard to accept. We are shaped by imposed structures.
In Work Line, Rutkay Özpinar brings to life this tension between our instinct and what we have been taught into a dynamic spectacle. Four dancers end up in a world where they are confronted with these imposed structures. How do they deal with this and what role does instinct play?