Suze Vonk
Who are you as a performer/artist?
I am an open and curious performer who likes to research within the creation process. I want to get in contact with the audience and have a dialogue. I like to find the maximum range of movement in my body.
What are your ambitions?
My ambitions are to keep working on my research on habits in dance imporvisation and to finish my movement practice based on this. I want to perform, share my art and learn from other artists. I love the fact that the world is at our feet now, and we have such big freedom to explore, learn, grow and experience whatever comes on our path.
Where do you find inspiration?
I find inspiration in daily things, conversations with people, love we share and movement that is around us. I love to sit outside and observe how nature is ever moving. Another inspirationsource that I found the past year is nightlife. The way I can so freely dance while going out gives me a lot of inspiration for new ways of moving.
What did you do at your internship & what did you learn?
I started the year with performances for a sight-specific art festival; Woest&Bijster called ZORGENKIND with Company TiNaNiNaNI.
“Let's try to get in dialogue with the nature again. What is wrong with the relationship we have with nature? The dancers start a battle with the sandhill. We keep on trying to get on top of it, to in the end, give in to gravity. Meanwhile we hear a monologue by the mime player.”
After that I continued my research “Habits; a messy insight in my structured brain” and I started to create my movement practice on this at Stichting CORPO in Rotterdam. For this research I also started to collaborate with Hayley Adams who is researching the same topic.
2 projects for Amit Palgi. “Everything is too moving” and Red, Green and Blue with Ereprijs Orhestra. I Created a dance film with Kagiso Ramagaga and Vertoamar Productions. I joined Danielle Huyghe in her pre research for her new performance and I also did some production work for De Nederlandse Dansdagen and De Dutch Don’t Dance Division.
I ended my year with an internship with Alica Minar in Berlin in Germany, Brno and Prague in Czechia.
WOODS WON’T VAPORIZE creates a surreal dreamland inspired by the forest ecosystem and the anatomy of trees. Stretch your roots, sense the mutual touch, ground yourself, imagine the decomposition of your tissues, feel the sap flow, breath! A group of dancers together with a wide artistic team take us on a vibrant re-discovery of forest in us.
What I have learned during this year is to be adaptable, open and versitile. I never thought I would be able to do so many things and change, sometimes even 3 projects in 1 week or 3 countries in 1 month. I took all opportunities with both hands and gave it my all!
Favourite quote
Just wait there. Something will come along. It always does-Lorna Marshall in The Body Speaks
This page was last updated on April 22, 2023