International Festival of Contemporary Theatre

Programme

Klapping

Ahilan Ratnamohan (Antwerp)

5 September 18:00 Riga Secondary School No 6 |

6 September 18:00 RIga Secondary School No 31 |

6 September 1=21:00 Riga Secondary School No 6 | Free entrance

Before arriving at contemporary dance, the choreographer Ahilan Ratnamohan was a semi-professional footballer, something that has left indelible marks on his body language, his sense of rhythm and space. He met dancer Feras Shaheen during a football match in Sydney in 2017.

This summer both of them will spend several weeks in Riga visiting local sports grounds and getting to know their users. They are going to meet football professionals and amateurs, work with young people and together with them examine footballers’ movements. Can they be turned into dance?

The artists are sure they can, and at the end of their residence invite us to their show ‘Klapping’, a collective ritual where everyone will be initiated to a new form of urban movement, a street dance drawing its roots in football. Between fiction and reality, this performance stems from the simple desire of a football player to dance.