Playfull concepts in two fold

 The performance of Kom dichter... by Katharina Conradi was very entertaining. She played with the themes of 'masculine' and 'feminine'. Two male dancers and one female dancer and one female drummer changed clothes and swapped each other's roles.

They were all, in their own way, cool, coquettish, weak or strong and that effect was not lost on the public. The live drum music was natural and took place in the  totality of the performance.

 Uit dans, a dance magazine in Holland

 

In Trans

 The duets by Katharina Conradi were a success. I got tickles of excitement with the duet between flamenco dancer, Nuria Manglano, and actress Sarah Ringoet (Zwarte Vlinders). When Ringoet was beautifully reciting her poems Manglano did her fiery flamenco dance. The loud stamping of her feet is loud and hollow on the wood floor of the small room in the machinegebouw. The combination of the poem and the rough room made me think of the poems of schip doctor/poet Slauerhoff who wrote a lot about lost loves in uncomforting harbors. Sometimes the text coincided with the dance-'the mourning song of death of the guitar/to try and shut it up is useless-'. Sometimes the poems formed a passionate atmosphere for the dance. At the end, Manglano looked like she was she was literally 'in trans' when she closed her eyes in one position stamping her feet out of control.

 Uit dans, a dance magazine in Holland

 

The Body Brakes Open

 As diverse Conradi's Terrain seems when one first sees it, there is always a common factor: People are allways at the centre. The form is just a way to get to her feelings. She can only dance when  she arrives there and she is not so impressed with the dance which she hardly sees again, ' I want to move people', she says 'Dancers sometimes hide behind their technique'Where the dance is above the superficial that is where Katharina's dance begins. Her dance starts from depth.

 From: Theatermaker

 

Vorübergehende Begegnung

 .In seine aus vier matten Lichtsegmenten bestehende Buehnensituation hatte er die in Amsterdam lebende Taenzerin Katharina Conradi und den ebenfalls freischaffenden Taenzer Fabian Chyle eingeladen. Das einfuehlsame und professionelle Geschick aller Beteiligten sorgte fuer ein Hoechstmass an logischer Struktur. Das Tanzen von Fabian Chyle und Katharina Conradi war das Bild einer vorruebergehenden Begegnung. ... from: Stuttgarter Zeitung