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Time Steps
Hans Beenhakker
Germany/Netherlands 2003
Work commissioned for tanzmedial, World Premiere

Time Steps comprises of ten short dance films which thematize dance in private rooms and in the ambience of personal everyday life. Shown are dancers who start dancing - inspired by private archival film footage from the 1920s and 30s. Historical film footage of a step dance transform into a wild modern dance in an office, an erotic veil dance is being performed in shorts and a woollen hat, the formal step dance duet of two boys inspires a ten-year-old to perform a professional break dance.

Hans Beenhakker
Born 1964
Lives and works in Amsterdam
Education: Rotterdamse Dansacademie


Beenhakker was a dancer with the Wuppertal Dance Theater of Pina Bausch and has worked with choreographers such as Amanda Miller, Jennifer Muller, Krisztina de Chatel and Susan Marshall/Phillip Glass. He danced for film, television and in industrial advertising films. In 2002, he began a career as a filmmaker and received international awards for his dance films. He is the founder and director of the annual dance festival "cinedans" in Amsterdam

hansbeenhakker@xs4all.nl