Naked Ape

Premiere:  September  25th, 2009 - Netherlands Dance Theater 1 - City Hall, The Hague, The Netherlands.  Tanz Luzerner Theater: April 1st, 2015 -  Luzerner Theater, Switzerland. 

CHOREOGRAPHY, SET and COSTUME DESIGN: Fernando Hernando Magadan.

ORIGINAL CAST: Menghan Lou, Anna Hermann, Ivan Perez, Sandra Marin Garcia.

SCULPTURES: Fernando Hernando Magadan.

INTERACTIVE AUDIO SOUND EFFECTS: Harmen Straatman.

COSTUME: Tomoko Inamura.

LIGHT DESIGN: Jeroen Cool.

Duration: 21 min

Dance has always been a natural element of cohesion, expression and communal identity. These social functions of cooperation, expression and identity are essential for our own development and physical relations. In a time where new technologies are changing the way we communicate, the way we express, and how we inhabit the world, how much space is left for pure social physical experience and the relation with the natural environment? "Naked Ape" is a collaboration between choreographer Fernando Hernando Magadan of NDT (Netherlands Dance Theatre) and multimedia artist & sound designer Harmen Straatman. Using dance and technology as a medium, this choreographic work explores the relation between the human physical expression and instinct and the artificial environment we have created around us. The confrontation between the insensitivity of the technological media with the expressive human capacity may create an identity crisis for the lost of our inherited natural faculties.