10 Ways To Dance, by Nele Tiidelepp

A bit more than 3 years ago Nele sent an application to a MA in choreography and performance. When she applied, she did not know that the emphasis was on choreography. She thought she was going to study performance, but found herself among people who lived and breathed dance. Now she is about to graduate, and it’s about time that she too gets to know what this is really all about… What is dance, what is choreography, and what do they have to do with one another?

She invited 10 people to be the choreographers of this piece. She asked them to give her a dance. Some of them have everything to do with dance, some of them have nothing to do with dance, but they all have something to do with Nele, or Nele with them. Among them, Nele’s mother, ex-boyfriend and best friend, but also professor Xavier Le Roy, Czech dancer Tereza Ondrova and Nele’s favourite Estonian artist Anu Vahtra.

The work was originally developed in the frame of Erasmus studies at MAdot in DAMU, and was selected to represent Estonia at the Baltic Dance Platform 2026 in Vilnius. The Estonian premiere will happen in September 2026, produced and supported by elektron.art. In May and June 2026, Nele is an intern and resident at TRUHLArna, where she will develop the piece and share the studio version on the 12th of june at 19:00.

credits:

author, performer: Nele Tiidelepp
choreographers: Tereza Ondrova, Xavier Le Roy, Tom Brennecke, Guðmundur Felixson, Anna Lea Ourø, Jane Tiidelepp, Liisbeth Horn, Anu Vahtra, a stranger, Nele Tiidelepp
dramaturgy: Liisbeth Horn
sound: Hendrik Kaljujärv
costume: Eva Tarn
production: Kaie Olmre
Co-production: elektron.art
Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Dance Agency x TantsuATELJEE and Ministry of Culture, Studio Truhlarna

Reservations: produkce.truhlarna@gmail.com

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