Club Guy & Roni

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Club Guy & Roni is an international dance company from Groningen in the Netherlands, [1] led by choreographers Roni Haver and Guy Weizman. The company was founded in 2002.

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The performances are characterized by collaborations with artists in music, film and theatre and are generally considered to be of modern nature. [2] Club Guy & Roni makes productions that tour through Europe. Since 2009 the company is subsidized by the NFPK. [3]

In 2018 Club Guy & Roni started the interdisciplinary movement called NITE together with Noord Nederlands Toneel + Het Muziek + Den Haag.

Performances

Club Guy & Roni have performed at various festivals, like Oerol, Noorderzon and De Parade, the American Jacob's Pillow Festival and the Grec Festival in Barcelona, Spain.[ citation needed ]

International co-productions

The Club has performed in many European countries. Since 2010, Haver and Weizman are considered 'artists in residence' at the Oldenburgisches State Theater en since then they have co-produced 'Alpha Boys (2010), 'Miraculous Wednesday' (2011) and Roméo and Juliette' (2013). In September 2014 they moved along with the artistic staff of Oldenburg to take up residency at the State Theatre in Mainz.

In addition, the choreographers have also been working together with the Moscow dance company Tsekh Contemporary Dance Centre since 2011 and have produced a Russian 'L'Histoire du Soldat’. [4] In Tuscany and Belgrado, [5] Club Guy & Roni has also done co-productions, as well as with the Gothenburg Ballet (Sweden), Schauspiel Kölln (Germany) and Carte Blanche (Norway). [6]

Awards

Nominations

Works

Additional projects

In 2011 Club Guy & Roni initiated the 'Duizend Dansjes Festival', to raise money for the UMCG Cancer Research Fund in Groningen. Eventually, €15,140 were raised for the Fund. [11]

Move it! is a participation project from 2011 in which Club Guy & Roni and the Noord Nederlands Orkest teach a group of youths a choreography based on orchestral work.

Every year Club Guy & Roni organizes the Club Guy & Roni Weekend Break Festival, a festival full of dance, theatre, live music, film and art. Club Guy & Roni seek contact with young, local talents for the production of this festival. The first edition was in 2013 in the Grand Theatre in Groningen.

The Poetic Disasters Club

The Poetic Disasters Club is the junior company of Club Guy & Roni (and later NITE), founded in 2013 as a talent development platform for young dancers, actors, and musicians who are about to graduate or have just graduated from their training programs. The initiative was established by choreographers Guy Weizman and Roni Haver as part of their Groningen-based dance company Club Guy & Roni. [12] [13]

In 2016, the Poetic Disasters Club performed Kaspar at De Parade festival, a loose adaptation of Peter Handke's experimental play directed by Hendrik Aerts and choreographed by Angela Herenda, which explored themes of communication and identity through dance-theater. [14]

References

  1. ↑ "Comedy Fringe Dwellers". Dance Australia, 20 Mar 2012
  2. ↑ "Quick Quick Face the Wall, Theaterjournaal". Archived from the original on 2010-11-23. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  3. ↑ Dans met ballen - interview with Guy Weizman & Roni Haver
  4. ↑ "L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT". Golden Mask.
  5. ↑ East European Performing Arts Platform Archived 2012-01-31 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ SceneWeb - When Clarity Visits - by Club Guy and Roni
  7. ↑ "Zwanen voor Lezhnina, Podsiadly en Nationale Ballet - Theaterkrant". Theaterkrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  8. ↑ Lubberding, Wendy. "Roni Haver en Guy Weizman ontvangen de Jirí Kylián Ring voor hun impact op de danswereld". Theaterkrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2026-02-05.
  9. ↑ "Tf | Simber" . Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  10. ↑ "GOLDEN MASK NOMINEES". goldenmask.ru. 2013. Archived from the original on 2024-03-01.
  11. ↑ "Opbrengst 1000 Dansjes Festival 15.140 euro". umcg.nl. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-07-03.
  12. ↑ "Events all over the world". www.wherevent.com. Retrieved 2025-12-12.
  13. ↑ "Poetic Disasters Club". Nite (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-12-12.
  14. ↑ Teylingen, Dick van. "Recensie Kaspar door Club Guy & Roni/ Poetic Disasters Club". Theaterkrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-12-12.
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