FASHIONCLASH & Nederlandse Dansdagen 2014

FASHIONCLASH at Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Festival) 2014 The 17th edition of Dutch Dance Festival took place in the weekend of 3 to 5 October in Maastricht. This spectacular event is one of the highlights within the cultural calendar in Maastricht and is the most important dance event in The Netherlands, showing a best of selection of the current development in Dutch dance.

FASHIONCLASH and Dutch Dance Festival teamed up this year and developed two special projects, Distinguished Dreams and (OLD)Fashion(ed). Both projects where presented during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014 and during the 17th edition of Dutch Dance Festival (October 2014). Distinguished Dreams project was presented in a pop-up store at Mosae Forum and (OLD)Fashion(ed) at Museum aan het Vrijthof and Toneelacademie Maastricht.

Both projects enjoyed media attention, good reviews and feedback from the audience.

Take a look at some images here below

(OLD)Fashion(ed) exhibition at Museum aan het Vrijthof

(OLD)Fashion(ed)  a collaboration with FASHIONCLASH, Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Festival) and Museum aan het Vrijthof

Four choreographers, four fashion designers were inspired by crafts like metal shaping, papermaking, wheat weaving and syrup making. They created four danced fashion shows or four fashionable dance works, with untrained dancers between the ages of 63 and 80. The project started of with its first presentations during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014 and followed up with success during the Dutch Dance Festival (October 3-5 2014).

More information about the project: http://fashionclash.nl/oldfashioned/

(OLD)Fashion(ed) exhibition at Museum aan het Vrijthof

At Museum aan het Vrijthof you can visit the exhibition (OLD)Fashion(ed), which had its festive opening on 21 September. The opening featured premiere of the performance 'Stroop', created by Project Sally and designer Sabine Staartjes. For this project they where connected to the craft of syrup, and in particular collaborated with Canisius company.

The exhibition runs until 16 November! More information about the exhibition: http://www.museumaanhetvrijthof.nl/page_nieuws.aspx?id=598

Impressions from the exhibition -> here