Jasper Stadhouders, Alfredo Genovesi, Anne van Balen, Ingrid Berger, Raoul Germano

Tail Collection arose out of a genuine shared interest in studying dance improvisation as a means and basic ground for performance. The majority of the approximately 8 dancers and musicians are generally engaged in choreographed/composed and/or semi-improvised works. We work both in our completeness and in a variety of different constellations within the collective itself, depending on the occasion. Our temporary aim is to challenge our own capability of creating high quality dance, intuitively and on-the-spot. Developing a regular, common practice through which we constitute a ground, a history and a trust, we lay the fundament for flexibility in our artistic values and for staying flexuous with our guidelines. The essence of our collaboration manifests in a physical, intelligent body that is looking for solutions through its own motion, independently and with the other. We try to avoid falling into or confirming a pre-existing codified dance environment and also to limit our potential by censoring our vocabulary. The notions of our practice contain a variety of more or less conventional techniques of improvisation. We try to base our work solely on interest and to follow each other’s needs and desires in order to physically elaborate a practice we can stand behind. The collective is a raw, lust-driven, unpretentious organism. We keep “practicing the performance of the choreography” (Deborah Hay) through expanding our skills in improvised dance.