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Gerard Mosterd

Gerard Mosterd advanced dancing and practiced dance improvisation as a child. Majoring in academic dance, folk dance, modern dance and music, he eventually graduated from the dance department of the Royal Conservatory, The Hague where he created his first choreographies. Subsequently Mosterd enjoyed an international career with renowned European dance companies, performing globally works by classical and contemporary choreographers. After this he returned to the Netherlands and since 1996 has been involved in producing independent, small scale physical theatre projects. From his home base in the Netherlands, he annually launches new productions, thematically exploring the connection and disconnection of different cultural identities, notably between Europe and Asia.

Annually he has presented, since 1999, new productions, touring the Netherlands and in particular given performances at the the biggest Eurasian festival in the world, the Dutch-Indonesian cultural festival Pasar Malam Besar (now Tong Tong Fair), to which Gerard Mosterd introduced modern dance. He has created and produced a body of works with an international cast of dancers, composers and video artists. Luminescent Twilight (2002), enthousiastically received by audiences and press all over Indonesia, paved for him the way to the Indonesian performing arts scene.  Several of his works:

• Luminescent Twilight (2002)
• Please Let Me See Your Face (2003)
• Stretching Time (2004)
• Kebon (2004)
• Game (2000 - 2004)
• Kamu/Jij (2005)
• Angin (2000 - 2005)
• Paradise...a Woman? (2007)
• Soup of The Day V.O.2 / Mozart Ballet Variations (2008)
• Rujak Cingur (2009)
• Unfolding (2003 - 2006, 2008 - 2010) have been performed in South East Asian theatres and festivals.
• A Javanese version of Stravinskyis L'Histoire du Soldat (2011)
• Di Belakang/Behind (2011) have been performed in South East Asian theatres and festivals.

Gerard Mosterd is the first Dutch choreographer to be asked to perform in an Indonesian dance festival.  His work was performed in:

• The Indonesian Dance Festival Jakarta (IDF)
• Cak Durasim Festival Surabaya
• Yogyakarta International Performing Arts Festival
• Asia Tri Festival Ullen Sentalu
• Schouwburg Festival GKJ
• Gedung Kesenian International Festival
• Jakarta Arts Festival
• GEOK Festival Lombok etc.

In 2007 the production Paradise...a Woman?, a collaboration with Gumarang Sakti, was produced in Indonesia touring South East Asia and Europe with more than 50 performances and workshops. Mosterd has taught at several performing art institutes in the Netherlands and abroad, among others:

• Teater Garasi
• ISI Yogyakarta
• IKJ (Institut Kesenian Jakarta)
• STSI Bandung
• ISI Surakarta
• ISI Denpasar
• Namarina Jakarta
• Sumber Cipta Jakarta
• Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore
• La Salle Institute of the Performing Arts Singapore
• ASWARA Kuala Lumpur
• Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre
• Sutra Dance Theatre Kuala Lumpur
• Ballet Manila
• Yang Min Shan Chinese Culture University Taipei

In 2004 he was invited to participate in the International Council for the Dance (CID) of UNESCO.

Mosterd is an often requested guest choreographer and teacher in Asia. His connection to Asian performance is part of his Indonesian heritage but received an extra boost in the year 1986 when  invited to dance and teach with the Hwa Kang Dance Company in Taiwan, Republic of China.  Gerard Mosterd is connected as a resident choreographer and teacher with the only professional dance company in Indonesia with a production management, EKI Dance Company in Jakarta,.

Gerard Mosterd’s productions are often autobiographically inspired which means that in his works the advantages and disadvantages of growing up in a cross-cultural environment; the complex process of integrating immigrants into Dutch society; and his own affinity with matriarchal, Non-Western societies are examined.

Since 2009 Gerard Mosterd has added to his activities the performing arts agency Kantor Pos, designed to initiate, facilitate and organize cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe. A result of his 12 year interaction from the interior of the South East Asian performing arts scene as a fellow artist. For example in July of 2010, ballet stars of the Marinsky, Bolshoi and Dutch National Ballet were brought to Manila to participate, in collaboration with Ballet Manila, in a Gala. In July 2011 Singapore Dance Theatre and Ballet Manila got involved in an exchange project initiated by Kantor Pos, a coproduction with DCMC and Javanese star performers resulted in a tour through Java of Stravinskyís Soldierís Tale production. Subsequently a Dutch tour in October of a collaboration with Martinus Miroto and Malaysia's Sutra Dance Theatre touring the Netherlands and Belgium. Wangnin Bunmei from Tokyo has been booked at the Barcelona Butoh festival last November. Gerard Mosterd has spoken as an invitee on International co-productions at the PAMS in Seoul, October 2011. February 2nd 2012 he has been invited to lecture on the same at a seminar of the IDF Jakarta in collaboration with the Erasmushuis. February 2nd 2012 he has been invited to lecture on the same subject at a seminar of the IDF Jakarta in collaboration with the Erasmushuis.. 

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