Assignments
The multidisciplinary character of Feri de Geus' oeuvre has created many contacts and cooperation with other companies in dance, theatre and music. He co-created almost 25 works for other companies, his contribution ranging from choreography to movement advice for theatre productions, puppet theatres, and special amateur projects. Among major works are: Ophelia, theatre company F'act in Rotterdam, Miles Smiles, about the life of Miles Davis for dance company Djazzex and Waste Watchers with theatre collective Growing Up in Public. The cooperation with Growing up in Public director Paul Feld has been more structural. Noortje Bijvoets has been responsible for all movement and dance parts in his productions until 2007. Earlier Paul Feld has been writer and dramaturgist for Le Grand Cru productions.
REPERTORY ARCHIVE
Pre-academy dance training
Bijvoets and de Geus have been working for years with the Pre-academy Dance of Venlo of the ARTEZ Higher Institute for the Arts in Arnhem. A cooperation that started with 2 productions from Noortje Bijvoets Hallo Venlo and Groeten uit Venlo. Together they created Venlo Verliefd (2002) and Speurtocht in Stropdas (2005) for 70 students ranging in age between 9 and 18 years old. The performances deal with local topics both contemporary as historically.
