HELIX ‘26

Helix ‘26 marks Haya Maëla’s third edition of the ambitious, multi-year Project Helix. At the heart of this project is the building of bridges: connecting the professional dance world with the power of amateur art, and above all, uniting the dancers on stage with you, our audience. Allow yourself to be carried away by a remarkable triptych, the result of a unique artistic collaboration between creators Haya Maëla and Margarida Constantino

Grains of Noise explores the fragile space between connection and distance, where dreams, fears, and solitude collide. Through dance and music, the performance unveils an intangible sense of sharing, igniting unseen emotions and questioning the balance between skepticism and longing.
Grains of Noise, a dance and music performance, lays the foundation for new relationships, dreams, fears, and sometimes nothing more than a sigh in the wind.
A step, a screech and the noise of the fall.

The intangible sense of sharing, where we find solace in solitude without necessity for comfort. A deeply felt connection to what moves us, an unseen ignition bared. Skepticism embracing our emotional and metaphysical worlds, rationality that confides in the tainted mind- the inscrutable confides in the human. A heightened sense of elevation longing for sensation, found in the space between dance and music.
Grains of Noise explores the fragile space between connection and distance, where dreams, fears, and solitude collide.

TIMEPIECE is a heart pour memoir of a life on stage. The first steps, the linoleum burns on our skin, and the undying devotion to a craft, to the timeless sensation of movement, when we come together to dance. Accompanied by electronic music and saxophone, this dance performance presents a chronological puzzle where two dancers meet in their generational gap.

The life of a dancer.

Opposites are two extremes within the same force or desire.
Heraclitus, ca. 540-480 BC.

With this philosophy in mind, Maëla and her dancers began creating their latest choreography, Tegenpool (Polar Opposite). The idea that everything flows and everything changes through the power of opposites (Panta Rhei).
In this era of intense polarization in the world, Dansgroep Haarlem wishes to immerse its audience in this duality. The ‘us’ versus ’them’. Tegenpool poses the question: “Is opposition the only connection we have left?”
Heraclitus reminds us that opposites are actually expressions of the same force or desire. As far as he is concerned, opposites are by definition interconnected and originate from the same source of life. The dancers move forward and explore, feeding themselves on the energy of the Tegenpool.