Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam

Rond de Jambe is a video work that revolves around the controversial construction of the Stopera in Amsterdam, the building that serves as home for the National Opera and Ballet as well as the City Hall. Planned without social awareness, and without dealing with the traumatic history of the old Jewish area, the Stopera was built between 1979 and 1986 in the face of strong opposition from residents of the area and left-wing movements in Amsterdam. Rond de Jambe takes this history of protests and demonstrations as a starting point. Working together with dancers, Zito Lema juxtaposes the ‘political body’ and the ‘dancing body’ by translating the movements in the archival images of these events into dance.