Bio
Gino Taytelbaum was born and raised in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and graduated in 2015 at Codarts. He started dancing at the age of 12 at the theatre school, whilst also taking drama and singing classes. This theatre school was basically a secundary school which combined art classes with practical classes. After graduating he went to Codarts to start with his Bachelor of Dance.
Codarts, a place where he developed his movement vocabulary and gained professional experience by dancing in several pieces. He worked with Conny Janssen, Jan Martens, Samir Calixto and also worked on pieces of Nacho Duato and Jiri Kylian.
His internship took place at 'de Stilte', a dance company based in Breda. Gino got the change to learn a couple of duets and toured a lot through the Netherlands. The teachers and coaches working at de Stilte influenced his artistic development a lot. Here he got many different approaches to come to a comfortable way of working. If you think that you know your character, they will come with new ideas about it.
After graduating at Codarts, Gino danced in a few pieces. He first started working with Project Sally ('Revolt'-2015).
REVOLT
Revolt is an energized dance performance that will leave an imprint on your heart.
Do you lead or stand back?
Do you protest or remain silent?
What do you believe in; what gives you doubt?
In REVOLT the present day generation rebels by choosing their personal protest. In our current unlimited world, more fickle than ever, everything seems possible. At the same time, remaining vulnerable, staying true to yourself and sharing your deepest and darkest secrets is difficult. Six young dancers reveal their inner truth in REVOLT. They choose connection instead of opposition.
REVOLT connects new choreography by Stefan Ernst and Ronald Wintjens with the chorography of three international choreographers Itzik Galili, Stephen Shropshire, and Martin Harriague. These works merge into one powerful and physical performance.
Touring period: September - December 2015
Duration: ± 60 min
Age: 14+
In 2016, he started working on 'M' with Samir Calixto (Korzo production).
For his new performance M Samir Calixto sought inspiration in the philosophical insights of Friedrich Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. Nietzsche set great store by the knowledge contained in the human body: "there is more wisdom in the body that in the deepest philosophy". In M, Samir focuses on the power of transformation that the body possesses. Accompanied by a modern arrangement of music by Mahler, five male dances present their entire humanity on stage: their physical and mental effort and dedication, their extreme force and vulnerability, and their personal fortunes and paradoxes.
FROM THE PRESS;
"A thoughtful performance about the intangible."
"Ultimately five men - or perhaps 'forest spirits' - share the stage. Thibault Desaules, Ivan Montis, Quentin Roger, Gino Taytelbaum and Calixto himself operate as a group, but also individually and in subsets, harmoniously, driven, or shivering and falling. Their wish is to create, but they are also continuously subjected to a force that is beyond and which masters them. Their movements seem to come from both in and outside. This leads to drug-like, intoxicating scenes that refer to Nietzsche's notions of the Apollonian and the Dyonisian, to instinct versus intellect and nature versus culture, plus the romantic appreciation of the sublime, the primal force that generates awe and admiration. (...)
M is a thematically strongly developed and well executed dance performance in which Samir Calixto deliberately connects modern dance, the nineteen century fin de siècle, and a preconscious primal world in image, sound, and movement"
In 2017 Gino worked on 'Prince Igor' (Alexander Borodin) with Itzik Galili at the Dutch National Opera.
With Prince Igor, Dutch National Opera is continuing the line of the great Russian opera repertoire, after successful productions of Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, Pique dame, The legend of the invisible city of Kitezh and Khovanshchina. Many people attending concert halls are already familiar with the 'Polovtsian Dances' from Prince Igor, with which the Chorus of Dutch National Opera made a great impression at the Opera Gala in 2015.
Fiddler on the roof
Based on Sholom Aleichem's Tevye and his Daughters, Fiddler on the Roof is the beloved story of the small, tradition-steeped town of Anatevka, Russia, where Jews and Russians live in delicate balance. During the course of the show, the time honored traditions of Anatevka are both embraced and challenged by Tevye and his colorful community, as they witness his daughters, Tzeitel, Hodel and Chava, grow up and fall in love in a time of extraordinary change. Fiddler on the Roof's Broadway premier became the longest-running Broadway musical in history, a title it maintained for almost ten years. It is a story that captures the essential human longings for love, community, success, freedom, family, and meaning. Fiddler features such iconic songs as the beautiful "Sunrise, Sunset," the boisterous "If I Were a Rich Man", and the classic "Matchmaker, Matchmaker."