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About Gerard
(1964, Amersfoort, The Netherlands)
Studied dance and music at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands.
In 1985 he graduated cum laude in dance at University for Applied Sciences.
Subsequently he danced with the Royal Ballet of Flanders, London Festival Ballet, English National Ballet, Concordanse Paris, Basel Ballet and Ulmer Ballet.
He danced more than 1000 performances globally in venues such as Theatre du Champs Elysees, Royal Festival Hall, London Coliseum, Royal Albert Hall, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Hungarian State Opera, Royal Theater Copenhagen, Teatro El Condeduque Madrid, Flemish Opera Antwerp and Gent.
Gerard Mosterd performed in many works by classical, modern and contemporary choreographers such as Maurice Béjart, Mikhail Fokine, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Valery Panov, Youri Vamos, Jiri Kylian, Hans Van Manen, Peter Schaufuss, Christopher Bruce, Lindsay Kemp, Kim Brandstrup, Ben Stevenson, Mats Ek, Ronald Hynd, John Cranko, Kenneth MacMillan, Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Natalia Makarova, Toni Lander, George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Jose Limón.
He performed in several dance movies such as in Natalia Makarova’s Swan Lake for London Festival Ballet in 1988.
In 1995 Gerard Mosterd returned to the Netherlands and created more than 40 modern dance theater performances. With these independent shows he annually toured festivals and theaters for 20 years in the Netherlands, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.
These successes resulted in many coproductions, international tours and movie productions with prominent South East Asian artists such as Goenawan Mohamad, Garin Nugroho, Martinus Miroto, Eko Supriyanto, Teater Garasi, Gumarang Sakti and festivals such as Indonesian Dance Festival Jakarta, Lanjong Arts Festival, Kuala Lumpur International Arts Festival, Yogyakarta International Arts Festival, Cak Durasim Festival Surabaya etc.
Gerard Mosterd choreographed and directed the first Indonesian version of Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat with a cast of internationally renowned Javanese court dancers in 2011.
While creating/choreographing international productions and tours between South East Asia and the Netherlands, Gerard Mosterd started to organize tours for independent Asian artists such as Sutra Dance Theater, Miroto Dance Company, Wangnin Bunmei Butoh etc.
In 2010 he organized a Ballet Gala with Ballet Manila at Aliw Theater in Manila. This included guest stars from Mariinsky, Bolshoi, Kiev, Perm and prominent West European ballet companies.
Because of huge success Gerard Mosterd, next to his choreographic activities, started an impresario company based in the Netherlands, touring small and large scale Asian and East European dance, opera and ballet companies.
Among them:
Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kyyiv Modern Ballet, Credo Kiev Choir.
Choreography
| 46 | 2019 | A Javanese L’Histoire du Soldat (in preparation for South East Asia tour) |
(Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, Pekan Baru, Lanjong-Kutai, Banjarmasin, Singapore) plus workshops. Full evening music theater performance with New European Ensemble and Reza Rahadian, text Goenawan Mohamad |
| 45 | 2018 | Ketuk Tilu Duet | (Padang, Banjarmasin version) Indonesia tour plus workshops |
| 44 | 2017 | Unfolding | (Padang, Pekan Baru, Balikpapan version) Indonesia tour (4) performances with Shafiq Yussof plus workshops |
| 43 | 2017 | A Javanese L’Histoire du Soldat |
(Premiere The Hague (20) full-length performances by the Netherlands) with New European Ensemble , Wieteke van Dort, Frans Leidelmeijer, Hendro Yuliyanto, Siko Setyanto, Rury Avianti |
| 42 | 2016 | Alice |
(Premiere Surabaya) Belle Surabaya, Ciputra Hall, full-length group performance plus workshops |
| 41 | 2016 | Unfolding (version Kuala Lumpur, Yogyakarta) |
Indonesia tour (6) with Maria Devonne plus workshops, Sime Darby Arts Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Jogja International Street Arts Festival, Asia Tri Festival Yogyakarta, Bedog Festival Yogyakarta plus workshops |
| 40 | 2015 | Tepak Tari | (Ketuk Tilu/Kuala Lumpur version (2) Kuala Lumpur International Arts Festival with January Low and Raziman Sarbini |
| 39 | 2015 | Unfolding | (Amsterdam) Indomania Melkweg/Rabozaal Stadsschouwburg with Joke Zijlstra |
| 38 | 2014 | L’Histoire du Soldat | (Jakarta (2) full-length music theater performance, Salihara Festival Jakarta with Rudy Wowor , Hendro Yuliyanto, Siko Setyanto , Rury Avianti , text by Goenawan Mohamad |
| 37 | 2013 | Unseen | (Singapore (2) group performance, Lasalle Institute for the Arts Singapore |
| 36 | 2012 | A Javanese / Indonesian L’Histoire du Soldat | (Yogyakarta / Amsterdam / Amersfoort (4 ) Full evening-music theater performance, Dutch-Indonesian Tour with Rudy Wowor, Miroto, Avianti, Yuliiyanto and Insomnio Ensemble, text by Goenawan Mohamad plus lectures and workshops |
| 35 | 2012 | Dan Ada Sebuah Kotak… | (Premiere Jakarta) Schouwburg Festival Gedung Kesenian Jakarta group performance with Sumber Cipta by Farida Oetoyo |
| 34 | 2012 | A Javanese L’Histoire du Soldat | (Jakarta) Full-length music theater performance, Indonesian Dance Festival Jakarta with Jakarta Symphony Orchestra, Eko Supriyanto, Martin Miroto, Sri Qadariatin, Jamaluddin Lative plus lectures and workshops |
| 33 | 2011 | Di Belakang | (Premiere Yogyakarta/Jakarta /Amsterdam / Antwerp (5) group performance, Indonesian-Dutch-Belgian tour with ao Martinus Miroto, Sri Qadariatin plus workshops |
| 32 | 2011 | Mau Ketemu Iblis?… L’Histoire du Soldat | Premiere: Yogyakarta, Solo, Semarang, Jakarta (9) Performances Full-length music theater performance, Indonesian tour with Dutch Chamber Music Company, Jamaluddin Latief , Eko Supriyanto, Martinus Miroto, Sri Qadariatin and Slamet Gundono |
| 31 | 2010 | First Gesture | (Premiere Amersfoort (2) Performances Kunsthal Kade with Julia Mitomi |
| 30 | 2010 | Unfolding | (Premiere Jakarta (3) Performances Erasmushuis Jakarta with Julia Mitomi |
| 29 | 2010 | Gamelan & Jazz | (Premiere The Hague (2) Group performance, Tong Tong Fair with Boi Akih |
| 28 | 2010 | Unfolding & Ketuk Tilu | (Premiere Amsterdam) 13 performances by the Netherlands with Julia Mitomi |
| 27 | 2009 | Roejak Cingur | (Surabaya (2) group performances Belle, Surabaya |
| 26 | 2009 | Unfolding | (Amersfoort/Utrecht /Rotterdam/Leiden (24) performances Centraal Museum Utrecht, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Laken Hal Leiden, De Parade Amersfoort with Julia Mitomi |
| 25 | 2009 | Ibu Bhumi | (Premiere Amsterdam) 20 performances through the Netherlands plus workshops Educational, interdisciplinary, full evening group performance with Benny Krisnawardi, Maria Bernadeta Apprianti, Bayu Limawanto and four amateur dancers. |
| 24 | 2008 | Mozart Ballet Variations & Soup of the Day vo.2 | (Premiere Jakarta) Full evening group performances for dance group Lucia Tanoto, Jakarta, Gedung Kesenian Jakarta plus workshops |
| 23 | 2008 | Ketuk Tilu Revised | Premiere (The Hague (2 ) Interdisciplinary group dance performance Pasar Malam Besar The Hague with Alfred Birney, Julia Mitomi, Wendel Spier, Laura Witzleben, Winston Arnon |
| 22 | 2008 | Unfolding (Video Version) | (Den Bosch) Peanut Butter Festival with Wendel Spier |
| 21 | 2007 | Paradise… a Woman?/Bundo Kanduang | Premiere Jakarta/Bangkok/Kuala Lumpur/Singapore/Amersfoort/Düsseldorf) Interdisciplinary, intercultural, full-length group dance performance. 56 performances in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia , Thailand, the Netherlands and Germany with Gumarang Sakti, Boi Sakti and three European dancers. |
| 20 | 2006 | Unfolding (2nd version) | Amsterdam/Dartmouth/Lombok/Yogyakarta/Singapadu (5) performances with Wendel Spier or Agung Gunawan |
| 19 | 2005 | Kamu – You | (Premiere Amersfoort/Kuala Lumpur/Jakarta) Full evening-group performance. Netherlands and Indonesia Malaysia tour-19 performances plus workshops |
| 18 | 2005 | Game | Singapore (2) Group performance for Fontys Dance Academy Tilburg |
| 17 | 2005 | Angin | Singapore (3) performances Lasalle Institute for the Arts with Ming Wei Poon |
| 16 | 2004 | Kebon | (Premiere Jakarta) Group performance for 14 dancers from IPPB Jakarta, Graha Bhakti Jakarta |
| 15 | 2004 | Garden II | (Premiere Tilburg) Group performance for Fontys Dance Academy Tilburg |
| 14 | 2004 | Unfolding (1st version) | (Amsterdam) Hortus Botanicus with Fleur Hagemans |
| 13 | 2004 | Stretching Time / Jam Karet | (Premiere The Hague/Jakarta) Full-length duet with Wendel Spier and Miguel Angel Rodriguez-Plukel, Pasar Malam Besar The Hague, Indonesian Dance Festival Jakarta |
| 12 | 2004 | Long Tales, Tall Shadows | (Premiere Amersfoort (3) Group performance with Kay Patru , Wendel Spier, Sau Ching Wong, Dutch tour |
| 11 | 2003 | Please Let Me See Your Face | (Premiere Amersfoort/Jakarta (18 plus workshops ) Full Evening duet with Wendel Spier, Jerome Meyer and Renadi Santoso. Tour Netherlands, Indonesia , Gedung Kesenian Jakarta Festival, Selasar Sunaryo Bandung, Yogyakarta International Arts Festival, ISI Solo, Simpang Surabaya, Denpasar 9 performances plus workshops |
| 10 | 2002 | Garden | (Premiere Amersfoort (5) performances Prize winning group performance for amateur performers for BKE / Scholen in de Kunst Amersfoort |
| 9 | 2002 | Lichtende Schemering | (Premiere Amersfoort /Jakarta) Full evening duet with Ester Natzijl and Ming Wei Poon. Tour through the Netherlands(12) and Indonesia(9) plus workshops. Gedung Kesenian International Festival Jakarta, Festival Cak Durasim Surabaya, Yogyakarta International Festival, STSI Bandung, Solo ISI, ISI Denpasar |
| 8 | 2001 | Soup of the Day | Premiere Tilburg (2) Group performance for Fontys Dance Academy Tilburg |
| 7 | 2001 | Demam | (Premiere The Hague (2) Duet with Ming Wei Poon and Lonneke van Leth, Pasar Malam Besar, The Hague |
| 6 | 2000 | Angin | (Premiere Maastricht/The Hague (4) With Gerard Mosterd or Shintaro O-Ue |
| 5 | 1999 | Game | (Premiere Tilburg (2) Group performance for Fontys Dance Academy Tilburg |
| 4 | 1999 | Ketuk Tilu | (Premiere Amsterdam /The Hague /Eindhoven/Hanover (7) Group performance, Melkweg Amsterdam, Pasar Malam Besar The Hague, International Choreography Competition Hannover |
| 3 | 1998 | Mara | (Premiere Amsterdam) Solo for the Dalai Lama festival Melkweg Amsterdam with Gerard Mosterd |
| 2 | 1998 | I Really Love You | (Premiere Amsterdam (2) Duet for National Ballet Choreography Workshop with Cyrille de la Barre and Jennifer Karius |
| 1 | 1996 | Mental Mechanics into Dripping Senses | (PremiereAmsterdam/ Antwerp / Hanover) Duet, Melkweg Amsterdam with Sandra Holtzappel, Marianne Valkenburg or Yellie Emmerink, Gerard Mosterd. De Beweeging Antwerp, International Choreography Competition Hannover |
Executive Professional Dancer
1997-1997 Voortman and de Jonge Rotterdam
1996-1996 Hardbeat Amsterdam
1994-1995 Ulmer Ballet
1993-1994 Basel Ballet
1992-1993 Concordanse Paris
1989-1992 English National Ballet
1987-1989 London Festival Ballet
1986-1986 Hwa Kang Dance Company Taipei
1985-1987 Royal Ballet of Flanders Antwerp
Theater Producer
12 May 2018 – Present
Gerard Mosterd – Director international impresario agency.
MTSM BV Executive Director
Amersfoort Offshoot company from Kantor Pos Company (founded more than ten years ago). Annually setting up and facilitating international productions, collaborations and tours for performing arts from Asia and Eastern Europe, connected with the Netherlands and Belgium. Miroto Dance, Gumarang Sakti, Sutra Dance Theatre, Wangnin Bunmei, Odessa National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, St Petersburg Ballet, Bejart Lausanne, Kyyiv Modern Ballet, Teater Wiliki Poznan, Lviv Opera, Singapore Dance Theatre, Manila Ballet, Credo Kyyiv Choir, Kyyiv Choir, New European Ensemble, Opera, ballet, modern dance, interdisciplinary theatre, film
2016 – Present Kantor Pos-Music Theater Stage Management-organization tours opera and ballet performances from East Europe through Dutch and Belgian theaters and Dutch tour A Javanese L’Histoire du Soldat in collaboration with New European Ensemble
2010 – 2016 kantorpos.nl Tour management for Miroto, Sutra Dance Theater and Wangmin Bunmei. Tour through the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain , Russian Ballet Gala in Manila in association with Ballet Manila, initiation and coordination for exchange project between Singapore Dance Theater and Ballet Manila
2008 – 2008 Tour manager for World Music Theater Festival, international tour Bunraku group, Japan
2002 – 2008 Tour manager ANMARO Asia Arts-international tours of Miroto and Sen Hea Ha
Publication
Indian magazine Monsoon interview with Nancy Euverink, Mascha Stom, Roderik de Man, Miroto
Dance audience interview with John Neumeier, Igone de Jong, Jan Linkens, Annemieke Keurentjes, Contact Gonzo
Latitudes interview with Jecko Siompo, Goenawan Mohamad, Contact Gonzo
Curator
2019
(In preparation) Head of programming in collaboration with dramaturge Bo Tarenskeen Festival Sambal! De Balie Amsterdam, Company theater Amsterdam, EYE Amsterdam, LAB 111 Amsterdam
2016
Programming Assistant-Europe on Screen Festival Jakarta
2015
Head programming for the Indomania festival, Melkweg Amsterdam
2012-2014
Film programmer Cinemasia Amsterdam
Dance Roles
Romeo & Juliet – Sir Frederick Ashton
Swan Lake – Natalia Makarova / Sir Frederick Ashton /Petipa
Symphony in C – George Balanchine
Tombeau de Couperin – George Balanchine
Bolero – Maurice Bejart
Prince Igor – Nicholas Beriozoff/Michail Fokine
Scheherazade – Nicholas Beriozoff/Michail Fokine
Cruel Garden – Christopher Bruce/Lindsay Kemp
Symphony in Three Movements – Christopher Bruce
White Nights – Kim Brandstrup
Grafin Maritza – Dimas Casinha
Quartet I – Nils Christe
Rite of Spring, punk rock version – Michael Clark (commissioned by London Festival Ballet )
Onegin – John Cranko
The Taming of the Shrew – John Cranko
Hardbeat – Yusuf Daniels
Romeo & Juliet – Rudi Van Dantzig
Shaker Loops – Siobhan Davies
Carmen – Mats Ek
Petrouchka – Mikhail Fokine
Polowetser Dancing from Prince Igor – Mikhail Fokine
Les Sylphides – Michail Fokine
Le Specter de la Rose – Mikhail Fokine
Coppelia – Ronald Hynd
The Sanguine Fan – Ronald Hynd
Child’s play and – Jiri Kylian
Etudes – Harald Lander
Echoing of Trumpets – Anthony Tudor
Anastasia/Sleeping Beauty – Youri Vamos
The Miraculous Mandarin/Wooden Prince – Youri Vamos
Nutcracker – Youri Vamos
Heartgrenade – Voortman & De Jonge
Anne Frank – Maurizio Wainrot
Tango’s – Maurizio Wainrot
Petrouchka – Niels Bjorn Larsen/Mikhail Fokine
Easy Tango’s – Luc De Layresse
Iberia – Andre Leclair
Faust – Andre Leclair
Graduation Ball – David Lichine
The Moor’s Pavane – Jose Limon
Anastasia – Sir Kenneth MacMillan
Ajakaboembie – Hans Van Manen
Septet Extra – Hans Van Manen
Unisono – Hans Van Manen
Nuestros Valses – Vicente Nebrada
Petrouchka Variations – John Neumeier
Death and the Maiden – Robert North
Romeo & Juliet – Rudolf Nureyev
Paquita – Marius Petipa
Romeo & Juliet – Valery Panov
Rite of Spring – Valery Panov/Vaslav Nijinsky
The Idiot – Valery Panov
Moves – Valery Panov
Cinderella – Valery Panov
Blue Bird – Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov
Nutcracker – Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov
L’Arlesienne – Roland Petit
Dance Style – Qu Ping
Othello – Qu Ping
Nutcracker – Peter Schaufuss
Napoli – Peter Schaufuss/August Bournonville
La Sylphide – Peter Schaufuss/August Bournonville
Grand Gala du Disque (AVRO) – Barry Stevens
Cinderella – Ben Stevenson
The Nutcracker – Ben Stevenson
“L” – Ben Stevenson
Aureole – Paul Taylor
Great Galloping Gottschalk – Lynne Taylor Corbett
Le Corsaire Pas de deux – Vakhtang Tchaboukiani
Workshops Dance and Choreography, Dance Masterclasses and Choreography and Lectures
Royal Conservatory The Hague
Theaterschool-Tropentheater Amsterdam
Fontys Dance Academy Tilburg
Artez Dance Academy -Bronbeek- Arnhem
Keunstwuerk Drachten
Utan Kayu – Erasmushuis – EKI – Sumber Cipta – LucyTanoto – Caritas – Namarina – Jakarta
Lanjong-Kalimantan
ISI- Teater Garasi -LAF- UGM- Yogyakarta
ISI – Marinatari – Solo
STSI Bandung
Cak Durasim -Belle-Surabaya
Sutra House-ASWARA Kuala Lumpur
LASALLE-NAFA-NUS Singapore
Nan Jombang -Padang
Patravadi- Bangkok
Film
2017 Present Concept development, script -treatment writing Walter Spies film with FuWorks, Garin Nugroho
2014-2015 Concept development, script -treatment writing documentary Dancing behind the Shadows with Leonard Retel Helmrich and Orlow Seunke
2014-Camera operator and assistant for single shot cinema demonstrations with and for Leonard Retel Helmrich at IDFA and Dutch Film Academy Amsterdam
2014- Concept development, script -treatment writing dance film Shift with Leonard Retel Helmrich
2014- Actor and dancer: Antagonist in Garin Nugroho’s film Guru Bangsa, Tjokroaminoto
2007-2008-Researcher, translator and text editor for the film Nadra about Bertha Hertogh on behalf of Monsoon Pictures Singapore
2006-2007- Transscriptor, text editor and screener for HUMAN documentary Master Ben by Vuk Janic
1988 Dancer: Pass the Douze dancer in London Festival Ballet film Swan Lake by Natalia Makarova, directed by Thomas Grimm , Kultur Video
Musical Instrument
1985 – present – Plays staalsnarig, nylonsnarig and electric guitar and teaches regularly (Improvised music, jazz, pop, folk, rock, gypsy jazz)
1976-1985 Classical guitar study at Ocker Toetenel – Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag