HUMANHOOD is one of the most extraordinary dance artists to experience. A timeless reverberance pervades their every movement. It is captivating. At every level. Leaving you both breathless and full of artistic oxygen simultaneously.
There is that moment when you realize you are witnessing the emergence of a new art form, a new artist, ready to ride a new wave. That time is now. And that artist is HUMANHOOD.
—Jodi Kaplan
HUMANHOOD’s mystical, colossal, and award-winning dance performances are based on the fusion of ancient mysticism — past, the inner world — and modern science — future, the outer world — within the human body— present, the illusionary barrier between the inner and outer worlds. They create mystical and colossal dance production bringing art for transformation into the world’s most recognised theatres across five continents.
Co-founders Julia Robert and Rudi Cole are world-class artists, choreographers, and movement guides who have performed with Akram Khan, Hofesh Schechter, Jasmin Vardimon and among others. They joined together in establishing HUMANHOOD in 2016 to develop the unique, symbiotic, choreographic movement language that is notoriously known for its exquisite fluidity and powerful rhythm.
HUMANHOOD has achieved utmost international acclaim, most notably performing at Sadler’s Wells in London, Festival Grec Barcelona and at the Venice Biennale. HUMANHOOD was selected as the featured artist at the 2022 Cinars Biennale.
HUMANHOOD has recently been invited to create a new commissioned work on the Nederlands Dans Theater. Their entrancing videos have attracted over 150k followers on their Instagram platforms @humanhooddanceco and @humanhood_
Our passion for the power of movement, dance and transformation is so strong that it could only be harmonized with someone special who shares the same passion and vision to take art where it has never been before. Jodi Kaplan x HUMANHOOD is something the world has been waiting for.
— HUMANHOOD
Touring Programs / Video Links
VORTEX
Step into a world where rhythm unravels, gravity dissolves and energy converges. Vortex is the new dance production from Julia Robert & Rudi Cole, where the stage becomes the ‘eye of the tornado.’ Between extreme physicality and spiritual elevation, Vortex takes both dancers and audience to the limits of human endurance, swept away by the hypnotic and overwhelming dynamics of a vortex.Performed by the international powerhouse HUMANHOOD dancers, the cast moves with precision and virtuosity, synchronising seamlessly with a cinematic soundscape that resonates throughout, immersing the audience in the pulse of the dance.
Multiverse
Multiverse is a hypnotic full-body VR experience that combines interactive cloud-like visuals, bone-conducting bodysuits, synchronized breathing, and immersive sound-score, to create a short but intense journey for their “passengers” — ushering them into a state of gentle relaxation and creative imagination. Museums, galleries, events.
Can be booked in tandem with the Vortex experience
{INFINITE}
{Infinite} is Julia Robert and Rudi Cole’s first Dance Theatre Meditation in which they guide the audience through a mystical journey. The outside world of the magical dance on stage will merge with your internal awareness. The premise is movement and consciousness, becoming aware of the infinite power that flows to and through us, giving life to all beings. This group dance resonates and builds into a spiraling flow of powerful dance.
Exclusive performances:
ZERO, a distinguished duet performed by Julia and Rudi themselves, is available for private bookings and exclusive performances. For more information about booking HUMANHOOD’s exclusive performance, please reach out to representative Jodi Kaplan at [email protected].
Previous Touring Programs / Video Links
TORUS
A return to the tribal, where rhythm takes over the performer and the viewer, in a piece that fuses physics and spirituality.
This piece is a journey that starts far out in the cosmos and implodes into planet Earth where a communal rhythm is shared and expressed by humans, merging the energetic synergy and physical vocabulary of HUMANHOOD into a tribal hurricane of effortless fluidity. Light, movement and sound are at the core of a show in which the perception of time is altered to recreate a world where rhythm becomes visual, sonic and kinaesthetic.
Imagine a circle that rotates around an axis with a point anchored in the same plane. A three-dimensional figure is drawn, this figure is commonly known as a donut for its shape and it is found everywhere in nature, from an apple to the Earth’s magnetic field, and described in Eastern practices as the energetic field: Torus.
