Jule Niekamp & Flor Riverti

We are Jule and Flor, a creative duo from Germany and Argentina based in London. We met during our studies at London Contemporary Dance School, The Place and started working together as a duo in 2022.

 

Jule is a queer dance artist. Jule’s work focuses on the exploration of relationships and manual labour. Besides ‘Murmurations’ she is researching for her own solo creation, which is influenced by the work she has done in the past with Igor x Moreno as a performer and rehearsal assistant. She has worked with artists such as Yukiko Masui and J Neve Harrington.

Jule is interested in physical theatre and is researching possibilities of presence and performance through workshops by Lost Dog, Lali Ayguadé and Lea Tirabasso.

 

Florencia Riverti is a dance artist from Argentina based in London working as a performer, facilitator and choreographer. She is passionate about improvisation and uses it to flip around perception and do uncivilised dancing. Flor co-founded the MOŸ MOŸ Collective, a non-hierarchical ensemble where seven female artists collaborate. She has performed on tour with Truefit collective, choreographers like Max Maxwell and improviser Seke Chimutenwende. Her teaching journey includes workshops of her practice FLIPPING AROUND at Cyprus Improv Lab, LondonPerformanceStudios and The Burgeon.

 

The two of us came together to create a dance piece, ‘Murmurations’, and through that developed our own creative practice. While working together, we focus on what feels good in our bodies and minds. This includes developing an idea slowly, working it through our body and seeing how it makes us feel. Rather than pushing for an immediate outcome to produce something ready for stage, we try to give space, create without urgency and leave room in between working periods to let it resonate and to come back to it fresh.

When creating dance material for our project, we work a lot with improvisation and playfulness and joy that arises from it. Taking inspiration from visual impressions, rhythms and exploring our own queerness is all part of the process.

Working as a duo that has quite different backgrounds and own practices, we discovered that our differences complement each other very well, without forcing any outcome. This, as well as mutual respect and interest in the other, built a fundament for our practice which allows us to take time for what we make and how we work.