Club Guy & Roni invites: Cecilia Moisio
In the annual Club Guy & Roni Invites event, international dance company Club Guy & Roni works with talented up-and-coming artists it feels an affinity for and wants to bring to a wider audience. The event puts the new generation of dance makers on the map with urgent, hard-hitting and unmissable interdisciplinary performances. This year, after Kwame Asafo-Adjei, Dunja Jocic, Lunatics & Poets, and Mohamed Yusuf Boss, it’s the turn of Finnish-born choreographer Cecilia Moisio and singer and actor Sarah Janneh.
Moisio is one of the Netherlands’ most eclectic directors and choreographers, and a winner of the Prijs van de Nederlandse Dansdagen young audience award. She has also twice been nominated for the De Zwaan award of the VSCD Theatre and Concert Hall Federation.
ADI(C)SCO is a dance trip …
In the annual Club Guy & Roni Invites event, international dance company Club Guy & Roni works with talented up-and-coming artists it feels an affinity for and wants to bring to a wider audience. The event puts the new generation of dance makers on the map with urgent, hard-hitting and unmissable interdisciplinary performances. This year, after Kwame Asafo-Adjei, Dunja Jocic, Lunatics & Poets, and Mohamed Yusuf Boss, it’s the turn of Finnish-born choreographer Cecilia Moisio and singer and actor Sarah Janneh.
Moisio is one of the Netherlands’ most eclectic directors and choreographers, and a winner of the Prijs van de Nederlandse Dansdagen young audience award. She has also twice been nominated for the De Zwaan award of the VSCD Theatre and Concert Hall Federation.
ADI(C)SCO is a dance trip in search of the ultimate high, one that keeps going until you’re lost in your addiction. The performance is deeply rooted in the disco era and its drug culture, a party that gets out of hand and never ends. With its 1970s aesthetic, extravagant personalities, and electrifying beats, Moisio’s performance highlights the taboos and shame surrounding addiction. She grew up with an alcoholic father, so she has strong personal reasons for putting this issue on the map.
Sarah Janneh (1994) began her training at the Muziekconservatorium in Tilburg, went to Theaterschool Amsterdam in 2012, and graduated in 2016. She became a member of NITE (Nationaal Interdisciplinair Theater Ensemble) in 2021. Janneh has featured in the NITE performance Before/after, and in Witch hunt , Exit Macbeth, and Yara’s wedding, and makes regular film and television appearances. In 2023 she was a contestant in the reality TV programme Wie is de Mol? (Who’s the mole?)
We’ve already heard her singing in NITE’s large-scale interdisciplinary performances, and now she stages her first solo song programme for Club Guy & Roni Invites. Entitled Both worlds, it is a musical quest for her roots.
