{"id":3536,"date":"2019-10-08T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:28","slug":"percy-muntslag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/08\/percy-muntslag\/","title":{"rendered":"Percy Muntslag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Percy Muntslag<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dutch National Ballet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"Percy Muntslag was an important figure in the Surinamese theater from the 1960s. He was, among other things, a dancer with the Dutch National Ballet during the 1960\/61 season.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1960, Muntslag choreographed Tango Classique<\/em> with music by August Meye. In 1966, Muntslag and Gerda Zaandam brought the ballet Swietie<\/em> to music by Eddy Snijders.<\/p>\n

In 1968, he started his own ballet studio, with which he brought, among other things, a program of dancing based on his own stories.<\/p>\n

In the 1970s, Muntslag regularly participated in productions of the Doe Theater under Thea Doelwijt and Henk Tjon. The Doe Theater made socially critical cabaret and theater performances. They started from a stage where the great cultural diversity in Suriname formed the breeding ground for the theater. Muntslag also regularly collaborated with the choreographer Ilse-Marie Hajary, the founder of the “dogla” style.<\/p>\n

In 1978 Muntslag choreographed the afro-Surinamese folklore show Mekoenoe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Muntslag also taught at the School of Dramatic Art, Suriname. It was established in 1965 and originated from the Cultural Committee Suriname (CCS). The school was led by Henk Zoutendijk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 1982 a festival was organized for the 145th anniversary of the Thalia Theater.<\/span> The semi-professional National Ballet of Suriname, which was founded five years earlier, presented a performance consisting of various choreographies, including Episodes<\/em> by Muntslag.<\/span> In this performance, Muntslag translated emotions of a human life into dance form.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In 1985 at the Mickery Theater, Muntslag made, along with Thea Doelwijt, Mi kondre tru, mi lobi yu<\/em> (My country, I love you), an experimental theater play on the theme of forgetting, forgiving, and surviving.<\/span> On December 8, 1988, he performed in the reading of The Tears of Den Uyl<\/em> (written by Hugo Pos) at the seventh commemoration of the December murders.<\/span> In six short acts, Pos outlines the developments from 1975 to 1983 with journalist Jozef Slagveer as the central figure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Percy Muntslag, Theater Encyclopedie<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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