Adi(c)sco - 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.  

About Cecilia Moisio

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. 

Moisio has worked with Club Guy & Roni on several occasions, and makes expressively theatrical pieces on key contemporary issues. Her thrillingly excitingly sensual, in-your-face performance about the vulva, V, produced in collaboration with Club Guy & Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club (junior company), was a smash hit at the De Parade festival.

Cecilia Moisio is fascinated by the unconscious behaviour patterns forced on us by others’  expectations and social norms. As a self-proclaimed “psychological activist”, she is always looking for the factors underlying our motives, emotions, and behaviour. Her performances confront her  audiences with unspoken taboos and break down elaborately constructed facades. They are dynamic and interdisciplinary, somewhere between theatre, dance, and performance art, full of raw emotions and humour and pure, controlled choreography.

About ADI(C)SCO

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.