Simon Bus
Simon Bus (Hoensbroek, 1989) is already deeply impressed by the eccentric power moves of Kujo the Crazy Water Buffalo at the age of twelve. He grew up in Limburg and was part of the fusion crew Limbonesië between 2004 and 2006. He quickly enters the Dutch B-boy Championship and does numerous international competitions and shows. In 2013 he graduated from the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts & Design (Video-Visual Communication). Despite the fact that he keeps his studies and dancing strictly separate, his B-boy name Statue reveals that he brings his 'feeling for image' to the breakdance scene. In 2014, during the Dutch Dance Days, he wins the Open Your Mind final. As a performer he can be seen in the work of Suchan Kinoshita (opening Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2012), Gotra/Joost Vrouenraets ( C-boy , 2012 and Go Charlie , 2013) Andre 'Drosha' Grekhov ( Boredom , 2016) and Shailesh Bahoran ( Aghori 2017). In recent years he has danced in the work of Guilherme Miotto: Shango Trio (2017), Two Boys (Maas theater en dans 2017) and Even Worse (DansBrabant, 2017).
In 2018, Simon made his first own production Watering A Flower, a duet for Alesya Dobysh and Snezhana Ezhkova supported by the three-year ThinX trajectory of Parktheater Eindhoven. Shortly after the start of a two-year FPK Nieuwe Makerstraject that he is designing with Corpo Máquina/Guilherme Miotto, he presents a solo for himself in the 4×4 route of Korzo's Cadancefestival. In the course of the same year, he made the duet Moon Grow Slow , which premiered in December during the Urban Dansdagen in Eindhoven. In 2019, he made the solo Self-portrait, man on orange floor at Korzo. As a follow-up to this work, he is now making Three Studies (for a self-portrait) with the support of PLAN and Corpo; the work can be seen at Parktheater Eindhoven on 16 November 2021. With contorted limbs and poses, dancers Liam McCall, Alesya Dobysh and Bus themselves show a self-portrait with hints of breakdance, house dance, butoh and modern dance.
For Simon, breakdance is synonymous with uniqueness and originality. As a B-boy, he develops his own movement language from which creation is only a small step. Exploring the extreme possibilities of his own body, he increasingly examines other bodies. The starting point for his work is a mix of fascinations for the discomfort of daily life and the resilience and expressiveness of the body. The game between having and losing control is a recurring element in this. In addition to breakdance as the ultimate source of inspiration, he finds points of contact in Butoh and in the work of Albert Camus, Egon Schiele, Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch. Just like Shane Boers, Simon feels inspired in his creation by Instinctive Performance, the specific approach to movement with which Guilherme Miotto stimulates people to open up the body, to activate the personal layers of physical knowledge and encourages dancers to enter into a dialogue with their technique instead of simply performing it.
In 2022, Simon Bus won the Innovation Award of the Dutch Dance Days Maastricht 2022.
