Club Guy & Roni is an international dance company from Groningen in the Netherlands,"Comedy Fringe Dwellers". Dance Australia, 20 Mar 2012 led by choreographers Roni Haver and Guy Weizman. The company was founded in 2002.
The performances are characterized by collaborations with artists in music, film and theatre and are generally considered to be of modern nature. Club Guy & Roni makes productions that tour through Europe. Since 2009 the company is subsidized by the NFPK.
In 2018 Club Guy & Roni started the interdisciplinary movement called NITE together with Noord Nederlands Toneel + Het Muziek + Den Haag.
Performances Club Guy & Roni have performed at various festivals, like Oerol, Noorderzon and De Parade, the American Jacob's Pillow Festival and the Grec Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
International co-productions The Club has performed in many European countries. Since 2010, Haver and Weizman are considered 'artists in residence' at the Oldenburgisches State Theater en since then they have co-produced 'Alpha Boys (2010), 'Miraculous Wednesday' (2011) and Roméo and Juliette' (2013). In September 2014 they moved along with the artistic staff of Oldenburg to take up residency at the State Theatre in Mainz.
In addition, the choreographers have also been working together with the Moscow dance company Tsekh Contemporary Dance Centre since 2011 and have produced a Russian 'L'Histoire du Soldat’."L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT". Golden Mask. In Tuscany and Belgrado,East European Performing Arts Platform Club Guy & Roni has also done co-productions, as well as with the Gothenburg Ballet (Sweden), Schauspiel Kölln (Germany) and Carte Blanche (Norway).SceneWeb - When Clarity Visits - by Club Guy and Roni
Awards Russian Golden Mask National Theatre Award in the category Best Ballet Master/Best Choreographer for the in Russia produced version of ‘L’Histoire du Soldat’ (2013) The Swan for best dance production for 'Midnight Rising'. (2013) Igor Podsiadly: The Swan for best Dance Performance for 'Naked Lunch' (2014) In January 2026, the Jiří Kylián Ring was awarded to the duo Haver Weizman.
Nominations Roni Haver: Silver Theater dance award for ‘Albert and Panja’ (2001) Roni Haver: The Swan for best Dance Performance for ‘Myrrh and Cinnamon’ (2005) VSCD Theatre Award for ‘Heelhuids en Halsoverkop’ (2009) The Swan in the category Best Dance Production for ‘Alpha Boys’ (2011) Russian Golden Mask National Theatre Award in the category Innovation/Best Production for the in Russia produced version of ‘L’Histoire du Soldat’ (2013) Dunja Jocic: The Swan for best Dance Performance for 'Midnight Rising' (2013)
Works
The Mother of All Lies - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2003 The Language of Walls (on The Other Side of Day) - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2003 Barbie Q - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2004 Myrrh and Cinnamon - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2004 Welcome to Soledad - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2006 All Is Well - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2006 Poetic Disasters - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2008 Desert Highway - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2009 Heelhuids en Halsoverkop - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2009 Pinball And Grace - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2009 The Language of Walls - a.k.a. Alpha Boys - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2009 FKK - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2010 Alice in Wonderland - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2010 L'histoire du soldat - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2011 Miraculous Wednesday - Stichting Grand Theatre - 2011 Messiaen 1.0 - Club Guy & Roni - 2012 Midnight Rising - Club Guy & Roni - 2012 L'Histoire du Soldat - Club Guy & Roni - 2013 CRASH - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2013 Bagatellen - Club Guy & Roni - 2013 Firebird - Club Guy & Roni - 2013 L'histoire du soldat (Russische versie) - Club Guy & Roni - 2013 Naked Lunch - Club Guy & Roni - 2013 Niemandsland - De Steeg - 2014 Gift for Ifinity - Club Guy & Roni - 2014 Offending the Audience - Club Guy & Roni - 2014 My Private Odyssey - Club Guy & Roni - 2014 Mechanical Ecstasy - Club Guy & Roni - 2015 Phobia - Club Guy & Roni - 2015 Sneeuwwitje - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2015 Kaspar - Club Guy & Roni - 2016 Happiness - Club Guy & Roni - 2016 Music for Bars - Club Guy & Roni - 2016 Carrousel - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2017 Penthesilea - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2017 Self-accusation - Club Guy & Roni - 2017 Tetris mon amour - Club Guy & Roni - 2017 Salam - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2018 Faust TM - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2018 One Million People and Me - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2018 Fassbinder towards- In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden - Poetic Disasters Club - 2018 Mechanical Ecstasy - Club Guy & Roni - 2018 Brave New World 2.0 - NITE - 2019 Carry / Jump / Catch - Club Guy & Roni - 2019 Love - Club Guy & Roni - 2019 Mechanical Ecstasy - Club Guy & Roni - 2020 Swan Lake - Club Guy & Roni - 2020 All That Follows – NITE - 2021 Celestial Space – NITE - 2021 Motel - NITE - 2021 Odyssey – NITE - 2021 Rail Rat – NITE - 2021 Freedom - Club Guy & Roni - 2021 Lubeck - Club Guy & Roni - 2021 The Previous Owner - Club Guy & Roni - 2021 Zinderella - Maas theater en dans - 2022 Witch Hunt - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2022 Vijand - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2022 The Underground – NITE - 2022 Fortune - Club Guy & Roni - 2022 Postcards from Another Place - Club Guy & Roni - 2022 Laba - Club Guy & Roni - 2022 Als het anders loopt - Het Houten Huis - 2022 My First Tragedy- Iphigeneia - Noord Nederlands Toneel - 2023 Yara's Wedding – NITE - 2023 Like A Prayer - Club Guy & Roni - 2023 Islands of Empathy (in A Sea of Chaos) - Club Guy & Roni - 2023 Adi(c)sco - Club Guy & Roni - 2024 Faith - Club Guy & Roni - 2024 Morning Ecstasy - Club Guy & Roni - 2024 Nachtwacht – NITE - 2025 A Funny Little Show about Endings - Club Guy & Roni - 2025 Bad Nature - Club Guy & Roni - 2025 Hope – NITE - 2025
Additional projects In 2011 Club Guy & Roni initiated the 'Duizend Dansjes Festival', to raise money for the UMCG Cancer Research Fund in Groningen. Eventually, €15,140 were raised for the Fund.
Move it! is a participation project from 2011 in which Club Guy & Roni and the Noord Nederlands Orkest teach a group of youths a choreography based on orchestral work.
Every year Club Guy & Roni organizes the Club Guy & Roni Weekend Break Festival, a festival full of dance, theatre, live music, film and art. Club Guy & Roni seek contact with young, local talents for the production of this festival. The first edition was in 2013 in the Grand Theatre in Groningen.
The Poetic Disasters Club The Poetic Disasters Club is the junior company of Club Guy & Roni (and later NITE), founded in 2013 as a talent development platform for young dancers, actors, and musicians who are about to graduate or have just graduated from their training programs. The initiative was established by choreographers Guy Weizman and Roni Haver as part of their Groningen-based dance company Club Guy & Roni.
In 2016, the Poetic Disasters Club performed Kaspar at De Parade festival, a loose adaptation of Peter Handke's experimental play directed by Hendrik Aerts and choreographed by Angela Herenda, which explored themes of communication and identity through dance-theater.
References
External links Website Club Guy & Roni