Two performers, a musician and a set designer search alongside the audience for ways to let the individual body overflow into a deeper, collective body. How do we build playful bridges between ourselves, the other and the environment we are in?
Waterlichamen was developed during a two-year process during different residencies (see pictures below). At its base lies the practice of claiming the freedom of change within a slowed-down creative process and creating within the collective.
‘Last summer I met a group of people on the shore, and as we played at the boundary between land and sea I shed tears of happiness. “This is what life is about,” I thought. Do we not need this playful connecting as much as the water we drink? As we were playing on the beach I forgot about myself and became part of a collective. I let go of ‘me’ and streamed into the other.’
Joost Ramaer of the Theaterkrant wrote some beautiful words about the premiere of Waterlichamen, you can read it here:
Part 3 – premiere at De Witte Schuit, our homebase
Part 2 – Residency at the Grand Theatre Groningen
Part 1 – Residency at the Grand Theatre Groningen
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Together with Max Jonker, Timon Persoon, Alex Murphy, Marijn Graven, Mieke den Braber
Creative production: Jaukje van Wonderen
Production: Jesse Korte, Stella Uffen
Pictures: Niels Knelis
produced by Stichting De Ruimtemakers
With the support of Station Noord, Gemeente Groningen and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
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