Wanderlust is a poetic concert about coming home within ourselves and each other.
With this solo, I question the feeling of belonging and feeling at home in a more and more alienating world. Early childhood as our first home forms my starting point: a state of mind in which the lines of what is possible and what is the norm are fluent and a lot is experienced through the senses – an ultimate and unfiltered connection with our surroundings. In this intimate performance I invite the audience on a journey through musical and poetical landscapes in search for ‘Geborgenheit/geborgenheid’ (comfort, warmth, security)
For this piece I write and produce own songs, which I am performing live, intertwined with poetry and movement. The performance is in Dutch, English and German.
Wanderlust comes in two versions – the trekking version, which can be performed at different sites in nature, and a version for a theatre space.
The trekking version
The theatre version
credits
concept, composition, text, performance – Philipp Cahrpit
creative producer – Jaukje van Wonderen
light design, scenography – Chris Handberg
costume design – Esra Çopur
blanket creation – Alex Murphy
trailer – Sendeza Studios
foto’s – Niels Knelis, Alwin van Wijngaarden
If you scroll down, you can find some glimpses of the creative proces. 🏔️
“We dragen een even indrukwekkende als onzegbare voorgeschiedenis met ons mee, een ondenkbaar anders zijn, waarvan we ons niets bewust kunnen herinneren. We blijven er volgens [Lou] Salomé echter wel onbewust naar terugverlangen, omdat het ons ooit met alles en iedereen om ons heen verbond; het is een van de eerste bronnen van ons heimwee.”
– Joke Hermsen, Onder een andere Hemel – Over heimwee en vertepijn
En daar in de verte
Heel klein en blij en kwetsbaar
Ben jij
Een jong kind
Oh, I never knew that I would walk
In that parade of tall and gracious clowns
Rehearsals at De Witte Schuit
Home as a place of recognition in the landscape and the other.
The mountain
En aan het eind van de straat zie je de berg die de stad in wandelt. Je verwelkomt hem.
Home is where I can find beauty. Where I can relate to or recognize myself in things.
– Ornella
First draft at Explore The North 2023
I performed a first 15 minutes on a route within the festival. One audience member came towards me afterwards and said that, through the performance, they felt taken by their hand and comforted.
Instilling Space at Winternights 2023
Fashion designer Esra Copur and I collaborated for Winternights Maastricht. We let Esra’s designs (which were created around the theme of ‘taking up space’ of her performance Te Be To Exist) and my music (of Wanderlust), meet each other and let their dialogue tell a new story.
Residency at Schiermonnikoog
During a residency at Schiermonnikoog, I made the demo So Schön So Blau, an ode to all the blue I saw while I was on the island. How can I feel home in nature, dissolving into the environment, becoming blue?
First song Negative Space during TalentLAB
During a residency at TalentLAB Maastricht in April 2023, I pushed myself to write a song and perform it live. I built the soundscape by layering environmental sounds and harmonies of my own voice, creating an 8 minute piece that builds up to a dancing part.
see the sun in my head all alone
sonic voices calling planets home
and clouds rain colours into the sea
and clouds rain colours into the sea
philipp 