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 environwent we are in?
Waterlichamen was developed during a two-year process. At its base lies the practice of claiming the freedom of change within a slowed-down creative process and creating within the collective.
Waterlichamen originates from a collective effort with me as a maker at its center. Waterlichamen is a theatrical encounter between performers and the audience, as well as between audience members. It oscillates between the collective and the individual, the dripping and the dried out, theatrical images and the here and now. Can you surrender to not knowing and being together with someone you do not yet know? What forms of unease do you encounter?
‘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.’
@NielsKnelis
Together with Max Jonker, Timon Persoon, Alex Murphy, Marijn Graven
Creative production: Jaukje van Wonderen
Production: Jesse Korte, Stella Uffen
Pictures: Niels Knelis
produced by Stichting De Ruimtemakers
With the support of @station_noord , de Gemeente Groningen en Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
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