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OFFSPRING
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For the performance of Tim van Loon, please take your phone and headphones with you!
OFFSPRING is the festival’s platform where four makers courageously share their works in progress and reflect on them together with the audience. This year’s participating artists are Shaquille George, Jana Jacuka, Tim van Loon and Emma van den Elshout & Just van Bommel.
OFFSPRING is organised in collaboration with Dansateliers, DansBrabant, VIA ZUID, and FAAM. It is an event that brings together makers, audiences, and peers for meeting and exchange. The evening includes a break with a cup of delicious soup.
Works in progress
Nos Bida – Shaquille George / DansAteliers
Nos Bida began as a personal journey of Shaquille George. It started as their solo performance: a way to explore memory, identity and ancestral connection through movement. For this research, it’s evolving into a collective research project. This research creates space for collective remembrance, resistance, and healing with other queer and nonbinary artists of colour.
In this new research phase, Nos Bida evolves into a collective process, grounded in the following main research question: How do we as Black bodies, identify with who we are through the experiences of our ancestors?
Shaquille has the wish to invite others to expand the conversation and explore what it means to carry memory, resistance, and transformation together. Therefore they open up the space for multiple bodies, voices, and stories. Nos Bida is a call to remember. It’s a chance to reclaim erased histories, to center queer Black voices, to bring together a community to share stories and to dance to something deeper, together.
