Thu 30 May 2024 20:00 Fri 31 May 2024 18:00 Fri 31 May 2024 21:00
Location
BAK
Duration
120 min
Language
English & Bahasa Indonesia (English subtitles)
Country
Indonesia/Netherlands/Switzerland
Price
€18,- / €15,-
Themes
Non-western, Face from the crowd, War on stage
Edition
SPRING 2024
Accessibility
Disclaimer
This performance features powerful sounds, and atmospheric fog/smoke effects. Additionally, dialogues will explore sensitive and profound topics, including colonialism and violence, among others.
A multidisciplinary performance featuring video installations, live painting and music. Post-colonial descendants from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Indonesia address questions around colonialism, cultural and personal biases: how does our history continue to influence our present? Who can actually speak about the past? Whose voice is being heard?
How does our history continue to influence our present? In this production post-colonial descendants from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Indonesia unite in artistic research on colonialism, as well as cultural and personal biases.
Through meetings with Indonesian experts from various workfields, they explore methods of dealing with colonialism and decolonization through dialogues. Their collective efforts will lead to the creation of The Indonesian Dialogues, a multidisciplinary performance featuring video installations, live illustrations, music and storytelling. The audience is invited to navigate between different perspectives and to engage with the dialogue themselves.
In this extended tourversion of his DAS Choreography graduation production, Souza, an Amsterdam based Brazilian choreographer, is taking choreography as an escape strategy from the flattening forces of life. The work is a game between speech and body: the repetition and entanglement of texts and gestures from culture, philosophy and dance open the mind.
Eisa Jocson returns to SPRING to continue her consistent research into the exploitation of the citizens of the global south. The Filipino Superwoman Band is a pop-up girl band, teasing us with energetic music and ecstatic choreography, to uncover for us the realities of the global industry known as OFM (Overseas Filipino Musician).
What can a box of family photos from an Amsterdam home contain? An artistic investigation by a Polish duo that takes us into the rooms where the future of the global order was agreed upon, and to small remote villages on the other side of the world.
