Rocking (2021)
a dance-acrobatic performance around the theme of Balance, created by Paul van de Waterlaat under the wings of TENT House for contemporary circus.
The performers meticulously explore the invisible boundaries between moving and being set in motion.
Balancing in a world that we ourselves have shaken.
“Everybody knows the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied.” – Leonard Cohen
CREDITS
Inception, Creation & Direction: Paul van de Waterlaat
Performers: Xenia Bannuscher, Dries Vanwalle, Samuel Rhyner
Musical Composition: Georgia Nicolaou
Choreographic coaching: Piet van Dyke
Coaching and project leading: Hanneke Meijers
Production: TENT huis voor hedendaags circus
Photography: Hanneke Meijers
Residenties: Grand Theatre Groningen, Werkplaats Diepenheim
With Support from Makersfonds Tilburg
Future Zen Garden 5 (2019)
a 15 minute performance for moving objects played 80 times in a shipping container at Theaterfestival de Parade 2019 in Rotterdam, Den Haag and Amsterdam. The audience experiences a number of disposable materials magically transforming at the speed of an evening primrose, opening, into a summer scene. A calming performance in high contrast with the hustle and bustle of the festival site.
Production: Het Zuidelijk Toneel
Inception & Creation: Bram van Helden
Musical Composition: Georgia Nicolaou
Technical innovation: Thijn Kolk, Peter Roosen
FANTASTIC WOMEN (2018)
a performance by Bauwien van der Meer with music composed by 10 female composers
Beloven [Georgia Nicolaou] – Commissioned by November Music
In the man-dominated world that we are living in, the superficially accepted job of a prostitute might seem pleasant, enjoyable and socially embraceable. What happens when it comes to the violation of the woman’s inner world, to the lost pieces of that being that cannot return? They might have been already washed out, diffused, as the ashes dissolve in the North Sea water.
Bauwien van der Meer – soprano
Caecilia Boschman – piano
Jorinde Keesmaat – director
Desirée van Gelderen – light design
Sammy van den Heuvel – decor, costumes
Robin de Bruijn – dramaturgy
Copyright © 2018 by Stichting Donemus Beheer All rights reserved
Stichting Donemus Beheer, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
Score available for purchase or rental at:
http://www.bauwienvandermeer.nl/index.php?action=press&lang=EN
Silver Speech (2016)
a Dance Performance in collaboration with the choreographer Frederik Kaijser
Voices. An urge. An instinct.
Temptation.
A seducing call.
Free. Away. Free.
Free of thoughts. Reality. Free of control.
Free to flee. Act. React.
My innocent friend.
Free. Feel. To Be.
Featuring:
AKOM Ensemble conducted by Roberto Beltrán Zavala
Musicians:
Federico Dalprá – Flute /Alto Flute
Ken Kunita – Clarinet / Bass Clarinet
Christina Rawady – Bass Clarinet
Gabriele Petracco – Percussion
Fiona Robertson – Violin
Ana Martinez – Viola
Maria Quevedo Meloni – Cello
Georgia Nicolaou – Electronics [Voices: Nina Künzel, Georgia Nicolaou]
Dancers:
Amber Pansters
Erika Poletto
Karla Bonsoms
Matilde Tommasini
Elxis-Osis (2016)
a performance for Bass Clarinet, Cello and Dancers
ἕλξις-ὦσις, (force to attract – force to repell)
two poles, two characters, two worlds –
to match is difficult, but if they manage they
can be eternally undetachable.
William Hayter – Bass Clarinet
Mikaela Grönberg – Cello
Alexandre May, Julia Gomez Avilés – Choreography & Dance
I…that I am…am I…? (2015)
a Music Theatre performance
Voice: Nina Künzel
Actors: Nadira Jansen, Sarah Tabrizi, Filomena Dias, Soraya Garcia, Johan den Hartog
Ensemble: AKOM Ensemble directed by Roberto Beltrán Zavala
A mini abstract opera centered on the multiple sides of the same character. A game between the perception or even deception of the I and the constitution of the self as a fragmented, constantly changing being. It is five senses, five characters, five colors; different faces of her own self, all interfering into her most intimate thoughts.
TEXT
An adaptation of ‘Leugenbeeld’, a collection of Poems by Jan Nieuwenhuis
Do I see those same blue eyes,
The same face, deceived
By the sight of another –
– I –
– see a complete myself
At distance in the mirror
A clearly defined hushed lie.
Am I who I am
When I smell my own smell
You, your perfume
For months I have not
Smelled it
Fills me silently
With memories.
We are both here.
Overcooked to a pulp.
A residue of mingled tastes
In a cracked soil
From which I exhaust myself,
Find myself,
And oppress myself.
How you touch me where I don’t know myself
Your fingers push
How outside becomes inside
How we become not one or two
How my body merges, disappears,
Feeling nothing/Stop Feeling.
For months I’ve been listening to what resounds in me. Slamming doors and fucking neighbors are also mine from now on. I’ve deteriorated into the worst kind of music theatre. I only hear myself in a way I didn’t know I existed as: a micro polyphonic cluster. I don’t want to be anything else.
Singing free all those like-minded voices until I am nothing more than sound.
ProPositions (2014)
a Dance Theatre performance created in collaboration with the choreographer – actor Kamil Pilarski.
