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Play Time V: On Tour | "Dance is moving nice and rhytmically to music" | Artemis, Netherlands
"Dance is moving nice and rhytmically to music" ("Dans is lekker ritmisch bewegen op Muziek") – Theater Artemis, Netherlands
Directed by Jetse Batelaan
Duration: 50 minutes, recommended for ages 12 and above
In Dutch and English, with German subtitles
About the play:
This dance piece for young audiences claims not to be a dance piece, but of course, it is. However, it's one in which paper strips lift off the floor and walls slide back and forth on the stage. The choreography of things also extends to the three performers who are clearly waiting for their children.
Enabling Challenging Experiences: Theater Artemis
Theater Artemis is an internationally touring company based in the Dutch municipality of 's-Hertogenbosch. Its core audience consists of young people aged 4 to 18. Artemis doesn't have its own performance venue but operates from a rehearsal space. Artistic projects involving young people are developed in schools or community centers. The philosophy of Artemis is, "It is very important for us that art is a space where we encounter the chaos of the world and encounter the unexpected, the uncertain, and practice it," says Jetse Batelaan, who has been directing Artemis Theater since 2013. They don't stage theatrical texts; instead, Artemis and Batelaan, as its influential director, focus on creating plays collaboratively with the young audience.
Art should not protect children but challenge them. They should have experiences that are not just comfortable but also overturn hierarchies and rules. In short, the mission is productive irritation. In the politically conservative Netherlands, it is not always easy to maintain this freedom, according to Batelaan.
Theater Artemis was founded in the early 1990s and is funded by the city, region, and national government. Every four years, the staff submits a new funding application. The funding is secured due to the theater's high reputation, and it receives invitations to festivals both nationally and internationally. Jetse Batelaan received the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and the ITI Award at the Festival Theater der Welt in 2020.
"Dance is moving nice and rhytmically to music" ("Dans is lekker ritmisch bewegen op Muziek")
Directed by Jetse Batelaan, Set Design by Jetse Batelaan, Eva Koopmans, Costume Design by Liesbet Swings,
Dramaturgy by Marcus Dros, Anna Wagner, Music by Toben Piel.
Featuring: Elias De Bruyne, Tjebbe Roelofs, Esther Snelder.
A co-production of Theater Artemis and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in collaboration with Tanzplattform Rhein-Main.
Duration: 60 minutes, recommended for ages 12 and above.
www.artemis.nl
For an overview of the thematical series "Play Time V: On Tour" klick here
"Play Time – Stream and Discours Theater for Young Audiences" is a cooperation of nachtkritik.de and the Kulturstiftung des Bundes within the context of "Jupiter – Darstellende Künste für junges Publikum" . Sponsored by the Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
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