8: METAMORPHOSIS
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24 nov20:00 - 21:30TR25 Schouwburg, RotterdamGrote zaal ongeplaceerd
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25 nov20:00 - 21:30TR25 Schouwburg, RotterdamGrote zaal ongeplaceerd
We are at many turning points at once. How do we deal with that? 8: Metamorphosis is an invitation for a reappraisal of what we have and therefore of where we are going.
The ice is melting, the climate is changing, the balance of power is starting to shift. The future holds great uncertainty. Eight men – dancers, singers and a drummer – draw the audience into a ritual for a new era. Inspired by the mathematical transitions in the illusory art of M.C. Escher, familiar patterns transform into new possibilities. 8: Metamorphosis is both a dance performance and a contemporary opera about embracing the changes that lie ahead. Will they come in a gradual process or as a series of painful shocks?
Against the background of the climate crisis, 8: Metamorphosis is an invitation to rethink existing structures. Is there another way of manhood possible? How do we face the future of humanity? Director and choreographer Nicole Beutler slowly but surely melts all known patterns until space is created for a new dreamed future.
The design of the piece is special: stage, hall, performers and audience all become part of one theatrical landscape.
Winner VSCD Mimeprijs 2020/2021
At the Nederlands Theater Festival 2021 8: Metamorphosis won the VSCD Mimeprijs 2020/2021. The theatre piece was also nominated for the Swan for the most impressive dance performance of 2019-2020.
Nicole Beutler
Director and choreographer Nicole Beutler creates performances at the intersection of dance, (music) theater and visual arts. An innovative voice in the Dutch dance landscape for twenty years.
In the coming years, Beutler will be working on a new trilogy about the climate crisis: Rituals of transformation (towards a new humanity). The first part Ginkgo (or: 56 million years ago there were palm trees on the North Pole) will premiere in 2022. It will be a requiem for the world as we know it.
“Imponerende dansopera over de patriarchale structuur die van geen wijken wil weten”
Team
concept, regie en choreografie Nicole Beutler muziek Gary Shepherd en Henry Purcell licht Minna Tiikkainen kostuum Jessica Helbach scenografie Julian Maiwald dramaturgie Igor Dobricic met Arnout Lems, Dominic Kraemer, Felix Schellekens, Frank Rosaly, Joshi Martina, Rob Polmann, Sebastian Pickering Pedersen en Timo Tembuyser
coproductie O. Rotterdam, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam met steun van Ammodo, Fonds 21, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst