We wish you all a very happy New Year. Warner is in Suriname and will go soon to Equador.
He is giving workshops there until the middle of January.
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We have lots to tell you about since we were in Teheran at the end of January.
We performed Bokkesprongen six times in the Fadjr festival, the Holland Festival of Iran!
We had to make some adjustments to the performance and to the costumes, it was an amazing experience to be there. After each performance we had a talk with the audience. Even before we were home this email came in:
i’ve just come home from your performance (fadjr festival). i don't know what to say. it was really exciting. i feel like being a little girl, running here and there, looking for you in the yard. i know nothing from the intellectual and artistic aspect of your work. all i know is that i loved it cos it was something out of this dull, serious and grown up world. and i don't want to ruin my simple feeling of joy by thinking about a "philosophy" behind your performance. thank you. i will be missing you
Who is AARDLEK?
AARDLEK is a brand new theater collective of seven autonomous and professional artists, a manager and production manager, that makes location-specific, expressive theatre without text. The public space of city and country is our inspirations and play area. www.aardlek.nu
Aardlek’s first performance was the winter spectacle Ijsheiligen in Delft on 4 January for the opening of the Delft Culture Year. It was the first performance that we made without Warner’s artistic input. The artistic direction will be done in teams of two and will rotate through the collective.
At the end of the week we are off to Bochum with Bokkesprongen, for the new theater festival K15 in Bochum Immediately after that Aardlek is making a special BOEKGRUIS for the opening of the newest building of the Ministry OC&W. After the official opening by Queen Beatrix, Guests can explore the building coming upon small acts by Aardlek. The event will culinate in a grand finale opening with a 10 man fanfare band from Brussels. On Saturday, 27 june, we perform Bokkesprongen in Zaandam at the Moisefestival. This is the first time we will perform this production in our own back yard.
Fadjr International Theater Festival is an annual event in Iranian theater that is regarded as one of the most important theatre events in the country.
We are hosted by the Ministry of Culture and the Dramatic Arts Center in Teheran. Our flight and freight costs are reduced with the generosity of Iran Air and Kales Air Services.
With IJsheiligen, Warner & Consorten / Aardlek, Blikopener Delft and the Theaternetwork Delft open the Cultural Year of Delft with an explosion.Impressive characters assault public with sweeping music, humor and street songs. Enormous installations glide through the city and are transformed during the performance into impressive apparatuses. The audience will see the city as they have never experienced it before.
This retinue of absurd, odd, potentially menacing and especially fantasy full street performance begins at the Theater de Veste at 16.15. The route runs from the theatre to the Brabantse Turfmarkt and the Jakob Gerritstraat to the Markt, where show starts at 17.00. This special performance if free.
Warner and André were invited to hot foot it to Iran to give workshops at the street theatre festival in Marivan. The workshops were given to the professional performers that were in the official program of the festival. Given their success, it’s possible to spot us in Iran in the near future.
The following day a photo of the mayor with the carbide cannon was on the front page of the local paper.
In the same weekend we performed in the Uitmarkt, the official opening of the cultural season. It was the first time that we pIayed Bokkesprongen in Amsterdam, and the public was extremely enthusiastic. The audience consisted of festival visitors, unsuspecting passers-by, local residents and a lot of others. In the Parool we scored two of the five photographs in a reportage concerning the Uitmarkt.
The primary reason for the NFPK is that they consider that Warner & Consorten haven’t developed new enough work within the location theatre discipline. We think very much to the contrary, but have placed bad news behind us, we aim with full energy and lots of courage at a future full streets and location theatre.
Warner established Dogtroep in 1975 and led it the first 15 years. Now, 33 years later and a number of artistic directors further, the location theatre company is coming to an end. All the Consorten saw the film and found it very inspiring. Therefore a must-see!
In this performance we research improvisation structures for object and choreographic theater. Every evening there are clear starting points: clear beginnings, rules for playing and secret missions, individual orders and plans for which the other performers have no idea.
With these basic ground rules various aspects receive special attention: Sound, dance, sculptural installation and voice. Three evenings after each other, every evening a unique and new performance.
The shows in the Muiderpoorttheater were a success, we were warmly welcomed at the theater and by the audience. We hope to play ‘The Hand that Makes Mistakes’ again next season.
