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Wervel

Everybody of the audience gets a grey dress to wear, so when the audience sits down on the benches in a circle, a light-grey ring is formed. In front of the audience is a white ring, behind a dark grey one. During the performance, these start to move very slowly as if they are floating. In the middle of the circle is a woman lying underneath a big object that looks like a stone. When the sound starts the
stone starts to float. The woman rises. Once she stands on her feet, she starts to turn around slowly, like a whirling Derwish. She speeds up. Her whole body goes in and bends but she keeps
on turning. The audience can watch this incredible force of nature from a safe distance. Until, after 45 minutes, she unexpectedly breaks out of the centre. Sound of drumming. With a great power she widens her rounds, coming very close to the audience which can not be certain whether she is still in control. As the music softens, the woman softens, trying to reach out of the inner circle.
There doesn’t seem to be a way out. She can only go back to the centre. She slows down, she keeps on turning. A far away sound. Fade out.

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Credits: 

concept and performance Boukje Schweigman

set and lighting design  Theun Mosk

music  Paul Koek

artistic support Rob List

sounddesign Pieter Nieuwint

costumes Aukje Koelstra

technicians Jeroen van Heijningen, Gjalt Vlam

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