Every year, Festival Tweetakt offers space to the newest generation of theatre makers. On one evening, you can see three special graduation performances. Devised and made by Meike Derksen, Luc ten Broek and Claudia Kanne. And performed by themselves, alone or with fellow students.
CARRÀ by Meike Derksen
Let yourself be swept along into a world full of glitter, dance and excess, inspired by the unstoppable stage energy and flamboyant TV aesthetics of Raffaella Carrà, the Italian glamour icon. It starts out as entertaining, physically performed musical theatre. Slowly, it starts to feel uncomfortable. A performance about the desire to be entertained. And about the realisation that you cannot dance or sing reality away, however much you might like to.
Concept: Meike Derksen, Master of Music at ArtEZ University of the Arts
Performance: Meike Derksen, Noa Claassen, Kees Nieuwerf
Costumes: Zenzi Alwar
GIBBON by Luc ten Broek
You have to show something that blows everyone away. What do you do? This mime performance is about wanting to outdo yourself. Returning to instinct and being afraid of risk.
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gibbon OVERTREFFEN
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PERFECT gibbon
gibbon WILLEN gibbon
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gibbon gibbon DRUIVEN
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gibbon TWIJFELEN
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TRUCJES gibbon
gibbon gibbon DRUK
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gibbon ALLES gibbon
gibbon GESTOLEN
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gibbon SORRY gibbon
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Concept and performance: Luc ten Broek, Acting at HKU Theatre
Guidance: Martijn Schrier
I found out that my name means Imprisoned and there’s nothing I can do about that, but it does explain quite a lot about Claudia Kanne
Since Claudia knows what her name means, she understands why she is trapped inside her head; she is doomed, it is her fate. Her solo is a sincere experiment and possible lifeline to free herself, and to make her skip through flower fields at sunset.
Claudia: ‘As soon as a caterpillar pupates, it turns into a kind of soup. A soupy cocoon, like a filled water balloon. Even the brains turn into slime! I think that with humans, when they withdraw for too long, it works the same way; all their Thoughts and Worries, everything becomes one smoothie. But once that caterpillar is a butterfly, it gets its brain reconstructed exactly as it was. I don’t know if that also applies to humans. In our case, that water balloon might very well burst. BANG.’
Concept and performance: Claudia Kanne, Acting at HKU Theatre
Guidance: Katelijne Beukema
