IVANA MÜLLER - WE ARE STILL WATCHING
made by
Ivana Müller
in collaboration with
Andrea Bozic,
David Weber Krebs,
Jonas Rutgeerts
lighting design &
technical coordination
Martin Kaffarnik
production
I'M'COMPANY
with the financial support of
Performing Arts Fund NL, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and SNS Reaal Fonds.
with kind support of
Het Veem theatre,
Amsterdam (NL)
duration approx. 60 minutes
available languages English, French, German, Croatian, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Hungarian, Estonian, Romanian / new translations on request
performance space
flexible, cf technical rider
availability open
touring party 2 pax
freight none
links & downloads
> performance sheet (EN)
> dossier de diffusion (FR)
> context
> past in pictures
> HR photos (password)
> technical rider (password)
archives (not exhaustive)
2019
We Are Still Watching is performed by spectators; by an instant community of "audience members" that changes every evening of the show. And as they change, the piece also radically changes every time it is performed.
We Are Still Watching has the form of a “reading rehearsal” in which spectators encounter each other while reading a script together. During approximately an hour spent in company of each other, spectators create and perform a community, making decisions individually and collectively while « simply » reading a text that someone else has written for them.
In the “mini-society” that’s being created each evening of the show, everybody slowly but surely gets his or her role… Everybody speaks in the "I-form", everybody reads badly and everybody engages one way or another although no one ever read the script before and no one knows what will happen next. We Are Still Watching is a piece in which the idea of “spectacle” slowly shifts to where we least expect it. Something that for a moment could look like a bad theatre play, becomes an invitation to look beyond what is being scripted. While still staying in the realm of theatre and representation We Are Still Watching leaves place for something "real" to happen.
« If you're just comfortably assuming you have all the agency in your life, you should go get shaken by this play. »
Portland Mercury, 2013
« The excellent ‘We Are Still Watching’ is an exception to the rule’ (…) Let’s pass on the finesse of the writing (it requires quite some talent to imagine the reactions of the different spectator profiles when facing such a dilemma), it’s the device itself of this smart and self-reflective piece that surprises by its evocative power ». Libération, 2014
We Are Still Watching was made by Ivana Müller in collaboration with Amsterdam based choreographer Andrea Bozic, Brussels based artist and theatre director David Weber-Krebs & Brussels based dramaturge Jonas Rutgeerts. The piece was developed within the framework of Ivana Müller's Encounters project (Frascati, Amsterdam 2012) and created in English. At this moment the piece exists in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Spanish, Hungarian, Estonian and Slovak translations.
DATES
3 October 2019
Hellerau, Dresden (DE)
16 September 2019
Lafayette Anticipations / Festival d'Automne, Paris (FR)
5, 6 and 7 April 2019
TEN Teatro Eliseo Nuoro, Nuoro, Sardegna (IT)
20 October 2018
eXplore Festival, Bucarest (RO)
14 and 15 May 2018
Danse de tous les sens, Falaise (FR)
1 February 2018
Festival Pharenheit (CCN du Havre Normandie), Le Havre (FR)
18 and 19 November 2017
Festival Contemporanea de Dança / SESC 24 de Maio, Sao Paulo (BR)
8 and 9 November 2017
TAP / Rencontres Michel Foucault, Poitiers (FR)
13 and 14 October 2017
Schauspiel Leipzig / Residenz, Leipzig (DE)
7 October 2017
Nuit Blanche 2017, Paris (FR)
20 May 2017
Ménagerie de verre, Paris (FR)
26 January 2017
WIELS, La nuit des idées, Bruxelles (FR)
10 December 2016
Le Rive Gauche, Scène conventionnée, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (FR)
25 November 2016
OPEN Festival, SIN Culture Centre, Budapest (HU)
12 and 13 November 2016
La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES)
15 October 2016
L'Échangeur, CDCN, Château-Thierry (FR)
7, 8 and 9 July 2016
Baltoscandal International Festival, Rakvere (Estonia)
28 May 2016
Festival Extrapôle / Pôle Sud, CDCN, Strasbourg (FR)
26, 27 and 28 January 2016
Le Carré - Les Colonnes, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles (FR)
27 September 2015
Divadelna Nitra International Theatre Festival, Nitra (Slovakia)
25 and 26 September 2015
Theater Freiburg, Freiburg-am-Brisgau (DE)
20 and 21 September 2015
Ganz Novi Festival, Zagreb (HR)
7 June 2015
Festival Latitudes Contemporaines, Lille (FR)
5 May - 22 November 2015
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT)
24 April 2015
Le Carreau du Temple, Paris (FR)
24 and 25 March 2015
La Villette, Salle Boris Vian, Paris (FR)
25 October 2014
Carovana S.M.I., Caglieri (IT)
3 and 4 October 2014
brut, Vienna (AT)
30 Sep, 1 and 3 October 2014
Crossing The Line Festival (FIAF), New York (USA)
30 September 2014
Teatro Metastasio, Contemporanea Festival, Prato (IT)
26 September 2014
Terni International Performing Arts Festival, Terni (IT)
10 September 2014
Short Theatre, Rome (IT)
28 and 29 August 2014
OperaEstate Festival, Bassano del Grappa (IT)
25 and 26 August 2014
Festival Castel dei Mondi, Andria (IT)
23 May 2014
Staatsschauspielhaus, Dresden (DE)
28 February 2014
Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)
25, 26 and 27 September 2013
STUK, Leuven (BE)
21 and 22 September 2013
TBA-Festival, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland (USA)
21 September 2013
Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon (PT)
29 and 30 April 2013
HAU / Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
11 January 2013
Chassé Theater, Breda (NL)
19 and 20 December 2012
Theater Kikker, Utrecht (NL)
14 and 15 December 2012
Grand Theater, Groningen (NL)
5 December 2012
Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (NL)
27, 28 and 29 November 2012
Frascati, Amsterdam (NL) premiere