Arno Schuitemaker - IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW
Arno Schuitemaker © Sanne Peper
Arno Schuitemaker © Sanne Peper
CREDITS
concept, choreography
Arno Schuitemaker
performers (5 pax)
KIm Amankwaa
Stein Fluijt
Johannes Lind or
Ivan Ugrin
artistic collaboration, dramaturgy
Guy Cools
composition
Wim Selles
lights
Vinny Jones
costumes
Inge de Lange
technique
Natasja Giebels
Vincent Beune
production
SHARP / Arno Schuitemaker
coproduction
HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden (DE) / O Espaço Do Tempo - Associação Cultura (Montemor-o-Novo (PT), CN D Centre national de la danse, Pantin (FR), KLAP Maison pour la danse, Marseille (FR) and Tafelhalle im KunstKulturQuartier, Nuremberg (DE).
support
Performing Arts Fund NL / Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (NL) / Fonds 21 (NL) / VSB Fonds (NL) / Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (NL)
duration
55 minutes
language
no problem
availability
2022, 2023, 2024 and beyond
touring party
5 to 7 pax
freight none
links & downloads
> performance sheet (EN)
> dossier de diffusion (FR)
> press review
> context
> teaser
> video impression (password)
> HR photos (password)
> technical rider (password)
Seemingly casual yet with impressive precision, If You Could See Me Now seeks another look, to look again. Three performers reshape a chilled-out club dance into a mesmerizing wave-like motion until everything morphs into one big chunk of energy.
At maximal and sweaty exertion, their movement flow reinvents itself as luminous, ever-changing impressions, capturing powerful imprints of perseverance and resilience. Going to the core of a transformative perspective, the performance space dilates and dissolves. Time gets chopped up then blends back together again.
Arno Schuitemaker created If You Could See Me Now to interrogate how to deal with things when they are taking another turn. How can we shift and realign our focus? From ecstasy to turmoil, from a meticulous build-up to its fracturing, If You Could See Me Now plays with expectations and redefines them. Moving through the unsettling, performers and the audience alike arrive at something unreserved and unstrained: a liberation.
"It is no exaggeration to say that these kind of experiences will determine the future of the theatre. (....) In this liberating dance, performance everything falls into place. " Alexander Hiskemuller, Trouw
"Brilliant work, yet again, with a progression so subtle that its transformations are sometimes more tangible than directly evident." -Francine van der Wiel, NRC Handelsblad
"A magnificent performance, tactfully playing with your emotions." Mirjam van der Linden, de Volkskrant
"It is Schuitemaker's great strength to think the art of performance in all its components through and to shape it in an experimental setup, which—in the end—exudes the strongest sensuality, originality and bliss." Alexandra Karabelas, Tanznetz
DATES
11 April 2023
Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen (FR)
13 April 2023
L’Onde, Espace culturel, Vélizy-Villacoublay (FR)
PAST
11 November 2021
International Dance Theatre Festival, Lublin (PL)
25 & 26 September 2021
Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest (HU)
20 July 2021
Kilowatt Festival, Sansepolcro (IT)
7 & 8 June 2021
Dance Week Festival, Zagreb (HR)
13 April 2021
(cancelled) Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen (FR)
9 April 2021
(cancelled) Festival Extradanse, Strasbourg (FR)
14 November 2020
(cancelled) International Dance Theaters Festival, Lublin (PL)
30 October 2020
(cancelled) dnkSpace, Sofia (BGR)
23 & 24 October 2020
(cancelled) PS21, Chatham (USA)
22 October 2020
(cancelled) De Lawei, Drachten (NL)
17 & 18 October 2020
(cancelled) Annenberg Center, Philadelphia (USA)
25 & 26 September 2020
(cancelled) Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest (HU)
17 September 2020
Theater De Vest, Alkmaar (NL)
1, 2 & 3 September 2020
(cancelled) Zeeland Nazomer Festival, Middelburg (NL)
26 May 2020
(now: online) Interplay Festival, Turin (IT)
19 February 2020
Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)
25 October 2019
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht (NL)
23 October 2019
Biennale de Charleroi danse, Brussels (BE)
21 & 22 June 2019
Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Montreuil (FR)
2 June 2019
Cyprus International Dance Festival, Limmasol, Cyprus
17 & 18 May 2019
Sala Hiroshima, Barcelona (ES)
17 April 2019
SPECIAL EDITION, Amsterdam (NL)
30 March 2019
Grand Theatre, Groningen (NL)
23 & 24 March 2019
Les Printemps de Sévelin, Lausanne (CH)
21 March 2019
Schouwburg Odeon, Zwolle (NL)
25 October 2018
Posthuis Theater, Heerenveen (NL)
10 & 11 October 2018
Festival Actoral, Marseille (FR)
3 October 2018
AINSI, Maastricht (NL)
6 July 2018
Julidans, Amsterdam (NL)
16 May 2018
Joint Adventures, Munich (DE)
14 April 2018
Korzo, Den Haag (NL)
12 April 2018
Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
11 April 2018
De Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg (NL)
4 April 2018
Theater Ins Blau, Leiden (NL)
30 March 2018
Theater aan de Rijn, Arnhem, (NL)
29 March 2018
Theater aan de Rijn, Arnhem (NL)
16 March 2018
de Meervaart, Amsterdam (NL)
22 February 2018
Verkadefabriek, Den Bosch (NL)
30 January 2018
Toneelschuur, Haarlem (NL)
20 January 2018
Chassé Theater, Breda (NL)
19 January 2018
LUX, Nijmegen (NL)
16 & 17 January 2018
Theater Kikker, Utrecht (NL)
19 December 2017
Frascati (Dutch premiere), Amsterdam (NL)
16 December 2017
Tafelhalle (German premiere), Nuremberg (DE)