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Arno Schuitemaker - IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW

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If You Could See Me Now

Arno Schuitemaker © Sanne Peper

If You Could See Me Now

Arno Schuitemaker © Sanne Peper

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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)