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Arno Schuitemaker - IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW

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)

Three performers reshape a chilled-out club dance into a mesmerizing wave-like motion until everything morphs into electrifying energy. At maximal and sweaty exertion, their incessant movement flow reinvents itself through luminous, ever-changing impressions.

 

Arno Schuitemaker created this performance against the backdrop of a transforming reality. If You Could See Me Now urges another, closer look. How to keep going and move forward? How to shift and realign our focus? From ecstasy to turmoil, from a meticulous build-up to its fracturing, If You Could See Me Now goes right to the core of the body and its relation to change.

"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)

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