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)