Asset Liability & Equity
Asset, Liability & Equity tests the moral boundaries of the stage: who chooses softness, who chooses force? The audience decides who wins. Six performers dance, improvise and compete in the new work by choreographer Connor Schumacher.
On one side, virtuosic dance; on the other, a fight for survival - with the audience as referee.
Festival Julidans
Programme section Julidans On Stage/ Julidans NL
Location Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Venue Rabozaal
Run 85 minutes
Genre Dance
Language English
Content warning: full nudity, scenes of violence
Age recommendation: 18+
Asset Liability & Equity
How do you survive in a system that completely surrounds you on all sides and determines what is possible, what is not, what is allowed or not allowed? What behavior is expected from the outside world, while on the inside a turbulent energy churns that drives you toward something else? We are here to prepare you for the world. We are made in your image. We want to follow your will, but we cannot hear your voice, and your spirit is confusing. Do you want more nurturance or more dominance? We’re here to practice. To work. To work it out. Competition disguised as love. Empathy mistaken for weakness. Authority that calls itself protection. Care that demands obedience. This is a dance. This is theater. This is work.
-|-Asset, Liability & Equity is partly a tightly and brilliantly designed, virtuosically performed choreography, but it may also evoke a sense of discomfort. In an absurdist spectacle with the intensity of an arena, the presenter, the MC of the performance, creates an environment in which dancers and audience together feel the toll of capital, entertainment, status and gratification. In this new production, Connor Schumacher challenges the audience to be more than a voyeur and makes them an active participant of the offering.
Reach. Reach out. Let me be brave. Let me take responsibility for the weight of this. You'll love it, you'll hate it, but the question is: how much can you take?
About ARK/Connor Schumacher
ARK is a Rotterdam-based dance organisation, founded in 2020 by Connor Schumacher, that creates social choreography for theatres, festivals and clubs. The company works from a philosophy rooted in neuroscience and psychology, exploring how dance moves people - physically and mentally.
ARK has previously collaborated with, among others, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Louvre, and created productions including Funny Soft Happy & The Opposite, ClubINC and the techno-jazz musical Raging Against Various Elements, winner of De Zwaan 2025.
The jury stated: "The way Schumacher communicates with his audience - explicitly inviting them to move and giving voice to their experiences - is refreshing, connecting and innovative. The jury is very encouraged by the liberating way in which Schumacher shares what dance can do."
Credits
Direction & Choreography Connor Schumacher
Script Connor Schumacher
Dramaturgy Maaike Schuurmans
Made in collaboration with & performed by
Simomo Boujarra, Inci Gül Civelekoğlu, Marilou Fortuné, Naomi Rosa, Matheus Moreira, Ischa Statie, Cain Wittenhaus
Rehearsal Director Majon van der Schot
Opening Acts No Limits! Art Castle
Music Nikos ten Hoedt, Mathilde Nobel
Costumes Patchwork Family, Marco Blazevic, Meike van Lelyveld, Salome
PWF Interns Cato Devilee, Femke Buis, Rozemarijn Wouters
Light Design Edwin van Steenbergen
Technique Edwin van Steenbergen
Scenography Edwin van Steenbergen, Patchwork Family-|-
Production Christel de Wolff
Business Leader Cedric Ponson
Business & Production Intern Hannah Reijgwart
ARK Creative Agent Karina van Bezooijen
External Agent Bureau Berbee & Jansen
Marketing & Communication Thamar Kempees, Megan Lloyd
Social Media Rosa Laan
Visual Identity & Campaign Great Expectations / Kees de Klein, Andrea Casetti
With supporting partners
Grand Theatre Groningen, Nieuwe Luxor Theater
Made possible by
Het Fonds Podiumkunsten, Gemeente Rotterdam, Fonds 21, J.E. Jurriaanse Stichting, Dioraphte
