ATMEN

ATMEN
18 Oct '23 to 19 Oct '23
Nicole Beutler Projects / Nicole Beutler

In ATMEN, Nicole Beutler welcomes you to an undiscovered piece of the future; it is 2200. A pulsating, vibrating and breathing paradise in which nature has reclaimed its place. The red plush in the theatre is now part of a living ecosystem. The ruin is overgrown with bacteria, flora, fauna and shiny fungi. Along with hybrid creatures, the audience becomes part of this ecosystem, in which the four singers of the award-winning dance opera 8: METAMORPHOSIS sing romantic songs of nature.

Run time 90 minutes
Genre dance
Language various languages

ATMEN


Under the moonlight, a wolf howls and two dancers meet. Together with the living space, they move to music of lost radio waves, rustling leaves and electronic music compositions by our in-house composer Gary Shepherd. These compositions are inspired by remnants of Schubert songs.

Visual artist Heleen Blanken uses three-dimensional video images to make the theatre overrun with resilient nature. Deep in these damp, vibrating, cavernous depths, at the bottom of a post-apocalyptic reality, the wild promise of an unimaginable future gradually takes shape.

The second part of the trilogy: RITUALS OF TRANSFORMATION (towards a new humanity) is an immersive theatrical experience. We travel through an experiment, a speculative fiction where we contemplate constant collective transformation in an overgrown ruin.

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In the first part of the trilogy: GINKGO or: 56 million years ago there were palm trees on the North Pole, we watched the end of the man-made world, like a film without a happy ending. In ATMEN, Beutler and her team let the audience catch their breath again with a space full of life, potential and change. In the final part of the trilogy, a new balance will be found.

This trilogy creates a space where the performers and the audience reflect together on what it is to be human in this world. Theatre offers an opportunity to think critically about the future of humanity on the planet. Beutler aims to touch the audience by offering new perspectives, by breaking open existing concepts in search of new, unexpected connections, generating potential for a hopeful vision of the future.

This performance is presented as part of a collaboration between Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) and Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE).

CREDITS


concept and directing Nicole Beutler

in close cooperation with the team
performance and vocals Hillary Blake Firestone, Reve Ter Borg, Arnout Lems, Dominic Krämer, Felix Schellekens and Timo Tembuyser
music composition Gary Shepherd and Franz Schubert
video art Heleen Blanken
scenography and lighting Julian Maiwald
dramaturgy Igor Dobricic
costume Jessica Helbach
artistic assistance Justa ter Haar
sound design Ruben Kieferfeld
directing assistance Konstantinos Chatzikypraios

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understudy dance and vocals Salya Berrraf
rehearsal director and tour management Joao Dinis Pinho
head of technique and video technique Hans-Peter Hulsscher
sound technician Valentijn Berckhout
lighting technique Nicholas Hermans
production Yonina van Geel
marketing Shewska Verberne and Alma Hoekstra
a production by Nicole Beutler Projects
created in co-production with Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Parktheater Eindhoven, O. Festival for Opera. Music. Theatre
made possible by the generous support of Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst and AMMODO

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