Grondtonen (9+)
“I think I am a little lost.”
In Grondtonen, a forest grows inside the house. The walls disappear between the trees, and the ground beneath their feet becomes less and less reliable. What once felt safe begins to shift. A family slowly loses its grip on their surroundings, while something starts to move beneath the earth.
Duration tbc
Genre Dance
Language Language no problem
When the ground begins to breathe
Grondtonen tells the story of a family getting lost in a growing forest. The world around them changes slowly but irreversibly, while the ground beneath them becomes unstable. Beneath this shifting reality, music rises from the depths, as if the forest itself is breathing, singing and responding to what happens above.-|-
A large forest creature moves through this world, unseen until the tension becomes impossible to ignore. What begins as imagination gradually becomes tangible and unavoidable. The performance explores how fear, imagination and nature can intertwine, and how a family tries to stay grounded in a world that is literally changing beneath them.
About the makers and collaboration
Het Houten Huis collaborates on Grondtonen
with Nordland Visual Theatre, Tryater and Club Guy & Roni. Together, these companies combine artistic and technical forces to create a highly visual and physical theatre world.-|-
The collaboration builds on earlier successful productions in which design, performance and movement are closely intertwined.
Credits
Direction & script Elien van den Hoek
Assistant direction Anne van Dorp
Assistant direction & puppetry Meghan Dobbelsteijn
Performance & dance Claire Hermans, Wannes de Porre, Marie Khatib-Shahidi, Ronja Smit e.a.
Music, composition & puppetry Martin Franke
Backstage & puppetry Jesse Debille
Children’s guidance & puppetry Sieger Baljon
Choreography Elien van den Hoek, Adam Peterson-|-
Technical team Tomas van Schelven, Wytze Veenstra, Nico Wijnberg
Design Douwe Hibma, Marlies Schot
Set construction Douwe Hibma
Props & finishing Marlies Schot, André Kok
Costumes & props Freja Roelofs in collaboration with André Kok
Lighting design Desirée van Gelderen
Dramaturgy Yngvild Aspeli, David van Griethuysen, Marleen Jongens, Nina Thunnissen
Photography Anne Harbers
