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Het gras hier is groener

Dunja Jocic

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Het gras hier is groener
Dunja Jocic

Het gras hier is groener is a penetrating dance performance about man's urge to live on forever. What does the future hold for those who pursue their desire for eternal life? A dance theatre performance for seven dancers.

Run time 70 minutes
Genre Dance / Theatre
Language Dutch

In Gesprek Fri 28 October
Opening night Fri 28 October

© Marinus Groothof
© Marinus Groothof

Het gras hier is groener


In Het Gras hier is Groener, seven dancers move into an impressionistic stage landscape that resembles Dejeuner sur L'herbe by the painter Manet. However, this idyll soon shows disturbing technological disturbances and turns out to be a make-believe world in which the dancers' consciousnesses live. In reality, however, their bodies hang frozen in liquid nitrogen, in the so-called “dewars” of a cryogenic facility, waiting for the technological development that will bring their bodies back to life.

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Manet's painting hangs on the wall in this cryogenic facility. An old man looks around to discuss his possible freezing with the owner; a woman who has built a business empire on our insatiable desire for immortality. A dialogue like a chess game develops, with the human condition as the stake. The big questions about the meaning and essence of our existence are put back in the hands of the public in a confrontational and inescapable way.

In 2022, Dunja Jocic received the VCSD Swan for the best dance production of the season. With her dance language that is as intense as it is humorous, she is one of the most exciting dance makers of this moment. Her very personal performances are always topical and poignant.

Dunja Jocic

IN GESPREK

After the performance, come and think, listen and chat at In Gesprek. We invite choreographer Dunja Jocic and others to further explore the themes of the performance and to exchange experiences. If you have any questions, this is the perfect time to ask them. In Gesprek is free of charge and starts shortly after the performance in one of our foyers, is conducted in Dutch and lasts about half an hour.

CREDITS


choreography and direction Dunja Jocic
dancers Kalin Morrow, Thomas Higginson, Lukas Karvelis, Lotte Leppers, Tessa Spagnoli and Jeroen Janssen
actor Hugo Koolschijn
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voice-over Tom Janssen
text Rik van den Bos
music and sound design Renger Koning

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