Match & Watch: Último helecho

We invite you to find your new dance partner through Match & Watch. Because we believe that watching dance is a great experience, but even more beautiful when you can share it with someone. A few days before the performance, you will receive a questionnaire from us, fill it in and, based on it, we will match you with the person we believe to be your ideal dance partner. Your dance partner does not necessarily have to be romantic; it can also be a meeting of people with a shared passion.-|-
On the evening of the performance, you will be welcomed at 18:45 in Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. Here you will meet your match and get a drink from us. Afterwards, you will enjoy the performance Último helecho.

The “Match & Watch” concept is based on “Dating the Unknown” by Theater Rotterdam

Argentine and Peruvian folklore sizzles with rhythm, vitality and raw expression. Stories of violence and resistance, interwoven with European influences, resonate through dance and music. Director Nina Laisné brings together singer Nadia Larcher and dancer François Chaignaud to breathe new life into these traditions. Surrounded by six musicians, they allow Baroque and South American mythology to collide in an exuberant performance.

This sensory performance takes the audience through hidden layers of folklore and myth. Folklore does not appear as a fixed heritage, but as something that lives and changes, full of tensions and contradictions. European influences resonate alongside the often-suppressed history of indigenous communities. Here, virtuosity arises from change and fusion. -|-
Último helecho unfolds in two contrasting parts. In the first, time seems to stand still. Two hybrid figures move slowly through a dimly lit space that feels like a cave or a shelter. Voices and sounds rise from the depths, as if dance itself were emerging here anew.

In the second part, everything bursts forth. Rhythm and energy take over, footwork makes the floor reverberate. What grew underground blossoms into an exuberant, collective world full of movement.

Throughout the work, the figure of the devil from South American mythology emerges – not as a threat, but as a guide. Último helecho thus becomes a poetic journey through layers of memory, melancholy and longing: a spellbinding experience that touches the soul and opens up space for other ways of feeling and living together.