Room in Our House
A danced manifesto for peace.
An age-old promise of peace takes on a new form in ROOM IN OUR HOUSE: an intense duet about history, trauma and the possibility of healing.
Festival Julidans
Programme section Julidans On Stage/ Julidans NL
World premiere
Location Podium Mozaïek
Run time TBC
Genre Dance
Language English
A video recording will be made of the performance on Sunday 5 July. It is possible that you may appear in the footage.
ROOM IN OUR HOUSE
Two men meet. In their bodies lies their strenght. Both dancers live in the here and now. Yet, they are connected by a complex colonial history. One is the child of survivors, the other the heir of oppressors. Two worlds that clash. Is peace possible?
Four hundred years ago, Dutch ships sailed up the Hudson River and encountered the Haudenosaunee, the original inhabitants of North America. A special pact was agreed between the two groups, enshrined in the Two Row Wampum: two lines travelling side by side across the river of life, one for the Haudenosaunee in their canoe, the other one for the Dutch in their ship. Living together in peace, without dominating one another.
-|-The narrator guides the audience through stories, history and Indigenous wisdom. Dance, music and text intertwine to form a ritual in which memory and hope coexist.
ROOM IN OUR HOUSE is the first chapter of CLOSE ENCOUNTER / Future Stories, a new series by Nicole Beutler Projects, centred on encounters with different perspectives on the world. A performance about peace – not as a given, but as something that must be continually reinvented.
Nicole Beutler Projects
Nicole Beutler Projects is the Amsterdam-based company of choreographer and theatre-maker Nicole Beutler. In her work, dance, music, theatre and visual art come together in powerful, all-encompassing performances. Beutler often creates grand, almost ritualistic performances in which groups of performers, live music and striking imagery collectively evoke an entire world. Her work raises questions about our relationship with one another, with nature and with the future. Recent productions include GINKGO, ATMEN and NOW WE ARE EARTH. With her idiosyncratic, visionary style, Nicole Beutler has become one of the most remarkable and captivating creators in the Dutch performing arts.
Credits
Concept & direction Michelle Schenandoah (Oneida/Haudenosaunee), Nicole Beutler (NL/DE)
Choreography Nicole Beutler in collaboration with the performers
Dancers Montana Summers (Oneida/Haudenosaunee), Rob Polmann (NL/DE)
Storyteller Montana Adams (Mohawk)
Text Ty Defoe (Oneida/Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe), Michelle Schenandoah, the performers
Music Gary Shepherd (NL/UK, electronic composition), Ty Defoe (drum, percussion, flute), Adah Schenandoah (Oneida/Haudenosaunee, voice, drum, percussion)
Dramaturgy Justa ter Haar (NL), Igor Dobričić (SRB)
Costumes Tisha Thompson (Mohawk), Jessica Helbach (NL)
Scenography Jessica Helbach (NL), Tim Vermeulen (NL)
Sound design Maurits Thiel (NL)
Light design Tim Vermeulen (NL)
Assistant director Sebastián Paladines Cedeño (ES)
-|-Cultural advice Neal Powless (Onondaga/Haudenosaunee), Diane Schenandoah (Oneida/Haudenosaunee)
Production management Nikki Kracht (NL)
Head of technique Durante van Kuijk (NL), Tim Vermeulen (NL)
Technique tour Martin Kaffarnik (NL), Bram van Gameren (NL)
PR & marketing Pauline van Kordelaar (NL), Lieke Scholten (NL)
Business management Maria Heidemann (NL/DE)
Production Nicole Beutler Projects (NL) in coproduction with Rematriation (Haudenosaunee)
Support US Syracuse Stage, The Treman Center
Support NL Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds 21, Ammodo Art, Netherland-America Foundation
With many thanks to Joann Yarrow (Syracuse Stage), Jim O’Connor (Syracuse University), Salt Space, Andy Robinson (PR Productions TV), Leslie Carrere (Treman Center)
