The site-specific performance Wiek is a collaboration between theatre-director Boukje Schweigman, set- and light designer Theun Mosk and composer Douwe Eisenga

For many years Boukje Schweigman has a fascination for rotating movements. After her successful performance Wervel / Whirl she presented in 2009 the evening-length dance / theater-work Wiek / Rotor. She got the inspiration for Rotor from the never-stopping movement of the light-beams of a fire-tower. This movement gives rest, but in the optical speeding this movement can also be threatening. Rotor is a hypnotizing trip for the audience as well as the performer.

Three female dancers find themselves sharing a circular area with the horizontally rotating blades of a wind turbine. The seated audience surrounds the space, allowing no chance of escape; the dancers must confront their situation.

Feeble humans are compelled to enter into combat with forces far greater than their own, and the audience is made complicit in the inevitable outcome.

Director: Boukje Schweigman
Set- and light designer: Theun Mosk
Composer: Douwe Eisenga
Dance: Swantje Schaeuble, Birgit Gunzl, Andrea Beugger, Marinke Eijgenraam

Saxophones: Erik-Jan de With

Recording: Concertstudio
Costumes: Edith Ordelman
Sound designer: Dennis Slot
Dramaturgy: Alex Mallems

PERFORMANCES

30 performances during

Oerol Festival, Terschelling (NL), june 2009

Over het IJ Festival, Amsterdam, july 2009

Festival Boulevard, Den Bosch (NL), august 2009

Zeeland Nazomer Festival, Terneuzen (NL), 2009

WEBSITES

boukje schweigman

theun mosk

erik-jan de with

concertstudio

VIDEO INFO
Several video's, The central one is a compilation of the performance. Two short video's about the setup of the arena & three (Dutch) press-video's.

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