OFFSPRING @ Spring Performing Arts Festival

During OFFSPRING, PLANmaker Anthony van Gog presents work-in-progress for the new performance he is creating,  the quiet.

the quiet is a performance in which the most intimate bodily experiences are evoked. Through sound scenography, it attempts to show experiences like sleep, illness, ecstasy, orgasm, pain, paralysis, dying in ambiguous constellation. Are the bodies suffering from high fever illness or are their movements instead expressions of sleep spasms and dreams? Do we see bodies being born or dying? Are they in ecstasy or are they just in pain? Do they make random sounds or do they create harmony together? By zooming in on the 'silent' movements of the body - such as rapid-eye movement, muscle tension, perspiration, the shift in the tempo of breathing, small vocal noises, surging bodily influences, etc - and externalising them through spatial sound and painting them with light, the quiet plays on the viewer's corporeality by drawing them into this intimacy and throwing them back into the sensation of their own bodies.

Audiences are essential to the work of performing artists. During OFFSPRING, SPRING Festival opens the doors to making processes for audiences curious about new developments in the performing arts. See, meet and exchange with makers, audiences or (new) colleagues. The evening includes a break with a cup of soup. In the afternoon, you can attend a workshop on 'queering artistic feedback'.

OFFSPRING is part of SPRING Academy and is organised in collaboration with Dansateliers, DansBrabant, VIA ZUID & FAAM.

Featuring work by Yoko Haveman, Boris de Klerk, Anthony van Gog (DansBrabant) and Nienke Coers, Freija Roos and Freke Vos.