The quiet
Anthony van Gog

What happens when we no longer force the body to perform, but simply let it be?

At The quiet the smallest movements of sleeping, dreaming or dying bodies are magnified into a sensory experience. Three performers lie on a raised platform. They breathe, shake, tremble. Their muscles tighten and release. Sometimes they seem to be suffering. Sometimes as if they are ecstatic. Are they sick, asleep, in transition or just intensely present?

With an ingenious scenography of invisible microphones, subtle manipulative sound and intimate painterly light, Anthony van Gog makes the invisible tangible. The quietest movements of the body-fever, chills, insomnia, excitement, fatigue-are here not just shown, but experienced.

The quiet is not a performance in the classical sense. It is a still life in motion. A corporeal poem. A stillness that gets under your skin, swaying on the silent forces of existence.

In a world where bodies are increasingly reduced to pixels, data and performance, it brings The quiet us back to what it means to be body: raw, vulnerable and real. An ode to the body in its purest form.

Anthony van Gog (Riemst, 1996) graduated from the Performance programme at the Maastricht Drama Academy in 2019. His work moves at the interface of theatre and visual art. He makes the body, sound and space play a game over and over again. Besides his artistic practice, Anthony is pursuing a master's degree in Philosophy at the University of Antwerp. Since 2023, Anthony has been associated with DansBrabant as PLAN-maker. In the same year, he created the performance crowdkill.