“The confrontational performance ‘The Quiet’ is spectacle on a micro level”

“Those loud bass tones that you feel in your bones characterise the work of choreographer Anthony van Gog. But in The Quiet, on show at performance festival Spring, the very silences are also pregnant: they emphasise the corporeality of the three performers, who meander across a raised platform of some four by four metres.”

“The quiet” is spectacle on a micro level; a shudder through a finger already puts you on edge. Confrontational, that's what it feels like. The bodies shaking, vibrating, scraping across the hard surface of the platform. We often think we are creatures of interest, but we are nothing more than a bag of soft tissue."

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