The quiet

Theatre maker and choreographer Anthony van Gog works at the intersection of movement, light and sound. With his work, he makes the audience not only look, but above all feel.

The quiet is an immersion in sound, light and bodies. In the centre of the room on a raised platform lie three performers. The quietest movements of the body, shivers of insomnia, excitement and fatigue unfold. Bathed in light, in each other, in sweat. Propelled by the music and the pulse of the body. The audience is in motion, walking around the theatrical still life. An invitation to the viewer to constantly choose position, in relation to the sound, the other and the performers.

Come closer or take a break, what seems quiet at first turns out to be full of movement. What is familiar feels strange. A heartbeat. Involuntary muscle tension, conscious relaxation. A sigh. A groan. A last breath?

With an ingenious scenography of invisible microphones, cinematic soundscapes and intimate painterly light, the invisible is made tangible. In a world where bodies are increasingly reduced to pixels, data and performance, The quiet brings 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.