This year we bring you the very best from Amsterdam Fringe. See and experience some of the most exciting and contemporary work to come out of the Netherlands at The Old Market, Hove, and across Brighton.
Supported by The Embassy of The Netherlands and Fonds Podiumkunsten Performing Arts Fund NL.
Mime duo DeRonde/Deroo explore the struggle and the beauty of melancholy in this award-winning, visually stunning physical performance. Set in a dark and windy winter dreamscape, After The Echo takes you on a surrealist journey punctuated by explosions of colour and warmth: a blood-and-thunder pop ballad in a red sequin dress, a roadside encounter with a golden stag, two lost souls in a storm longing for a Brazilian beach.
Up-and-coming performance artist Sofie Kramer searches for female autonomy and physical self-determination in a mind-blowing pole dancing performance based on "Iphigenia in Aulis", the famous Greek tragedy about the sacrifice of a young girl's body. In a sweaty duet between her body and a sky-high pole, Kramer examines the thin line between violence and the erotic. Together with sound artist Mári Máko, she built her own interactive dancing pole, which she plays with her body as a musical instrument. The hard, immobile piece of steel comes to life in this dark female fantasy.
Funny, uncomfortable, provoking, sometimes with a delay, Sophia answers questions. Inspired by a true story, “AM I A ROBOT?*” invites you to encounter SOPHIA. She is a social humanoid robot that was activated on February 14, 2016 and is the first robot to receive citizenship of any country. AM I A ROBOT?* is a documentary show on the edge: an inappropriate circus demonstration to question our capability for empathy and explore our repetitive failure to recognise the rights of what is perceived as otherness.
BioPower is an intimate storytelling performance that unveils the beautiful moments, but also the darker struggles of a relationship. It’s a labyrinth within a labyrinth style performance. While two storytellers act out the ideal couple; Sophie is a lawyer with never-ending insomnia and Francesco is a Tinder addict who lost his erection, their relationship on stage is strongly tested.
A brand new dance-theatre performance, created by award-winning, international theatre-maker Ester Natzijl, comes a tragi-comic tale about an existential self-styled guru who thinks they can lead humanity to salvation. Through a journey of dance, text and puppetry they will prove that Grace is hidden in the example of the marionette. A tribute to the powers of perseverance, imagination and belief.
From the outside, all seems to be silent, from the inside the first blast of the universe is making a big band. MINUS 9 is a tailor-made performance that is created for each single audience member. It is a solo made by/for the audience’s ear. In MINUS 9 the boundaries between musician and audience, between music and ritual, silence and sound, drumming and dreaming are broken down.
Explore the concepts of contemporary mime in a playful workshop with DeRonde/Deroo, the company behind the award-winning After The Echo
Physical performer and pole dancer Sofie Kramer (A Pole Tragedy) will take you on a journey to connect to your sensual side and sink deeper into your body.
Farah Coppola & Betal Özay (Biopower) will work with you on basic storytelling techniques and give you a taste of how to craft a short story and share it with the audience in an engaging way.
To explore body sound environments. To tease the equilibrium in the hierarchy of the senses. K&A extract out of 'MINUS 9', techniques of precise gestures to produce: white noise, electric signals, tremblings and train the musician in your hands, the vibrations of your anatomic concert halls. To cross the sound barrier.