latest group work availabe for international touring
Village Storm
Worldpremiere 15 Feb 2025,
NL tour until 3 May 2025
Duration: 28 min.
Cast: Tatiana Matveeva, William English + dancers Poetic Disasters Club: Jeanne Hensinger, Ray Lemmens, Patrick Wiel, Emma Zeimen, Oier Abrego
Credits: Lunatics and Poets (concept, set, choreography in collaboration with the dancers), Anouk van Kampen-Wielingen (costume), Brendan Faegre (music), Samon Presland (light), Ascon de Nijs (set advice), Igor Podsiadly, Rosie Reith (studio assistance), Nick Dunsbergen, Michiel Schnelle (technique), Jesse Korte, Gerard Paulissen (production), Joelie Stork (marketing), Tania Ballve, Helga Richter (costume atelier)
Text: Louise Glück (A Village Life) spoken by William English
Photo’s projection: Tatiana Matveeva, Anna Jacobs, Hanna van der Meer
NL tour until 3 May 2025
Duration: 28 min.
Cast: Tatiana Matveeva, William English + dancers Poetic Disasters Club: Jeanne Hensinger, Ray Lemmens, Patrick Wiel, Emma Zeimen, Oier Abrego
Credits: Lunatics and Poets (concept, set, choreography in collaboration with the dancers), Anouk van Kampen-Wielingen (costume), Brendan Faegre (music), Samon Presland (light), Ascon de Nijs (set advice), Igor Podsiadly, Rosie Reith (studio assistance), Nick Dunsbergen, Michiel Schnelle (technique), Jesse Korte, Gerard Paulissen (production), Joelie Stork (marketing), Tania Ballve, Helga Richter (costume atelier)
Text: Louise Glück (A Village Life) spoken by William English
Photo’s projection: Tatiana Matveeva, Anna Jacobs, Hanna van der Meer
‘Village Storm’ is inspired by ‘A Village Life’, a poetry book by Nobel Prize-winning author Louise Glück. The piece unfolds in a small, nature bound community, examining the friction between human individuality and our shared animal instincts. Private, tender moments of human connection are juxtaposed with the overwhelming presence of natural disasters - like a storm gathering in the distance.
Village Storm explores the impact of climate change on humanity through the lens of desire, self-interest and the primal need for survival. The piece asks whether, in the future, we may have to reconnect with our most basic instincts to survive - perhaps even transform ourselves, reverting back into animals?
Village Storm explores the impact of climate change on humanity through the lens of desire, self-interest and the primal need for survival. The piece asks whether, in the future, we may have to reconnect with our most basic instincts to survive - perhaps even transform ourselves, reverting back into animals?
Images: Gergely Ofner
