&nbsp;
“Become the strongest version of yourself. Be your own guru. The body achieves what the mind believes. It always hurts before it gets better”
&nbsp;
#ShapeME &#8211; the new work by Rotterdam based collective HipSick &#8211; is a performative installation that deals with different perspectives on the virtual identity.
After PUPPIES FOR SALE, the trilogy Some Say Morality is Negotiable continues with #ShapeME. #ShapeME emphasizes the performer’s own relationship to the fabricated real, the makeability of the body, and the psychological effects these concepts have on us. Does your life matter if you don’t continuously show it off online? If others can’t see how fit you are and how perfect your skin looks?

#ShapeMe by Hipsick

T.B.C.

08 #ShapeME by Hipsick

#ShapeME by Hipsick

Perry Gits is a dancer, singer and performer. After studying Urban Contemporary Dans at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten be placed in musicals as ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Hair’ and he was a singer in a gospel choir. In his own work Perry uses his art like a political instrument to talk about subjects that are considered taboo. He wants to have a healing impact. How do you free yourself from the straitjacket in which our society forces you? Who do you actually want to be? Can you be yourself anytime, anywhere? These personal and at the same time universal questions are contained in a multidisciplinary and highly dynamic performance in which Perry Gits not only exposes himself.

PERRY

04 PERRY by Perry Gits

Sofie Kramer (1990) is an Amsterdam-based theatre performer and writer. Deriving from personal experiences, she examines her inner world from a political and philosophical perspective to tell bigger stories about the influence of power structures on the individual. In this search, she strongly relies on &#8211; and rebels against &#8211; antique sources such as Greek mythology. The fighting body is a returning theme in her work: the body that tries to fight time, gravity, the gaze of the other. She shows these fights in physical, strongly visual and often multidisciplinary performances, musicality and the body always being the starting point of the process.
&nbsp;

A Pole Tragedy

Photo: Nichon Glerum

A Pole Tragedy by Sofie Kramer

Noys is a post punk band that often takes inspiration from 60&#8217;s garage rock and 80&#8217;s new wave. The 3 boys and 2 girls often hang out in their rehearsal room drinking beer and discussing youth and media. This leads to cynical lyrics with a strong catchy tune.

Noys

IMG-20200928-WA0002

Inspired by classical fairytales and mythology, the story of the main character in Obsidian // Silk is entered around The Wired Boy, who is faced by challenges he must overcome, both internally and in relation to the external world. The audience is taken into to the realm of a human being who struggles with the oppression of his sexual orientation by both society and himself, leading to his eventual transformation into a robot void of emotion. Throughout the story, many different identities, archetypes and personas are adopted &#8211; each serving as an explorative vehicle that expresses an aspect of the protagonist’s &#8211; and the artist’s &#8211; identity. Feminine versus masculine energy is a main theme, as is nature versus technology.

Program

Performances