‘Nude’, choreographer Pia Meuthen’s latest dance performance for the theatre, uses dance, literature, and live music to unravel the thought process of a woman who starts loosing herself in the extremities of her fantasy when she tries to bend her life to her own will.
‘Nude’ presents two lovers who are about to move to the countryside. He wants to move on to the next chapter in their lives, but she decides to stop him from doing so. Because she refuses to go along with his story. She does not want to fill in their future definitively, she refuses to accept that their relationship will wear out, that everything will be taken for granted. She stops time and literally steps outside their story. What sets out as an analytical comment on a relationship deteriorates into three people’s fierce attempts not to lose themselves in each other or the world around them.
‘Nude’ will grab you by the throat. Sometimes scary, at other times surreal, but also accessible and full of humour. ‘Nude’ is about exposing yourself, exposing your innermost emotions and then losing your grip on things. A poignant dance performance, inspired by the novel Tussen een persoon by Esther Gerritsen, in which Pia Meuthen once more explores the boundaries of dance. Two musicians will be accompanying the performance with live piano, percussion, and soundscapes.
‘And then you came. With your dark eyes. Eyes I had never even imagined. No-one ever told me they existed. Eyes that I could not test against thoughts I might have had about them...This is the climax of my story. And I know how stories end or drag on forever. Everyone knows the only way to end a series is with a mass murder in the final episode. A house burning down with everyone inside; an explosion; a shipwreck.’ (Tussen een persoon by Esther Gerritsen)
Coproduction Panama Pictures and Danshuis Station Zuid
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