Falling

Falling is an enchanting performance with swirling winds and falling figures. The piece explores gravity, stimulates the imagination and sharpens the senses. Fans and wind machines on stage, controlled by dancers and the audience, make it seem as if the dancers are constantly falling. A depiction of the unpredictability of life, with the wind symbolising the relationship between freedom and destruction.

The idea behind the performance came from an emotional event in the life of artistic director Joop Oonk; a close friend suffered a brain haemorrhage. Falling symbolises the moments of being in control, losing control and the impact of a traumatic experience on and the resilience of people and their loved ones.  

Falling is a co-production with Theaterfestival Boulevard and V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam). The performance is part of a trilogy on movements (water, wind and in-between time) through which Oonk questions the norm around movement and mobility of (dis)abled bodies. 

This performance will premiere at Boulevard on Sunday 4 August.

Good to know

• We invite you to watch this stimulus-friendly performance with stimuli. It is up to you how you want to experience these stimuli (or not), you can decide on the spot depending on where you take your seat in the room.
• On Monday 5 August there is a combiticket for this performance with the performance Weg van India by B12 - Joke Emmers en Visjal Auwerx.