T H E D U T C H O N T O U R - Theater Instituut Nederland
T H E D U T C H O N T O U R - Theater Instituut Nederland
T H E D U T C H O N T O U R - Theater Instituut Nederland
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Contact<br />
Artistic director: Dries Verhoeven<br />
Producer/agency: Huis aan de Werf,<br />
www.huisaandwerf.nl<br />
T +31 (0)30 – 231 58 44<br />
E info@huisaandewerf.nl<br />
I mid 2008: www.driesverhoeven.com<br />
Gestures that overawe<br />
Dries Verhoeven<br />
and leave an impression<br />
Dries Verhoeven makes experiential productions: installations, happenings and performances<br />
in which the spectator is the pivot. The audience is often physically involved in the show.<br />
Performers do not feature in his productions; they merely act as ‘staff’ helping to guide the<br />
spectators through their experience. The projects are on the interface of expressive art and<br />
theatre, and can be appreciated by wide audiences.<br />
In a busy, chaotic world, Dries Verhoeven goes in search of gestures that will overawe and leave<br />
an impression, that will allow the spectators to rediscover their inner self. Within the reality of<br />
day-to-day life, he manages to create intrusive, poetic and confusing moments, moments that<br />
allow you to experience reality from a different perspective. The projects are often presented<br />
in the context of a festival or on location. A lot is left to chance or input from the audience.<br />
Over the past few years, Dries Verhoeven has produced work including Thy kingdom come,<br />
featuring two spectators who have never met, in the same room but separated by sound-proof<br />
glass; Trail tracking, in which spectators speak to a performer on a mobile phone while walking<br />
through a deserted train station; and You are here, in which a spectator lies on a bed in a hotel<br />
room, with a view of the other ‘guests’ via a large mirror.<br />
International<br />
Thy kingdom come has already toured in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Italy and Germany, and is<br />
due to appear in other countries. Trail tracking was performed as Mobile/immobile in a shipyard<br />
in Ramonville, France. You are here will be touring Europe in the summer of 2008. The large movement,<br />
in which the audience sits in a small cinema in the middle of town watching the outside<br />
world, is also suitable for other countries. And so is Hartstocht/Passion, produced in collaboration<br />
with Roos van Geffen, featuring a bus trip that allows the audience to experience the world<br />
upside-down.<br />
Thy kingdom come<br />
Photo: Dries Verhoeven<br />
The Dutch on tour Physical, site-specific and object theatre<br />
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