A collaboration between 3rd year students and choreographer Connor Schumacher, coproduced by WhyNot.
Date: Thu 9 & Fri 10 april
Time: 19:30 - 20:15
Venue: At the artwork of André Volten - Amstel 1, (Waterlooplein) at the square in front of stadhuis-Muziektheater
Free entrance
70 hours of dancing together. Balancing choreographic and improvisational scores. A comment on energy, togetherness, and position through musicality and lyrical music performed in public space. What is mine? What belongs to me? My productivity, my motives, my morals, the changes in my life? Do they belong to me?
Choreography/Direction: Connor Schumacher
Made in collaboration with ECD3
Design concept: Elsemarijn Bruijs
Video design: Jeisson Drenth
Rehearsal Assistant: Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito
Production: Michael Scerbo (WhyNot), Dorothea Sinnema (ATD)
Venue managers: Juliette Moonen, Camille Pas
Technique at Venue: Anton van Wolfswinkel
Connor Schumacher is founder and artistic leader of Stichting ARK. Connor has developed as a dance artist under the wings of Dansateliers. Here he made The Fool (2015), Asset, Liability and Equity (2016), Exhibition (2017), OK Future (2017), THREESOME (2019) and Funny Soft Happy & The Opposite (2019). Establishing ARK in 2020 he continued producing Pilot PC (2021), Club INC with Theater Babel Rotterdam (2023), and Raging Against Various Elements (2024) which was nominated for most impressive dance production of 2024 by the VSCD jury & Festival Nederlandse Dansdagen.
Connor makes performances and social choreographic works for theaters, museums, festivals, and clubs. All activities are situated in different and overlapping contexts, where the higher goal is to get people moving, physically and mentally.
Elsemarijn Bruys (b. 1989, NL) is a visual artist with a strong curiosity for sensory perception. In her hybrid practice, she alternates between making sculptures and architectural interventions, but the spatial experience is always her starting point. Her background in fashion has greatly influenced her sculptural work. For example, her series Puff (2019 – now) is a sculptural reference to the archetypal puffer jacket, the garment that possesses the quality of being class-transcending and is embraced by just about every social group. Bruys' puffs are fleshy and permanently under tension. They are so high-gloss that the viewer sees themselves reflected in them, although completely stretched and distorted. This duality, between lighthearted and uncomfortable, between attractive and repulsive, is an important motif in her work.
Bruys is currently working on a series of mirrors, premiering in Berlin. Her work has been shown at the Van Eesteren Museum, Kunsthal KAdE, Art Rotterdam, Down The Rabbit Hole, Torrance Art Museum and the Van Gogh Museum, among others.