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Holland Festival: No Change or "freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill"

DD Dorvillier, human future dance corps (PR)
Tue 17 Jun ’25 and Wed 18 Jun ’25
Bodies, objects and sounds become intertwined in a playful act of resistance.
Tue 17 Jun ’25
and
Wed 18 Jun ’25

In No Change or ‘freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill’ , DD Dorvillier (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1967) interweaves bodies, objects and sounds in a playful act of resistance. The performance premiered in 2005, and now, twenty years later, will be presented once more at the Holland Festival at Frascati.

A sensory exploration unfolds onstage. Together with dancer Elizabeth Ward, Dorvillier creates a performative landscape of microphones, cables and light installations. She handles the lighting and sound herself, getting caught up in objects, resulting in a physical struggle.

Seth Cluett’s sound design full of ambient sounds, thumping, dragging and scratching, and Thomas Dunn’s intimate lighting design add to the intense atmosphere.

No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” marks a pivotal moment in Dorvillier’s artistic development and working methods and became a point of reference for her later work. It was performed again in 2010 at St. Mark’s Church as part of Danspace Project’s platform “certain difficulties, certain joy”, curated by Trajal Harrell.

I am very happy to bring choreographer and dancer DD Dorvillier to the festival. She is someone I met in New York, and I have a very long history with. She will do one of her pieces that I love, called No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill.

  • Trajal Harrell, associate artist Holland Festival 2025

Aftertalk on Tuesday June 17th

Duration: 55 mins.

Part of

Credits

concept DD Dorvillier performance DD Dorvillier, Elizabeth Ward, Seth Cluett licht ontwerp Thomas Dunn geluidsontwerp Seth Cluett kostuums Kelly Horrigan, Jesica Beebe productie-coördinator Jeff Englander

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