๐๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ, ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ.
๐๐บ "๐ถ๐ด" ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ, ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, exploring ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ how to ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ด๐ต-๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ธ๐ฆ’๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ต๐ฉ.
♦ ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข ♦ ๐๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ♦ ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ ♦ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข ♦ ๐๐บ๐ณ๐ข ♦ ๐๐ข๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช ♦ ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ♦
A warm welcome with Ruth Borg
Ruth will guide you through Het Verbond's housewarming celebration. As the host, she will lead the opening talk, share the story of the space, and navigate guests through the various performances, discussions, and experiences of the day.
Ruth Borg (1994, Malta) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. She works in theatre, performance and film as a performer, maker, writer, vocalist, and facilitator. She creates work and spaces that may allow us to remember power, liberation and joy where they have been buried by the hands of over-domestication and domination of all sorts. She uses her body, voice and connections with others to make works that feed the world where it is starved.
A communal talk with Luku Xam
Luku Xam is an interdisciplinary Afro-Futurist storytelling collective consisting of Jomecia Oosterwolde, Joanne Purperhart, and Myra Fanta Bodian. They draw inspiration from various Afro and Afro-diasporic cultures, worldviews, and spirituality. In collaboration with The Need for Legacy, they’ve created a performance where visual art, storytelling, and movement converge based on their research in Dutch theater archives.
A confessional exposition with Naomi Steijger
In Birgit, I explore what role confession or confessing still plays today and what the conditions are for a modern confessional space. Together with Lieselot Mariën, dramaturg, I stumbled upon a remarkable collection of collages by an anonymous ‘outsider’ artist. There are sixty collages in total. Each collage depicts a woman dominating a submissive man.
In the collages, I see carefully composed, humorous revenge fantasies set in various locations: in richly decorated palace interiors reminiscent of Venice, under a bright blue sky at a temple complex evoking Greece, in front of gothic ruins, or in niches adorned with gold leaf. Using these collages as a starting point, I seek a way to talk about the collages, where people can share their own perspectives, associations, and memories.
Can we find a way for people to discuss these kinds of sensitive topics without the maker/interviewer being present? Or is it important in a confessional space to tell your story to someone directly?Or could the form of a confessional space also be like a phone booth, where you first listen to someone else’s confession in the form of a voicemail, and then feel safe enough to leave your own voicemail?
Naomi Steijger graduated in 2019 from the directing program at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts. Since then, she has been creating audio documentaries/podcasts, as well as auditory theatrical performances and installations. In October 2023, her first narrative podcast series Zwermelingen was released by VPRO and NPO Radio 1. The podcast won the 'Master Storyteller' award from the Narrative Journalism Foundation. After that, she produced the radio documentary A Devil's Dilemma in the Red Light District for NRC, and she is currently working on her second longer documentary podcast series about a dragon woman in the Red Light District for Podimo. Naomi also works part-time at the Erotic Museum in the Red Light District, is involved in sex workers' rights, and has an interest in erotic art.
A conversation on artistic research, capitalism and possible futures with Antonella Fittipaldi
Antonella’s philosophy is shaped by desire, disgust, anger and eroticism contained within the semiotic of feminine bodies, strongly encouraging non-linear/logical narratives of the selves, against patriarchal structures of power and oppression. Since 1993 she embodies & resists the contradictory effects that domestication processes, such as education, democracy and capitalism- have on feminine bodies. Indeed, she accomplished a BA in Hermeneutics at the Public Philosophy University of Milan, a BA in Choreography at the SNDO program of Amsterdam, and several ballet and contemporary dance training + she published and showed in both institutional and non institutional settings. She is currently initiating a long term pedagogical & political project for and through feminine bodies in small communities in the south of Italy, where she is from. Antonella is based between Amsterdam and Brussels, is a Virgo 31 years old also known as Anto, Anti or Seesses.
A movement research with Doke Pauwels
If you know what I mean
Something we say when language fails us and we need to rely on other people’s intuition for our story to continue. I find the phrase holds both vulnerability and hope. It’s in that gentle moment we will gather.
My research is about consolation and the instinctive body. We depart from the assumption that as humans, we are also animal, but have forgotten the ways in which we can benefit from this fact. With my dancers I’ve looked for ways that our animal body and a physical (un)consciousness can be sources of consolation and alliance.
In 2025 we will develop this movement research into a piece for three dancers, in a residency at Broedplaats Bloos (Breda). We premiere at Ins Blau (Leiden) in May 2025.
Doke Pauwels (1993) was trained as a dancer at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and as a dramaturg at the University of Amsterdam where she studied Theater Studies (BA) and Dramaturgy (MA). In 2014 she lived in New York City studying directing, acting and writing at The New School (Manhattan). Doke now works internationally as a freelance dancer, dramaturg and choreographer. She has worked with companies, directors and choreographers such as Golden Palace, Toneelschuur Haarlem; ITA; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Emke Idema; Jessie L’Herminez; Anne Hofstra and Sofie Kramer. In 2021 she began to develop her voice as a choreographer with The Hatred of Poetry. Recently she won the prize for Best Emerging Choreographer at AmsterDans competition and the DansMagazine Award with a pre-study of If you know what I mean. Besides her performance practice Doke developed an interest in the ways we design artistic collaborations and audience-relationships in the performing arts field. In 2019 she founded the arts initiative Antidote through which she initiates experimental performances, festivals and the immersive dance party Warm Bad with other artists in temporary collectives. She is currently also part of Alliantie DansVeilig, where she represents freelance dancers in a think tank on working conditions.
