Join us on a journey through a landscape of satellites, elephants, and ancient folklore, exploring how we might "reconstruct" the human body to predict extreme weather. Think folklore, mountains, mangoes, and cyborgs. 🥭🤖
Early Warning System | Agat Sharma
📆 When: Tue 21 April (Try-out) Wed 22 April (Premiere)
⌚Time: 20:00
📍Where: Frascati Theater, Amsterdam
By: @athisownpace
Thinking with: @laura__boser@sipansezgin
Scenography: @selinalosa
Sound: @george.deme.triou
Lights: @jacopo_ostuni
Communications: @yeah_ma_knee
Supported by: @atd_lectorate@afk020@frascatiamsterdam
Can we turn our bodies into sensors that can predict earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis?
Early Warning System invites you into a strange landscape consisting of satellites, sensors, elephants and sages. It's where technology meets folklore. Set in the context of climate change, the performance reconstructs the human body as a sensor forecasting extreme geological and weather events. This is juxtaposed with an old folk tale, where an elephant's dance created an earthquake. The show is a journey, where we dive into emerging technology, and contrasting philosophies, challenging what we know and how we think. It is the discomfort before an epiphany. The ideas are explored in a dream-like landscape that leaves you wondering, "how did I get here?" And eventually becomes a beckoning to the audience to tune into the dance of the elephant and become the Early Warning System.
By - @athisownpace
Thinking with - @sipansezgin@laura__boser
Scenography - @selinalosa
Sound - @george.deme.triou
Communications - @yeah_ma_knee
Supported by - @afk020@atd_lectorate@frascatiamsterdam
📆 Tue 21 & Wed 22 April
✨ Premiere: Wednesday, April 22
🎟️ Tickets via Frascatitheater.nl
We all feel guilty is an intimate performance about what we carry with us, what we share and what we try to transform. Guilt becomes something collective, fragile, tender and unexpectedly human.
All began with a wooden bench from the dairy where my father used to buy milk as a child. He kept it for years in the kitchen, then gave it to me when I left Spain. The bench travelled with me across countries but has been lost for 8 years.
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WET ROCKS, BURNT SUGAR, RISING CLOUDS.
🪨☁️🍊
Can rituals, enacted in our socially distant world, reconnect us with our own embodied wisdom, social structures, and relationships?
This question was the entry point into a theatrical intervention, where the power of intercultural storytelling invites us to reflect on the connection between woman, land, sea and the constant transformation that defines us all.
Geïnspireerd door de haenyeo, de
vrouwelijke duikers van het eiland
Jeju, verkent deze live rituele
voorstelling de diepe verbinding tussen
lichamen, landschappen en
voorouderlijke wijsheid. Vulkanisch
gesteente en oceaanwater worden
symbolen van transformatie, herinnering
en vrouwelijke veerkracht.
Grote rotsachtige sculpturen werden
gemaakt van gesmolten suiker vermengd
met houtskoolpoeder. Het proces van het
smelten van de suiker werd gefilmd en
gebruikt als een evoluerende projectie,
die texturen in beweging vastlegt die
borrelen, barsten en stollen. Zwart
vulkanisch basalt bedekte de grond. Het
hele kleurenpalet begon in zwart en wit
en werd geleidelijk aangevuld met
levendig oranje.
📸 @robertvanderree.photo
With the amazing: @kiranzizu & @bitnanda9 & @dxxntje
🙏 @ariendevries , @geartsjevanderzee , jonny and everyone who cross my path and add to this universe
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DOES A ROCK ENJOY THE RAIN?
DO YOU REMEMBER BEING WATER? 💻🦗🦜🎧🌱⛈️🎤
For the last 2 months I have been asking myself, what happens if I look differently at the relationship between technology and nature around me.
With an eye to the sounds we call natural, observing the theatre as an ecosystem of its own and the sounds that are produced there in what at first glance is just an amalgam of wires, speakers and technological clouds.
🙏 Marijke Hessels, @willemweemhoff@arlonluijten@coenberrier@m.weverwijk@mennomeijners
A JOURNEY TROUGH RESILIENCE.
The title El Aventado refers to the
agricultural technique of winnowing—the
process of separating grain from husk.
One element is heavy, the other light.
This movement, which involves lifting
and releasing, became the central
metaphor for this work: women carrying
invisible generational weight through
layered skirts, and the act of
releasing, resisting, enduring.
In the northern Pyrenees, rural women
wore multiple heavy skirts as
protection against harsh weather,
allowing them to continue working in
the fields. This piece translates that
gesture into physical choreography. The
performers wore 8 layers of skirts, and
entered the space as silhouettes. Only
their steps and the swish of fabric
were heard.
Thank you to @carly_everaert for bringing this projects to the table and @nina.perusko & @maureenangelica for bringing their souls, energy and art to it 💫
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My focus is on embracing the Fountain that I am, that emanates from:
Intergenerational relationship,
collective memory,
hospitality as an art form,
Community base work,
Visual storytelling
…
And curiosity as my superpower
So many things have crystallised for me this past one year and half.
My hunger for stories is undiminished,
and I can't wait for the ones to come.
I think and celebrate what I have achieved, embracing all the paths, people and experiences that have shared and shape my stories.
I AM WHAT I AM
and I’m ready to share it ✨
