𝐁𝐔𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐃Ō 🥷✊🏻
Existential courage is the courage to be fully who you are. Visible without guarantees or protection, while the world watches and judges. In full glory and at the front. It is a powerful place, but also the most vulnerable. Everyone can see it. Everyone can have an opinion about it.
To take this place requires balance between discipline, precision, inner calm, and self-control. These values of Bushidō form the dancers’ inner compass. They support the ability to take responsibility and shape the freedom and choices of their own life, even when this brings discomfort, uncertainty, or fear.
The piece BUSHIDŌ explores the tension between vulnerability and strength. What happens when you truly show yourself, without armor, and still stand?
𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
• 2nd of May:
@theaterkikker , Utrecht (try-out)
• 3rd of May:
@theaterkikker , Utrecht (premiere)
• 23rd of May:
@udd_nl tijdens
@holyfunk.official , Eindhoven (10 minute version)
• 26th of May:
@theaterbellevue , Amsterdam
• 31th of May: Zingende Beelden, Utrecht (10 minute version)
• 13th of June:
@theaterzuidplein , Rotterdam
• 13th of November:
@hetwildewesten , Utrecht
• 21th of November:
@pandp_eindhoven , Eindhoven
• 3rd of December:
@theaterinsblau , Leiden • 5th of December:
@maaspodium , Rotterdam
• 23th of December: AINSI, Maastricht
𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦
• Concept and choreography: Nina Dumoulin
• Dancers:
@shahin.damka ,
@thelorenav ,
@wanitoe ,
@ninadumoulin
• Sensei nunchaku:
@jorisnunchaku
• Sensei karate:
@shotokankarateutrecht
• Artistic coaching:
@droshah1
• Music editing & sound design:
@dizzigeetha_music
• Light designer: Huib van Amstel
• Production manager:
@joockeymary
• Photography and videography:
@sjoerdderine
• Thanks to:
@gemeenteutrecht ,
@fondspodiumkunsten ,
@cultuurfonds , Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds, K.F. Hein Fonds,
@theaterkikker ,
@hetwildewesten , Stichting Sample Culture
More info and tickets: ninadumoulin.com/bushido
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