Three physically strong performances that show what we have in common in a divided world of pigeonholes.
ORGANIZED BY Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Meervaart and the Nederlands Theater Festival
- GENRE: Dance, Performance Art, Social Arts
- LANGUAGE: Dutch Sign Language, Language No Problem
- ACCESSIBILITY: Assistance dogs welcome, Genderneutral toilets, meet and feel possible, Toilet for wheelchair users, Wheelchair accessible
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COMMON GROUNDS is an evening where movement opens the conversation. Three performances — CRI(S)P, Momentum and Badke (remix) — show how bodies break free from expectations and discover new forms of connection. Through rhythm, sound, gesture, touch and silence, a shared language emerges.
Performers meet, separate and find each other again, creating a landscape of encounters where distance shifts into contact and dance becomes a source of imagination and freedom. In the foyer, Meervaart Jong Atelier presents masksinspired by the work of Jasmijn Vermeeren.
Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Meervaart and the Nederlands Theater Festival bring these works together because they highlight stories that deserve far more space: honest, urgent and full of life.
COMMON GROUNDS invites you to be surprised, to embrace difference, and to experience how movement can bring us closer.
Programme
19:00 Meet and Feel for visitors with a visual impairment – FOYER
20:00 CRI(S)P – Ismini Slijper in collaboration with Athina Botonaki & Dimitra Sofroniou – BLUE HALL
20:40 Momentum – Leefmeesters in collaboration with Boaz Blume and Brendan Lodder – FOYER (free entry, no ticket required)
21:15 Badke (remix) – laGeste | Stereo48 – RED HALL
22:15 End of event
All evening Meervaart Jong Atelier Exhibition – free entry
Ticket prices
Meet and Feel: free
Meervaart Jong Atelier exhibition: free
CRI(S)P: €13.50
Momentum: free
Badke (remix): €25
Combi-ticket: €30
accessibility
This event is accessible to people with visual and/or hearing impairments, is wheelchair accessible, and a lift is available. Assistance dogs are also welcome.
For people with visual impairments, there is a Meet and Feel at 7:00 PM for the performance Badke (remix).
Do you have any questions or requests? Please contact us via tickets@amsterdamfringe.nl.
This event is Language No Problem.
‘Cri(s)p’ is a multisensory dance performance accessible to people with and without visual impairments. A sensory journey that explores how dance can be experienced beyond the visual.
The performance immerses the audience in a stimulating universe, somewhere between urbanity and nature, where all senses are addressed equally. Bodily experience and rational knowledge intertwine, while intimacy, imagination and curiosity open new forms of understanding.
An exploration of sensory perception, language and interpretation; of what we (think we) see and understand, and how meaning can become a bodily experience (again).
Dancers Petra Haans and Manuel Kiros Paolini from the Leefmeesters dance company perform their duet from the performance Momentum. Momentum is about that one moment that turns everything upside down, whenthe unexpected crosses your path and forces you to find new strength. It is a dance performance about choices, encounters, and the question: how do you move forward? In the duet, Petra dances her story: vulnerable, intense, and at the same time full of energy. Let yourself be swept away by a personal story that touches your heart and invites you to reflect on your own life moments.
The Leefmeesters dance company creates dance performances that address social issues. Guided by an inclusive vision, we bring dancers of different ages, backgrounds, body types, and experiences together on stage. Leefmeesters shows that the stage belongs to everyone.
A remix is an edited version of an existing song. Badke(remix) is a remake of the dance performance with 10 Palestinian dancers that toured worldwide between 2013 and 2016, created by Koen Augustijnen, Rosalba Torres and Hildegard De Vuyst. The reissue of Badke is now artistically in Palestinian hands, namely Amir Sabra and Ata Khatab, and becomes Badke(remix). The title is a conscious reversal of dabke, the name of the Palestinian folk dance and the starting point of the performance. With backgrounds in traditional dabke, contemporary dance, hip-hop, capoeira or circus, the Palestinian performers bring a contemporary version of this dance that is traditionally reserved for (wedding) parties. Badke(remix) displays a zest for life and passion for dancing as a form of resistance. In Badke(remix), a contemporary version of the vernacular, non-academic variety is chosen, an explosion of joy, a lively physical expression that speaks of connection, an affirmation of belonging somewhere. Throughout the festive surface of Badke(remix), that other reality permeates, like cold gusts of wind through the chinks of a poorly insulated house. But in the end, the thought still prevails: we’re not going to let anyone tell us what to do. We will dance until we drop.
The Meervaart Jong exhibition can be viewed in the foyer of Meervaart. After a year full of creating, discovering, and experimenting, the participants of the Atelier classes proudly present their work here.
This year, the portrait took center stage. The young makers explored not only how to depict a face or person but also how material can play a meaningful role within an artwork. In doing so, they drew inspiration from the work of Jasmijn Vermeeren.
Jasmijn Vermeeren (1996) is a visual artist from Utrecht. Drawing on her experience with an invisible disability and chronic pain, she explores through photography, collage, video, text, and installations how the body, identity, and vulnerability can become visible. Vermeeren identifies as a crip artist: a term used by artists with a disability to critically question established norms regarding beauty, health, and representation.
Drawing on this inspiration, the participants went in search of their own visual language. The result is a multifaceted exhibition full of personal stories, experiments, and surprising materials.