Sensory circus performance showcasing fear as a healthy emotion through aerial movement, shadow play and live music.
Young Hoops
Location: CC Amstel, Theaterzaal
- GENRE: Circus, Puppetry, Theatre
- THEME: Connection, Speaking Bodies
- LANGUAGE: English
- ACCESSIBILITY: Genderneutral toilets, Toilet for wheelchair users, Wheelchair accessible
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Spinneret is a sensory circus performance that explores fear as a force to inhabit and overcome. Performers hang and twist through the air, moving through tension and control, while shadow puppetry and live music accompaniment create an immersive space.
Inspired by Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty, Spinneret allows audiences to encounter emotional and physical dimensions of Fear. The work is further informed by Traditional Chinese Medicine, in which Fear is associated with Winter; the element of water, the kidneys, the scent of decay, the taste of salt, and the sound of groaning. These elemental correspondences shape the performance’s rhythm and choreography.
Spinneret invites audiences to linger within discomfort, to feel it, and to move through it, surrendering to vunerability, and discovering its strange and generative beauty.
Biography
Judy Young is the founder of Young Hoops, a multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, and show-maker creating work at the intersection of circus, theatre, sound, and poetic storytelling. Rooted in embodied practice, her work invites audiences and participants into spaces of grounding, imagination, and gentle self-discovery. Drawing from cultural histories, ritual, and somatic traditions, she weaves contemporary performance experiences that respond to the pace, sensitivity, and attention of modern life.
With a background in theatre and over a decade of experience in circus, movement, and performance, Judy’s practice bridges physical skill with emotional and sensory exploration. Since 2019, she has incorporated yoga, dance, and somatic practices into her teaching and creative work, developing workshops and performances that merge mindfulness with play and expression. Since 2022, she has directed three ongoing productions and published two self-authored books. She is currently studying Traditional Chinese Medicine at Shenzhou University Amsterdam, where Chinese philosophy continues to deepen and inspire her artistic practice.