Expect the Unexpected: You’ll be Surprised!
BB & Friends
Location: Theater Bellevue – Klein Bellevue, Meervaart Theater – Blauwe Zaal
Dates:
- GENRE: Dance, Social Arts, Storytelling
- THEME: Language, Speaking Bodies, Voicing the Unvoiced
- LANGUAGE: Dutch Sign Language, Language No Problem
- Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
So they say to me: ‘Ooh isn’t it great: an interpreter at the News and the ‘Troonrede’!’ Yes, of course this kind of accessibility is great, but sign language offers more!
Sign language is often viewed from a social perspective. In ‘Exit Comfortzone’ we reverse that image: we approach sign language as an art form and inspiration.
Boaz Blume and Brendan Lodder are two deaf performers. Dutch Sign Language is their native language. In ‘Exit Comfortzone’ they search for the possibilities offered by encounters between apparently different worlds: sign language – the silent language of the deaf -, the language of dance and the language of music. What can they do together? To find out, ‘exit the comfort zone’ is a prerequisite for everyone involved. How do they come to a fluid form that shows equality and mutual inspiration?
THIS PERFORMANCE IS PART OF FRINGE X MEERVAART ON 13 SEPTEMBER.
Biography
credits
Dance and choreography: Shanice Mitchell
Music and sound design: Thijme Ebskamp
Sign language scenario and performance: Brendan Lodder – Boaz Blume
Sign language direction: Alicia Sort Leal
Video and editing: Boaz Blume
Technique: Dagmar van Iersel and Katya de Morais
Performance concept – Artistic support – Direction: Erika Zeegers
This performance was made possible in part by:
Hermus Fonds
Stichting Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Stichting Vrienden van Effatha
Fundraising: Sharon Schelvis.