We all die… Every. Single. One of us.
Rick Wardenier
Location: Frascati 3
Dates:
- GENRE: Mime, Performance Art, Storytelling
- THEME: IdentiWho?, Speaking Bodies, Voicing the Unvoiced
- LANGUAGE: Dutch
- Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
duration of the performance: 35 min
This performance is a last dance. A last attempt at avoiding the inevitable. Rick’s last chance to embrace himself. In a poetic and physical way, he tries to escape his own spine. In October 2025 he will undergo surgery for scoliosis.
Rick Wardenier creates this performance on the eve of his surgery for fearful pessimists in particular. In an abstract surgical theater with a floating balloon, He will be tied to his own dark fantasies. With Coke Zero as an anesthetic, cheese onion chips as his medication and live music by Antonia Keersmaekers which will portray his biggest fear: death.
Biography
Rick Wardenier (2002) graduated from the Amsterdam Academy of Theater and Dance. His performances are oftentimes absurd and poetic. Visual language is an important starting point in his work from which he wants to challenge the audience to use their own imagination.
In Amsterdam he met Antonia Keersmaekers with whom he has since been collaborating. Together they founded Zwoll&Mol. As creators, by using physical improvisations in which they take to the floor themselves, they try to pull the utmost out of each other. The farmlands of Overijssel and the Belgian frietkot melted together.
credits
Concept and performance – Rick Wardenier
Live music and performance support – Antonia Keersmaekers
Dramaturgy – Yahmani Blackman
Production – Nanne Walkate
Costume – BLYSS
Photo and video – Christiaan den Dulk
Special thanks to – Victor Wardenier and Theater De Landing
Supported by – Janivo Stichting, Stichting Another Shot, Stichting Pieternel, Stichting Het Amsterdamsche Fonds and Zwoll&Mol
