Journey through portals and witness a queer fable with music, dance and the digital self.
RADVLAD
Location: De Sloot, Kleine Zaal
Dates:
- GENRE: Dance, Multimedia performance, Music theatre
- THEME: IdentiWho?, Queer Stories, Voicing the Unvoiced
- LANGUAGE: English
- Specific accessibility description, check our festival page for more info, Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
duration of the performance: 40 min
How many divas live inside of you? Is one of them your own mother, a drag queen, perhaps a famous YouTuber, a TikTok star, your child self, or the future you? How often do they scream, sing, cry, or dance with you? Which parts of you do they make up? Which parts of them do YOU make up?
Grab RADVLAD’s hand as they take you through Portals to digital fantasy worlds. Feast your ears and eyes on this theatrical pop rendition of the queer protagonist’s journey through love, guilt, heartbreak, coming out, aging and rebirth. The TV screen on stage becomes a portal, revealing the different personas that make up RADVLAD and the worlds they inhabit. As they sing and dance through these fable-like universes, they whisper stories of a confused Zillenial, a queer North Macedonian expat, the digital era, and the ever-changing self.
Biography
RADVLAD is the musical project of Vladimir Vidanovski (1996), a multimedia artist from North Macedonia, whose work deals with the manipulative properties of the image, and how image culture circulates and evolves in unique ways during digital times. He obtained his BA of Design in the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2021.
His practice involves building worlds and creating characters through photography, motion imagery, music, CGI and performance. With this, he tells stories often stemming from his own memories, desires and observations from his Online wanderings. This results in works that question reality by using technological advancements and the vastness of the human mind as motives.
In 2021 he was selected and awarded for his graduation work at the 2021 edition of Steenbergen Stipendium in Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. Other awards include a prize for his short film Point me to Utopia in the 2020 edition of Roots Film Festival in The Hague, and two awards for the film Two Birds with One Stone made with Elio Troullakis at Queer Film Festival Utrecht 2024. Since 2023 he has been performing his one-person show with self-produced music under the moniker RADVLAD around the Netherlands and beyond.
