24–25 september 2024
Interdisciplinair – Merel Severs
Coerced & Freely Given
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Merel Severs returns to her self-constructed arena where dance and martial arts meet once again. This time around, she explores the playing field between discipline and pleasure with more boxing partners and the hard-working body.
About Coerced & Freely Given
After her much-acclaimed performance Try not to know what you know, Merel selves deeper into the relationship between care, violence, exhaustion and resilience in Coerced & Freely Given. Joined by performers Milou van Duijnhoven and Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura, she brings another blistering performance with her signature energy. The trio questions the existing capitalist, patriarchal system and explores a world of intense physical effort versus gentle connection. How can nurture and interconnectedness form an active rebellion against the dominant norms in our society? As raunchy hits turn into tender embraces, the performers transform the stage into a landscape of personal stories and memories.
In Coerced & Freely Given, Merel puts the body under pressure with both discipline and pleasure. With the actors, she fights for radical softness and together they celebrate being human in all its complexity, full of emotions and impulsiveness.
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Volkskrant“Ontroerend is de scène waarbij Van Duijnhoven dicht op een heen-en-weer wiegende bokszak staat en meedeint [...] Een romantische dans met een object dat voortdurend klappen opvangt, maar kennelijk ook liefde verdient.”
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Theaterkrant“Door verschillende stadia van verzet, woede, depressie, onderlinge troost en het verzinnen van alternatieven te doorlopen, bieden Severs en haar medemakers het publiek een plek om gezamenlijk te rouwen én nieuwe strijdlust op te doen”
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