Moving Futures Festival 2024

Justin de Jager - Brothers

The performance Brothers is a duet by Justin de Jager and Sem Deliveyne. This play focuses on the theme of 'brotherhood'. Inspired by their mutual friendship and experience as ‘younger brothers of..’ Justin and Sem take you on a journey of support, competition, intimacy and cooperation. Brothers is epitomised by the movement concept threading derived from breakdance. They clench limbs and create openings through which they pass together, literally and figuratively.

Choreography, concept - Justin de Jager Performance - Justin de Jager, Sem Deliveyne In collaboration with - Korzo 

Ashley Ho & Domenik Naue - songs for friends: a vinyl

Here is an album we have made for you. This is a record of loss, and also of growing up – which is almost the same thing. As the record plays from outside-in, the rings of trees are growing from inside-out. Time is spiralling and we skip rope across it. Welcome to this living room. Here, memories dismantle, marred by glitches; violence and intimacies yield to each other with tenderness. Pull, push, pull. In the emergent speculative realities, we navigate dissociation and change. This is the place where we created ourselves. Come on in. All is as constructed as it is real. 

songs for friends: a vinyl developed out of the physicality of rope-skipping, a long afternoon of reminiscence, and a co-reading of Hermann Hesse’s Kinderseele and Demian (two novels that delve into a child’s experiences of guilt and shame, of light and shadow). Domenik and Ashley grew up on opposite ends of the world. In this transmedial performance, they have built a shared world out of fractured memories that are charged with violence and intimacy. Each element – choreography, text, scenography, and sound – has been crafted by them, by hand. By placing separate memories into the same space, they activate speculative realities in which they navigate hurt, dissociation and change, no longer alone but together. The performance offers a personal, visceral, and sometimes puzzling experience that invites spectators to connect through their own memories.

Concept, choreography, scenography, text, sound, performance - Ashley Ho & Domenik Naue   Costume - Nina Perino  Opening dramaturgical guidance - Merel Heering  Closing dramaturgical guidance - Ingrid Berger Myhre  Lighting and technical support - Edwin van Steenbergen, Quintus Visser  Special thanks to - Jill Kupers, Jaz Chen Jiaxin, Kristin de Groot  Production - Dansateliers