Katelijne Beukema
Swomp

Katelijne Beukema
Swomp

Katelijne Beukema
Swomp

Katelijne Beukema
Swomp

In Swomp, Katelijne Beukema investigates how we communicate about mourning. We now know that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's 5 stages of mourning are outdated, but how does mourning work then? Too often it is still like this: hiding that sadness and quickly being 'the old one' again. It should especially not take up too much space in daily life.
For the first time, Katelijne started creating a performance from a very personal fact: missing her deceased father. From the need to remove the invisibility of grief and to emphasize once again that there is no step-by-step plan or end point, she gives an insight into how grief makes its way through her life and squeezes out through all the pores in her body at the most unwanted moments. The search was: to convert the personal into a universal story. Her wish was: to make the audience feel something.
Swomp is a swamp. Swomp is a swamp. It is full of drops that have made buckets overflow, deep valleys and sharp edges. It is deafeningly quiet, because language has been lost. But if you sink deep enough, you can also laugh. Because there is a clown.
Credits
Concept en spel Katelijne Beukema Regie Silke van Kamp Kostuum Roos Herings
Muziek en advies Sebastiaan Bax Techniek Nick Herman Met grote dank aan Hanneke Voors, Eileen Graham, Patsy Kroonenberg, Ruta van Hoof, Joy Hansson, Joep Hendrikx, Studio Figur en Zaal 3. Deze voorstelling is tot stand gekomen met een bijdrage van het Amarte Fonds.