SPRING: The quiet
Anthony van Gog
In The quiet, the smallest movements of sleeping, dreaming, or dying bodies are amplified into a sensory experience. Three performers lie on a raised platform. They breathe, tremble, and shudder. Their muscles tense and release. Sometimes it seems they are suffering, sometimes ecstatic. Are they sick, asleep, in transition, or simply fully present?
Through an ingenious scenography of invisible microphones, subtly manipulative sound, and intimate, painterly light, Anthony van Gog makes the invisible tangible. The quietest movements of the body, fever, shivers, sleeplessness, excitement, fatigue, are not just shown but felt.
The quiet is not a performance in the traditional sense. It is a still life in motion, a bodily poem, a quietude that creeps under the skin, moving with the subtle forces of existence.
In a world where bodies are increasingly reduced to pixels, data, and performance, The quiet brings us back to what it means to inhabit a body: raw, vulnerable, and real. An ode to the body in its purest form.
Credits
Concept & direction Anthony van Gog | Light Erik van de Wijdeven | Sound Boris de Klerk | Dance Frann Schollaert, Tim Bogaerts, Nikita Berezko | Production by DansBrabant, in coproductie met WArd/waRD | Supported by PLAN Brabant, Fonds Podiumkunsten en het Cultuurfonds.
About the maker: Anthony van Gog
Anthony van Gog (Riemst, 1996) graduated in 2019 from the Performance program at the Maastricht Theatre Academy. His work operates at the intersection of theater and visual arts, where body, sound, and space continuously engage in a dynamic interplay. Alongside his artistic practice, Anthony is pursuing a master’s in Philosophy at the University of Antwerp. Since 2023, he has been a PLAN-maker at DansBrabant. In the same year, he created the performance crowdkill.