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Installatie, Language no problem
SPRING: The quiet
Anthony van Gog
Performance, Language no problem
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.
Over SPRING
SPRING Performing Arts Festival is een tiendaags internationaal festival met vernieuwende dans, theater, performances en meer in de stad Utrecht. Je vindt SPRING in het theater, op bijzondere locaties en in de openbare ruimte. Op het festival zie je ruim 25 avontuurlijke en urgente voorstellingen van zowel dichtbij als ver, die vragen durven te stellen over de staat van de wereld. Je kunt je laten verrassen door nieuwe artistieke vormen en je laten inspireren door andere manieren van kijken naar de wereld om je heen. Tijdens SPRING ontmoeten makers en een nieuwsgierig publiek elkaar voor uitwisseling, discussie, inspiratie en plezier.
About SPRING
SPRING Performing Arts Festival is a ten-day international festival with innovative dance, theatre, performance and more in the city of Utrecht. You will find SPRING in the theatres, at special locations and in public spaces. At the festival you will see over 25 adventurous and urgent performances from both near and far that dare to ask questions about the state of the world. You can be surprised by new artistic forms and inspired by other ways of looking at the world around you. During SPRING, makers and a curious audience meet for exchange, discussion, inspiration and fun.
