This festival celebrates the power of mime and performance in all their forms: physical, associative, poetic, and engaged. With an accessible and surprising program, ZÉRO invites a broad and curious audience to come and see, feel, and experience.
This festival demonstrates how the body tells stories, how performance can make us feel something that is difficult to explain. From small, intimate works to bold theatrical gestures, from deeply personal to politically or socially charged: ZÉRO shows how rich and relevant mime and performance can be.
During this festival, you'll see in Kikker the performances of Lisa Schamlé, Gerben Vaillant, Çiğdem Polat, and Camille Paycha.
ZÉRO Festival is an initiative of Schweigman&, Golden Palace, and Jakop Ahlbom Company, in collaboration with Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Theater Kikker, and Theater Utrecht. Students from the Master in Scenography (HKU) and the Mime Program (AHK) also contribute to the program's content.
ZÉRO is for anyone who wants to be touched, challenged, or surprised—with or without words.
I seek to transform, shifting from objectification to self-narration, reclaiming my body’s narrative as my own.
Throughout my life, my body has never felt truly mine, often overshadowed by external expectations. I’ve critiqued my body relentlessly, chasing an elusive ideal within. The weight of the male gaze haunts my thoughts. Now, I strive to liberate myself from societal norms dictating womanhood. How do I silence judgmental voices within? This art is my exploration to escape ’the outside eye’ and uncover genuine desires.
on smoke and airconditioning | Gerben Vaillant
“Contrary to my usual way of working, I want to tell a story with a beginning, a middle and a ‘grande finale’. Followed by silence; rain and wind gradually picking up.''
‘’I also want to come to love my characters; their things, their little details and the way they talk. Finally, I want to miss them when they’re gone.
All things considered, the big picture: one day, ultimately, I want to be someone who says ‘yes!’ to life.” – the author
on smoke and airconditioning is a frail story that trembles in the telling, and is always on the verge of collapse. A production where the makers relate to what it means to bring fiction to life, seen from that melancholy universe of people and characters for whom life cannot be taken for granted. Through text, image, and movement, on smoke and airconditioning is a study for ‘a sense of life’.
60 degrees of separation | Camille Paycha/Boegbeeld vzw
60 degrees of separation is an invitation to let yourself be transported by the pleasure of the
collective.
Everything and everyone moves around you. The drummer is on a rolling podium. The acrobats are in the air, hanging on one aerial strap only. The two acrobats are holding hands and will need yours...
Guided by the driving sound of the drums and thanks to you, being present within reach of the
action, impressive tricks will come to life. Let's explore, together, the intimacy linked to circus movements and the joy of the collective.
6 degrees of separation is the name of the theory that says you are at most 6 handshakes away from
every other person in the world.
60 degrees is about the angle needed to lift someone off the ground if the person has one hand in
the aerial strap and one hand pulled by someone else.
60 degrees of separation is the combination of both and the name of this circus performance.
di 16 september
20:30u
di 14 oktober
20:30u
di 09 december
20:30u
di 03 februari
20:30u
![Double bill: FR/AGILE & REFRACTION [breaking light]](https://www.theaterkikker.nl/cache/double-bill-fragile-refraction-breaking-light.14966/double-bill-fragile-refraction-breaking-light-s500x500.jpg)
wo 25 februari
20:00u
do 26 februari
20:00u
vr 10 april
20:00u
za 11 april
20:00u
Met What You See contextprogramma
di 21 april
20:00u
di 21 april
20:30u
