Holy Fools

When there’s a quiet, collective holiness in simply surviving the sidewalk

Holy Fools is an intimate performance inspired by the words of novelist and poet Jack Kerouac's Midnight Universe. Like his spontaneous prose, we experience six dancers moving through a live practice of physical poetry, underscoring the mad, the desperate, and the beautiful outcasts. Those who illuminate the margins of our world and there make them more meaningful.  

The choreography of Holy Fools by Korzo maker Lea Ved (former NDT and Royal Swedish Ballet dancer) feeds on raw, unpolished movement and physical vulnerability. Like Kerouac, who migrated across America, the work explores the loneliness of existence, while inviting us into flashes of profound intimacy with others and with ourselves. Composer Laura Kampman weaves the often unnoticed, everyday rhythmic sounds of the city into something meaningful and intimate through live sound design.

Holy Fools celebrates the hunger for spiritual freedom and the desire to break free from social conventions, while holding up a mirror: a physical reminder that there is a quiet, collective holiness in simply surviving the sidewalk.

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Credits
Directed and choreographed by Lea Ved in collaboration with the artists | Performers: Annika Verplancke, Jeanne Hensinger, Lisha Chen, Thomas Fauc, Pieke Massen, Ky-Anh Tran | Live Sound Design and Composition: Laura Kampman