| Title | Beings That Count & Kaputt in Hollywood |
| Makers | Barnaby Booth & Lunatics and Poets |
| Duration | 80 min |
| Part of | Language no problem |
At the invitation of Club Guy & Roni
For the Club Guy & Roni Invites series, the ensemble asks choreographers to create new work. These are always choreographers they wholly believe in and with whom they see kindred spirits. The dance ensemble’s mission is to support, guide and lionize makers, and to bring their works to a audience. It’s a mission they wholeheartedly share with Korzo’s.
This double bill features brand new work by choreographers Barnaby Booth and duo Lunatics & Poets, the latter formed by Anna Jacobs and Hanna van der Meer.
The dancers in these performances are members of our Poetic Disasters Company – the junior company of Club Guy & Roni.
Inspired by the happy endings in sitcoms such as Friends, Will & Grace and Seinfeld, choreographer Barnaby Booth takes ‘A Funny Little Show about Endings’ to create a humorous dance performance with a Lynchain twist, in which dramatic characters meet their inner motivations.
Booth, a gifted lighting designer in addition to choreographer, previously collaborated with Club Guy & Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club for the performance ‘Like a Prayer,’ shown at De Parade in 2023. The production received rave reviews from NRC and de Volkskrant, among others, and was even part of De Parade’s prestigious closing gala.
“Booth creates magical moments in Like a Prayer, in which he explores intergenerational traumas within families.” - de Volkskrant
In ‘Village Storm’ Lunatics & Poets explore the world of instinctive desires embedded in human beings. But also desires stemming from societal demands fueled by advertisements, social media and celebrity culture. Inspired by Louise Glück's collection “A Village Life” and philosopher René Girard's theories about “borrowed” desires - and our yearning for imitating those we admire - a penetrating portrait unfolds about how desire plays a role in our daily lives and how it affects our identity. Equally recognizable and confrontational.
Anna Jacobs and Hanna van der Meer are known for their impressive set and costume designs and cinematic imagery. For Club Invites 2022-23, they previously created the poetic collage performance 'Postcards from a Better Place'.
“Image, sound and movement form a beautifully fused trinity that intrigues from the opening scene to the last second.” – Theaterkrant on Postcards from a Better Place
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