| 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.
Barnaby is an award-winning choreographer and lighting designer. He graduated from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) and later went on to win a number of prizes at both the Stuttgart International Solo Festival and the Gdanski festival Tanca in Poland. From there, he completed successful projects worldwide, most notably for the English National Opera, and became an associate artist of TRAK Dance Ensemble (Austria). Barnaby Booth made the Parade hit Like a Prayer in 2023, on which De Volkskrant wrote: 'Choreographer Barnaby Booth creates some masterful moments in Like a Prayer, in which he investigates intergenerational traumas within families.'
As the name already hints, Lunatics & Poets connects different disciplines and initiates a diverse, sprawling dialogue between them. Their work has already won several prizes. The duet I am a poem, there is no way out even won three: the Club Guy & Roni partner award during RIDCC (2018), the Golden Butterfly Award Dance Fest (2019) and the first prize at Festival10Sentidos Valencia (2020).
In Postcards from a better place, which they created for Club Guy & Roni Invites in 2022, they highlight the darker side of humanity. From apparent child's play to open violence, the inner darkness often confronts us with irreversible actions, shame and guilt. The performance is a poetic portrait of the shadow side that concurrently makes us human. Quoting De Theaterkrant: 'Image, sound and movement form a beautifully fused trinity that intrigues from the opening scene to the last second.'
Korzo Zaal