| Duration | 105 min |
These mime talents bring two refreshing performances so human, it’ll probably make you learn about yourself a little bit more.
Nothing in common yet still connected
Four people who, at first glance, have nothing in common. Yet they’re still, in some mysterious way, connected to each other. In Svetlana, we witness a place as if watching a documentary unfold. A place where the empty spaces don’t need to be filled, because everything has collapsed anyway. A place where rituals never had a chance to arise. Ordinary, yet strangely enticing. That’s typically Fran, who, as a maker, remains extremely curious about the lack of things. Because within those absences, new things tend to emerge.
Emil leaves us on the edge of our seats in a performance that makes us wonder how far developed we really are as humans. He accomplishes this with a personal mime storytelling performance. One moment we see him walking through the forest, lost in thought. A little later he lifts weights in the gym working himself into shape. And finally, in a nightclub, he talks to a stranger and falls madly in love. It doesn't take long however before he lets go and starts to fall. A wild descent through a Grand Thef Auto-inspired gangster world that goes back to the primeval era of blue-green algae, and ultimately ends in a sunrise. SOLAR is a comforting adventure and a cosmic journey through the reptilian mind. A trip to the sun, only to court the darkness like some kind of animal.
Fran Vozila graduated in 2004 studying Mime at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam. The common thread of his pieces are the absences and empty spaces where something new can emerge. Because when something’s missing, another thing can emerge in its place. Fran considers the medium of theatre as something artificial – something that’s almost fake. By embracing this fakeness instead of rejecting it, he tries to highlight the truth and sincerity within the inherent lie of what theatre presents. At the moment, Fran is connected to Frascati productions, where he made Svetlana for the Beginnings Programs, which allows artists to take their first steps.
Emil Aron Dorph (1999) is an actor and theatre maker. During his mime studies, Emil fell in love with making performances about how we change through the outside world. To him, playing a character means becoming something new again and again, taking on a different form with every movement, always in conversation with the space around us. He believes in the stage as a construction site, where figures and worlds can be built up and broken down again. And where the performer is shaped at the same time. In his performances you often see great physical transformations, poetic and sprawling in execution, yet always with a palpable lightness.
Svetlana
Concept, text and performance: Fran Vozila
Performers: Ruth Borg, QiQi van Boheemen, Jan Taks
Lighting design: Paul Beumer
Thanks: to Tim van Dongen
Producer: Frascati productions
Solar
Performance : Emil Aron Dorph
Based on the novel by : Theis Ørntoft
Performers : Emil Aron Dorph, Teis Ortved
Final direction : Annika Taylor
Music : Teis Ortved
Scenography : Karl Emil Krebs Birkeland
Light design : Gijs Feskens
Korzo Zaal