Transformers
A physical play with intimacy and gender-rolls in urban spaceHow do gender roles and physical touch influence our behaviour and ways of making contact in the urban public space?
Transformers is a dance performance made to travel through the streets of a city center in which youngsters playfully comment on the cliché of the group- and the associated boy/girl identity. When does not violence, but intimacy become threatening? How free are you (as a young person) to be who you want to be, within a group, in the city, in a country? And is it not that you are caught by definition if you try to free yourself from all clichés?
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What is intimate and what is not is determined by the dancers, using the public space they themselves have chosen. The actual choreography in Transformers thus turns out to be that of the spectator.
Henri Dorst **** / review Theaterkrant (in Dutch)
CREDITS
Concept: Jasper Džuki Jelen and Mojra Vogelnik Škerlj I Choreography: Jasper Džuki Jelen with Jade van den Hout and performers I Dramaturgy: Mojra Vogelnik Škerlj I Music mix: Robbert Klein I Dance: Aissa Kraaijenbrink, Andrea Renon, Ayse nur Salli, Dylan Holly, Fiona Dekkers, Georgia Begbie, Ilidia Medina, Jonathan Eduardo Brito, Lashawn Darice Jordan, Rebecca Wijnruit, Sergio Jerome Debevère en Thu Hang Pham I Costume advise: Kim van der Zijde I Artistic advice/guidance: Hildegard Draaijer I Production: DOX Utrecht I Photography: Kamerich&Budwilowitz I 2018
