OUT OF THE BOX 2.0
Physical, visual performance about creativity within limitations
You know them, people who say you just have to think 'out of the box'. But 'the box' has quite a few different meanings: from 'baby parking', to a world-dominating conspiracy, from being in your 'comfy-zone' to a cage fight. So what do we actually mean by that?
Out of the box is a physical, raw and acrobatic location performance for audiences of all ages dealing with 'being limited'. In this physical, acrobatic and visual location performance for young and old audiences, a group of people meet in a limited space - a life-size box that you can see into from all sides. Where one person works hard to get into the box, another wants all the space for himself, while the next tries to get rid of all the boundaries. As an audience, you are being invites to get involved with the performance, which takes place both in, and "out of the" box. Would you stop someone trying to get into the box, offer help or would you just watch? Does that boy down there belong to the performance or not? Would you like to climb into the box yourself...?
In a sequence of athletic dance, visual stillness and acrobatic inventions, the human impulse to fight ourselves free and the need to belong unfold. Out of the Box is a lighthearted reflection on times of adaptation and keeping our distance, but above all, an ode to the creativity you can find within limitation. The life-size box pops up in parks and forests, on squares, in gymnasiums, the library, at school, in front of theaters and in other surprising locations.
Out of the Box 1.0 premiered in June 2022 during the Brik Festival and played over 40 times after. In February, the 2.0 version of this performance will premiere at Krokus Festival in Hasselt.
CREDITS
Concept: Jasper Džuki Jelen & Mojra Vogelnik Škerlj
Choreography: Jasper Džuki Jelen
Dancers: Bryan Atmopawiro, Alison Duarte, Jade van den Hout, Nathalie Schmidt
Music: ArthurMusic
Costumes: Esther Sloots
Box design: Menno Boerdam
Box construction: Jitze Wils
Photography: William van der Voort
