Welcome to the performances of the finals students of the master's course Performance Practices! For two days the graduating students are performing, and you can watch.
About the Event
SYSTEM JOY by Eleni Vasilonikolou | 17:15 | Studio 4
Enter the system. Be part of it.
// We are inputs
// We are feedback loops
// We are outputs
// We are clouds
System Joy is the output of an ongoing artistic inquiry into the nexus between systems thinking and choreography. Sliding through layers of movement landscapes, interconnections, and system thinking, this sharing offers the opportunity to explore the links that connect simple structures/patterns to emerging and complex relationalities. This is an invitation to explore the dynamics of an ever-evolving system, to grasp its potential, and to dive into a new way of perceiving and understanding the structures surrounding us. And perhaps to find some j o y as we experience life with and through systems.
Concept | Research: Eleni Vasilonikolou
Performance | Co-creation: zoe antypa, Joana Cunha Pinto, Dualtagh McDonnell-Grundy, Eleni Vasilonikolou
Original Sound design: Dimitra Sofroniou
Music: Direct Lines- Hxotopia
Light Design | Operation | Technaturg: Ryan O’ Shea
Supervision: Dr. Anja Foerschner
External Mentor: Orion Maxted
Technical Support: Irina Baldini, and the tech team: Bram Allard, Ingor Schoppers, Arjan Soutendijk, Koen Van Hensbergen, Rik Marsman
Special thanks to Diamanto, Kasia, and Thais for their support and inspiration throughout the whole process. Also, thanks to the 4bid gallery and Irina Baldini for hosting the performance lecture ‘System Joy’, The Room Project, and the Home of Performance Practices for providing the space for the workshops ‘System Joy’.
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(dis) cover (up) by Thaís dos Santos | 18:15 | Photo Studio
The body inhabits space.
Space affects the body.
In this ongoing interplay, there is no room for neutrality: Both body and space carry histories, while in constant transformation.
How can inhabiting colonial spaces challenge coloniality? This exhibition seeks to share the encounters between my body—coming from the Global South—and colonial heritage sites, investigated during the artistic research.
Through a site-specific and embodied practice, I search for traces of silenced archives and submerged memories. The aim is to unveil hidden histories and power relations, acknowledge the colonial residues still echoing in the present and confront internalized coloniality. And ultimately to propose ways of perceiving and resignifying reality.
All bodies, at all times, inhabit a space.
I invite you to open yourself to a sensitive perception of this space—its details, the ways it affects your body, and how your body alters it. Are we allowed to inhabit the space together?
Concept | Performance: Thaís dos Santos
Original Soundtrack: Caetano Ruin, Léonie Bertram
Light Operation: Kasia Zarzycka
Sound Operation | Support: Amina Riccetti Kummer, zoe antypa
Text: Thaís dos Santos
Editors: Kasia Zarzycka, zoe antypa
Supervision: Dr. Anja Foerschner
External Mentor: Verena Stenke
Technical Support: Irina Baldini
Technicians: Bram Allard, Ingor Schoppers, Arjan Soutendijk, Koen Van Hensbergen, Rik Marsman
Photography: Steef Kersbergen
Exhibition: Personal archive
Artistic collaborators: Amina Riccetti, Ana Leitão, Diamanto Hadjizacharia, Eleni Vasilonikolou, Joana Cunha Pinto, Kasia Zarzycka, Vivian Campos, zoe antypa
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the plaYroom by Diamanto Hadjizacharia | 19:15 | Theatre 1
Welcome to the playroom – a space of imagined worlds.
In the playroom, we are all players,
and our game is to build a world better than the one we left behind.
In the playroom, there’s no black or white, there’s no right or wrong – there’s only ambiguity.
Things might seem different, but they’re not
In the playroom, every choice has a consequence but that’s a good thing, right?
the playroom is both performance and research: a space where knowledge is felt, not just known. The research negotiates the potential of play to trigger collective action in participatory and politically complex performance settings. By confronting the participants with no-win dilemmas, the playroom investigates how collaboration unfolds and how game mechanics can prompt reflection on agency, ethical
decision-making, and shared responsibility.
Concept / Performance: Diamanto Hadjizacharia
Technical Assistance: Kasia Zarzycka, Joana Cunha Pinto
Supervisor: Anja Foerschner
External Mentor: Jessica Renfro
Photo: Steef Kersbergen
Special thanks to Kasia, Joana, Eleni, Thais, zoe, and Irina.
