Ondier / The bug

Imagine a room with a dim light, a low mist covering the ground. From the dark a body appears, draws closer: it has no past, no future. It starts to do the Jitterbug. But before you can grasp it, it melts away…
In ONDIER / THE BUG a parade of lonely characters passes by on an endless quest for self-expression. Actor and dancer enter an interdisciplinary waiting room, somewhere between language and movement, crafting a dark spring of suppressed souls swaying slowly between glamour and disgust, rage and silence, between sparkles and blood.  An endless, sad party, where you linger, even though the atmosphere has long since changed to that of a David Lynch film.

Sofia Norman (1999) and Sytze Bouma (1996) both graduate from ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten this year, as Dance Artist and actor respectively. In ONDIER / THE BUG they join artistic forces. Sofia is a dancer from Sweden with a love for interdisciplinary work and the absurd both in physicality and text. She did her internship with MoON production/Hendrik Aerts and performs Paradise Circus Now at De Parade 2024. Sytze is a Dutch actor with a passion for physicality and a fascination with vulnerability. In the summer of 2023 he visited New York City to study Meisner and Williamson technique at the Terry Knickerbocker Studio. His internship was with MAAS Theater & Dans in Rotterdam, where he is now also performing in GEZOCHT: KONIJN (3+).

* credits:

Concept, spel, performance: Sofia Norman, Sytze Bouma

Eindregie: Lara van Hoof

Sound design: Felix Draisma

Poster picture: Olivier Kriek

Special thanks to: Espen Hjort, Felix Schellekens, Zephyr Brüggen