Pleasure Island: looking back on a great week
- Fine Art
- Design
- Creative Writing
- Music
- Dance
- Theatre
The musician dances, the stage performer makes music and the dancer composes... Yesterday, first-year and second-year students from the bachelor's courses Jazz & Pop, Music Theatre, Dance, School of Acting, BEAR Fine Art, Composition for Film and Theatre and Creative Writing in Arnhem, concluded another crazy edition of Pleasure Island!
Pleasure Island is an annual interdisciplinary project in which 200 Arnhem first- and second-year students from the seven performing arts bachelor courses are mixed and matched together into creative groups for a week. In every group, there are theater, dance, music, creative writing and fine art students – one big creative hotbed, in other words.
This year, students moved into the 'old Hema' building to work on a performance, performance or presentation, under the guidance of HipHopHub026. On the last day, the students showed the final result of their creative exploration.
This time, sampling (reusing part of an existing sound recording in a new composition) was the key element of the project week. Sampling has been a fundamental aspect of hip-hop culture since its inception and has since spread to other musical genres and artistic fields. Students were encouraged to think beyond the boundaries of their own discipline and explore how sampling can be applied in their field.