Zooming in on a moment of speechlessness – a moment when language slips into crisis – DUST opens up and unfolds an imaginary world. There we find two characters, ‘Hmm’ and ‘Huh’, who constantly change shape. Rubbing against language, and at the same time worn away by it, they wander into a space of intimacy and confusion where they challenge the boundaries of the ‘I’.
By interweaving choreography and text, DUST explores transformation and the multiple selves, with loss and longing as its driving forces. The performance thus begins with the question: What does it mean to move outside ourselves, or to be moved?
Credits
performance, text & creation Urtė Groblytė & Judith Dhondt sound Lulu Muñoz & Giulia Rae scenography Sibran Sampers light design Caroline Mathieu costume design Gonne Vanspauwen graphic design Arno Huygens dramaturgy Liza Baliasnaja inside eye Ching Shu Huang outside eye Carolina Mendonça outside eye/text advice Chloe Chignell playing coach Marieke Schraepen movement coach Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez production Emma Steurs & NOON vzw co-produced by detheatermaker, kunstencentrum BUDA & KAAP residency support Het Bos, CAMPO, P.A.R.T.S., KAAP & kunstencentrum BUDA financially supported by the Flemish Government, Lithuanian Council For Culture special thanks to STUDIOS MA program, Steven de Belder, Stefa Govaart, Wannes Vanspauwen, Milan Van Bortel & everyone who passed by, thought with and supported the work