They Gather is an ongoing international collaborative, multimodal, interdisciplinary project, creating ‘gatherings’ of people, action, movement, and sound.
collaborative, composer, maker, performer
They Gather
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collaborative, composer, maker, performer, voice
They Gather: Everyday Freedoms
A durational work that looks at our need for freedom, and where, when and how this exists and is expressed. Engaging deliberate & incidental audiences in public spaces, ‘Everyday Freedoms’ proposes states of being while questioning ideas about value, systems, and freedoms. It is an exploration of physical and intangible containment, of boundaries between collective…
collaborative, composer, maker, performer, voice
They Gather: Lost in Feeling
A mass public participation work for audience, community and artists exploring our need to connect to others, to be seen and to be heard, ‘Lost In Feeling’ re-imagines being in a large gathering (e.g. a demonstration, a celebration) where the self is both lost within and empowered by being part of a mass gathering. Occupying…
collaborative, composer, maker, performer, voice
Sightless Seeing #2: Tessels Oogh – Sarah van Lamsweerde
During the performance ‘Tessels Oogh’, by Sarah van Lamsweerde, the audience is sensorily transported back to 1566, the year in which the Oude Kerk fell victim to the iconoclastic fury. As the Oude Kerk gradually falls dark in the evening, memories of these times are reawakened. Objects that were destroyed and stories that have fallen…
collaborative, curator, maker
Hot Listening Booth
Working to fight off cold as well as the loneliness of solitary listening, Stelios Manousakis’ and Stephanie Pan’s Hot Listening Booth is a venue for intimate listening under high temperatures: a 3-person dry sauna heated by infrared light.
composer, maker, performer, voice
Implosion – Participatory performance for voice, public, toys and instruments
Implosion is a participatory performance originally created for Modern Body Festival 2016, in which audience members find themselves collaborators in a dynamic and chaotic composition.
collaborative, maker, performer, taiko, voice
Red Forest – Belarus Free Theatre
Aisha is on the run. Forced to flee her village and give birth to her baby girl in the Sahara, she crosses the globe in search of shelter. But to find it, she must overcome the terrible cruelties of nature and man. An epic new legend for the 21st century, created from extraordinary true stories…
maker, participatory, performer, voice
Raffle Radio Game – Interactive performance for performer, public, 30 radios and instruments
Raffle Radio Game is an interactive performance piece for performer, public, 30 radio receivers, and various instruments by Stephanie Pan. The piece was commissioned by Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, and had its initial performance on 1 Feb 2014.
maker, performer, solo, taiko, voice
You Are Here: a multi-media performance in three parts for performer, 10m dress, homemade taiko and chocolate cake (2010)
A carefully constructed miniature of the world; a piece where the performer as maker as performer controls all elements of the performance itself. You Are Here: is reality as a construction of the mind. More than theatrical acts, it is states of being, where nothing ‘happens’, but everything exists. It is alternatingly intimate and warm,…