From Info Eevo Lute Sent Mon, Aug 21st 2000, 01:58
From Info Eevo Lute Sent Mon, Aug 21st 2000, 01:58
A little off topic.....but I think this might interest some people on this list....... Terminal is about death and the question if and how we really experience and live our lives to the full. Death poses many questions, most of which remain unanswered. Still, dealing with death can be valuable. Realisation and acceptance of the radical ending of our life can lead to an enormous realisation of freedom. The more we are capable of facing our death, the bigger our inner freedom will be. A person prepared to die is a true free spirit.. Terminal With Terminal Het Witte Vuur brings theatre as a real-life video. A hallucinating range of theatre, film, and text will be brought in conjunction with a concert of Acid Junkies' leading man Stefan Robbers. With Terminal Het Witte Vuur wants to present the audience with a complete experience, stimulating all senses and presenting interaction between music, text, and images live. A new form of theatre which aims at a pop-, techno- and theatre audience. In Terminal five passengers on route to Toronto are followed. In the middle of the night their plane makes an unexpected stop, forcing them to stay in an airport terminal. During the play it becomes clear that the passengers, without realising it, are victims of a plane-crash in which everybody got killed. In the twilight between life and death they see their realities fall apart in a surreal way. In Terminal the audience as well as the players are at an airport terminal. In this total environment the audience will be surrounded by air hostesses, luggage carts, and monitors showing flight-data. With light and surround-sound this total experience will be strengthened even further. For Terminal Stefan Robbers (Acid Junkies) will compose new music. Every concert-performance will end in a sparkling techno-party. Terminal is partly realised by funding from het Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten (Fund for Staged Arts) and het LIRA fonds (LIRA Fund). Background With Eye Popper Party and Moving Networks Het Witte Vuur has been pioneering the last two years by flinging itself in the sparkling energy of dance-parties, thus realising daring and unconventional projects. During the making of Moving Networks it was necessary to let go of the most imperative theatrical convention - the law of keeping the full attention of the audience. Moving Networks is a four hour zap-feast, where party and art come together without any problems - a total package of dance, party, going out and theatre, dance and film. In our view of theatre-making, we are significantly inspired by the actual developments in the pop- and dance-music. Dance-music has been renewing for years - not only in musically, but also in its search for connections with other appealing cultural utterances such as video-art, dance, fashion, life-style, and performance. Dance as cultural phenomenon is fed considerably by the need of the young audience itself and has therefore a tangent plane with society: constantly it is able to reach out to a large, young audience in a natural way. Thinking along these lines makes that the accepted ideas about the 'centre-point' of theatre-experience are being discussed. When watching MTV it takes a long time before you realise what is more important: the music, the artist's looks, or the video. The 'package' is just as important or maybe even more so than what you have to offer, without affecting the artistic quality. In the case of Moving Networks the dance-party is the well-known 'package' for the youth in which we want to seek their attention for modern theatre. From experience, we have found the idea to visit a new audience on their own territory very successful. Moving Networks is very well received by theatre-programmers, press, and the audience, and is very successful with a young audience, having an average of 800 visitors. All in all, one could say that the path Het Witte Vuur has chosen has proven to be very successful. Both artistically and organisationally we can now reap what we have sown for many years. Stefan Robbers Stefan Robbers is a giant in the international dance-world with his Acid Junkies. He stands out because of the versatility in his music. This varies from hard acid/techno to intelligent and quietening ambient. Acid Junkies are renowned worldwide for their energetic live-act. With their renewing acid they enjoy a big and young audience. Robbers is also producer and owner of the innovative Eevo Lute-dance-label. Temporary playlist Terminal: August 16-20 2000 Armada Nijmegen September 2 2000 Effenaar Eindhoven September 30 2000 ChasseTheater Breda October 15 2000 Schouwburg Arnhem October 20 2000 Schouwburg Utrecht October 27 2000 Doornroosje Nijmegen Het Witte Vuur: Postbus 31143, 6503 CC Nijmegen, Nederland. Tel/Fax: 0031-24-3600154 Homepage: www.hetwittevuur.demon.nl E-mail: xx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xx