Borrowed Landscapes (2008) - choreography Anouk van Dijk

Just being who you are and doing what you want. Being free is the great aim of our time. We've all warmly embraced the belief that 'the choice is yours'. On closer inspection, our freedom proves less unconditional than we like to pretend. Whether we try to blend in or stand out, break the rules or abide by them, choose to buy or not buy, elect either him or her - in each choice we make, we're always relating to a much bigger reality that is actually far beyond our reach. What freedom do we have to invent ourselves, and to what extent does the experience of our personal lives depend on what we're constantly being told to do, think, feel and believe?

The title Borrowed Landscapes refers to a technique from Japanese gardening, in which the designer makes the garden blend in with its surroundings, so that both elements combine to form a greater whole. The positioning of stones and pebbles, the movement of wind and water, and the choice between symmetry and asymmetry formed the building blocks and inspiration for Anouk van Dijk's choreography. Alongside this visible construction, the dancers are also situated in a 'borrowed landscape', which is invisible to the audience yet tangibly present. Do the dancers move themselves, or are they being moved? What is steering them - or who?

Concept/choreography: Anouk van Dijk
Created for and with: Peter Cseri, Philipp Fricke, Birgit Gunzl, Angela Müller, Nina Wollny
Composition: Hubert Machnik
Light design: Isabel Nielen
Dramaturgy: Jerry Remkes
Costume design: Aljoscha Zinflou, Anneke Pleiter
Sound programming: Jorn van Dijk

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