Natural Strange Days is a reflection on the duality tradition/contemporaneity, community/fragmentation-individualisation and simplicity/complexity that some people experience nowadays. All this is exposed in a context where technology and the impact of the media are confronting our natural evolutionary rhythm with the artificial needs that we create.
The people involved in the performance look back to their roots and observe what their present relationship with their own past is, at this very moment. The proposition after assuming all that is to regain simplicity and pure, simple things, as expressed in the three-line Japanese Haiku poetry.
Artistic Direction and concept: Roberto Olivan
Creation and performers: Kasia Chmielewska, Martin Kilvady, Sandra Sales, Roberto Olivan
Music composition: George van Dam, John Paul Jones
Music performance: Miquel Bernat, Gerrit Nulens, Michael Weilacher
Dramaturgy advisor: Marianne Van Kerkhoven
Lighting design: Robbie Boi, Ramon Balagué, Roberto Olivan
Set and costume design: Ruth Estévez
Sounds and video: Ramon Balagué
Technical direction: Robbie Boi
Production: Theater Het Net (Belgium)
Co-production: Werkhuys producties (Belgium)
2003
- 03/07 Grec Festival of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
- 02/07 Grec Festival of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
- 28/06 Berner Tanztage (Bern, Switzerland)
- 27/06 Berner Tanztage (Bern, Switzerland)
- 27/03 ccBe – Cultuurcentrum Berchem (Antwerp, Belgium)
- 09/02 Festival VEO (Valencia, Spain)
- 08/02 Festival VEO (Valencia, Spain)
- 06/02 Teatro Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
- 05/02 Teatro Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
- 01/02 Teatro Central (Sevilla, Spain)
- 31/01 Teatro Central (Sevilla, Spain)
2002
- 06/12 CC Sint-Niklaas Stadsschouwburg (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium)
- 23/11 TANZINOLTEN (Olten, Switzerland)
- 30/10 CCHA – Cultuurcentrum Hasselt (Hasselt, Belgium)
- 28/10 Festival Periferias (Huesca, Spain)
- 04/10 c. c. CasinoKoksijde (Koksijde, Belgium)
- 20/03 Théâtre Le Manège (Maubeuge, France)
- 19/03 Théâtre Le Manège (Maubeuge, France)
2001
- 15/12 De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- 14/12 De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- 13/12 De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- 12/12 De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- 08/12 Theater Het Net (Bruges, Belgium)
- 07/12 Theater Het Net (Bruges, Belgium)
- 06/12 Theater Het Net (Bruges, Belgium)
- 01/12 Theater Het Net (Bruges, Belgium)
- 30/11 Theater Het Net (Bruges, Belgium)
- 29/11 Theater Het Net (Bruges, Belgium)
- 13/10 Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris, France)
- 12/10 Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris, France)
- 02/09 Zeeland Nazomerfestival (Middelburg, the Netherlands)
- 05/07 Festival Cruïlles – Teatre Auditori Felip Pedrell (Tortosa, Spain)
- 23/06 Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium)
- 22/06 Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium)
- 21/06 Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium)
- 20/06 Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium)
- 19/06 Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium)
- 16/06 Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium)
- 15/06 Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium)
- 14/06 Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium)
Download here Natural Strange Days brochure.
And for more information write us at [email protected].
2001
- Un geni anomenat Roberto Olivan (L’Ebre).
- Lines of forcé, vanishing point (La libre Belgique).
