While We Were Holding It Together creates images in becoming, always changing, depending on who is looking. Is it a rock band on tour? A picnic in the forest? A hotel room in Bangkok? We look, imagine and reinvent while searching for what is hidden and for what we want to see.

The piece negotiates the relationship between imaginary and physical, personal and collective, position of performer and position of spectator. Whilst continuously provoking shifts in perception and sense, Ivana Müller creates a show that is disquieting, moving and yet genuinely funny.

Concept, choreography - Ivana Müller
Text - Ivana Müller, Bill Aitchison, Katja Dreyer, Pere Faura, Karen Røise Kielland, Stefan Rokebrand, Jefta van Dinther
Performance - Katja Dreyer/Sarah van Lamsweerde, Pere Faura/Ricardo Santana, Karen Røise Kielland/Hester van Hasselt, Stefan Rokebrand/Jobst Schnibbe and Jefta van Dinther/Bill Aitchison
Artistic advice - Bill Aitchison
Sound design - Steve Heather
Light, technique - Martin Kaffarnik

While We Were Holding It Together is produced by LISA in coproduction with Sophiensaele Berlin, Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg), Dubbelspel (30CC and STUK Kunstencentrum Leuven). This project is financially supported by Fonds voor Amateurkunst en Podiumkunsten (FAPK) and Mondriaan Stichting.

texts

Philosophical Trip With A Maelstrom Of Images And Ideas - Fleur Bokhoven
The Spectator’s Piece - Pieter T’Jonck
Theatrical Research That Pulls No Punches - Hans van Dam
While We Were Holding It Together - Ng Yi-Sheng
Radio Klara, Program Ramblas - Pieter T’Jonck
Collected Press

performance dates

2006
Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (NL)
STUK, Leuven (B)
Kikker, Utrecht (NL)
Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)

2007
Vooruit, Ghent (B)
Springdance Festival, Utrecht (NL)
Bollewerk International Festival, Fribourg (CH)
ImulsTanz festival, Vienna (A)
Kaaitheaterstudio, Brussels (B)
Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
Nederlandse Dansdagen, Maastricht (NL)
Moving in November Festival, Helsinki (Finland)
JUTA, Düsseldorf, Impulse Festival (D)
Studiobühne, Cologne, Impulse Festival (D)
Prinz Regent Theater, Bochum, Impulse Festival (D)
Ringlokschuppen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Impulse Festival (D)
Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)
Theater Chassé, Breda (NL)
100 Dessus Dessous, La Villette, Paris (F)

2008
Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (NL)
Plaza Futura, Eindhoven (NL)
National Museum of Singapore (Singapore)
LOW Festival, Budapest (H)
deSingel, Antwerpen (B)
Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (A)
Theatertreffen, Berlin (D)
Fabrica de Movimentos, Porto (P)
Dance Week Fesival, Zagreb (Croatia)