Première 18 September 2008, Amsterdam

We will be abstract, bestial, cruel, perverse, ridiculous, subtle, vulgar and fraudulent. We will reject our mortality and stay. This is a momentary pleasure. Life is here and now. We are here, and now we live. Excessively, until we drop. This has everything and nothing to do with paradise. Ecstasy, vanity and erotic surrender. Everything is artifice, everything is real.

Lost is my quiet forever is my conscious misinterpretation of a possible baroque opera. For the first time I work with singers on stage: the countertenor Maurits Musch and the (pop-soprano) singer Monica Page. This is the last piece of a trilogy after the exact position of things (2005) and Enter Ghost (2006).With this new work I examine qualities associated with the baroque period in their relevance for my fascinations in theatre today. Theatricality, abundance, overflow, celebration, sorrow - the contradiction between reason and passion is at the base of this work. We are attempting to distort the edges of a reflective distance and attempt to deviate beyond rational boundaries. Together with five performers and two singers I am searching for bodily forms for ideas of instability, unpredictability, struggle and extreme emotions - in relation to their function and effect on both, performer and spectator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxy90Hu00MA

the people involved

Idea/choreography Nicole Beutler
Dramaturgy Igor Dobricic
made in collaboration with the performers
Katy Hernan, Hester van Hasselt, Pedro Inés, Niels Kuiters, Aimar Peréz Galí
and the singers Monica Page (soprano), Maurits Musch (countertenor)
Artistic assistance Esther Snelder
Internship Giulio d’Anna
Music Gary Shepherd (DJ/composer) and Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Costume Jessica Helbach
Light Minna Tiikkainen
Technique Jeroen van Heijningen
Graphic design Connie Nijman
Photography Anja Beutler
Videoregistration Videomachas: Susanna Brenner, Helle Lyshoj
Production Nadine Zijp, Dorothea Sinnema
Publicity Eline Groeneweg
Management Inge Koks
With many thanks to David Weber-Krebs, Steve Green, Nina Hitz, Cora Schmeiser

Made possible with the support of AFK, NFPK+ and the Norma-Fonds

A LISA-production.

list of performances

16 + 17 september 2008 - Theater Frascati at the Brakke Grond, Expo-zaal, Amsterdam - try-outs

18 september 2008 - Theater Frascati at the Brakke Grond, Expo-zaal, Amsterdam - Première

19 + 20 september 2008 - idem

30 september 2008 - Chassé Theater, Breda

3 + 4 oktober 2008 - Theater Kikker, Utrecht