Toneelschuur Haarlem ‘Language No Problem’ Theater Program September-December 2019

Toneel-en Filmschuur Haarlem offers a ‘language no problem’ program that consists of a broad variety of films, theater, dance and musical theater performances for adults, youngsters, and children. Below you find the Language No Problem theater program for September-December 2019.

LNP Theater Programme September – December 2019 

 

Theatre  

LANGUAGE  (with English supertitles) 

Vanja Rukavina / Het Nationale Theater 

Vanja Rukavina and his parents fled the civil war in Sarajevo in 1992. The solo performance LANGUAGE is based on his life experiences and his love for language – and his Korean girlfriend. 

Fri 13 Sep – 20:00 & Sat 14 Sep – 15:30 – Toneelschuur 

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Dance  

FIELDS

Astrid Boons / Korzo Producties 

In the poetic, abstract production Fields, the dancers become one with their environment. In an interplay of dance, music, and light, Boons creates images that stimulate all of our senses and tease out associations that slip away the moment we try to get to grips with them.  

Tue 17 Sep – 20:30 – Toneelschuur 

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Mime, Theatre 

What we leave behind 

Davy Pieters / Theater Utrecht 

What lives on, and what falls by the wayside? In a highly visual production featuring sixteen talented mimes and performers, Davy Pieters zooms in and out on a long chain of big events and small actions. Set to a musical melange made up of acoustic sounds and analogue synth. 

 Thu 19 Sep – 20:30 – Toneelschuur 

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Dance 

Danslokaal 7 

Conny Janssen Danst 

 This annual project by Conny Janssen allows talented choreographers to develop new works with the company’s dancers. The perfect opportunity to see new work by young, up-and-coming choreographers. 

Tue 1 Oct & Wed 2 Oct – 20:30 – Toneelschuur 

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Dance 

REDO & HERITAGE 

Shailesh Bahoran / Illusionary Rockaz Company 

 Two stunning examples of the incredible versatility of theatre-maker, choreographer and dancer Shailesh Bahoran. REDO is all about inexhaustible willpower and cast-iron discipline and features dancer Redouan Ait Chitt, who in spite of a physical anomaly has become an internationally renowned break-dancer. In HERITAGE, Bahoran uses break-dance and popping to go in search of his Hindustani roots. 

Tue 8 Oct – 20:30 – Toneelschuur  

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Dance 

B-BOY 

Maas Theater en Dans 

Five virtuoso dancers get extreme as they explore the boundaries of their physical being with brute force or cat-like agility. An explosive performance with and about break-dancers and in which film and theater, real-life and fiction seamlessly merge. 

Wed 9 Oct – 19:30 – Toneelschuur  

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Dance 

Or die trying

Alida Dors / Backbone 

Dance theatre for dreamers and fighters. Choreographer Alida Dors makes the war of attrition that is life palpable through a combination of dance, film, performance and Thai boxing. 

 Tue 15 Oct – 20:30 – Toneelschuur  

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Dance  

SHOT 

Shifft / Jasper van Luijk & Christiaan de Donder / Korzo Producties 

Visual culture is more important than ever – in fact, we have become visual culture junkies. How is this influencing how we see one another – and ourselves? 

Tue 22 Oct – 20:30 – Toneelschuur  

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Theatre  

JOE 5 

Duda Paiva Company 

 A magical world in which what was once science fiction becomes reality. Through choreographic meetings – sometimes raw and sometimes poetic – between human and being, performer and puppet, Paiva creates a universe all of her own.  

 Thu 24 Oct – 20:00 – Toneelschuur  

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Circus, Theatre 

Pie in the Sky 

Boost Producties  

The impressive production Pie in the Sky is full of breath-taking acrobatic tricks that are all about elasticity and belief. In an inflatable setting, three extremely strong acrobats and a musician are constantly challenged to defy gravity. Will they manage to find a way through this aerial existence? 

Fri 25 Oct & Sat 26 Oct – 20:00 – Toneelschuur 

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Dance 

Zooming in on Loss 

WArd/waRD / Ann Van den Broek 

 Performance, sound, text, and video merge in an intense dance production dealing with the loss of memory. Part 2 of The Memory Loss Collection. 

We will present Part 3, Memory Loss, on Tue 11 Feb. 

 Tue 29 Oct – 20:30 – Toneelschuur  

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Dance 

Cleopatra 

Danstheater AYA | ZEP 

Shakespeare’s great romance remixed in dance, spoken word, and song. 

Thu 21 Nov – 19:30 – Toneelschuur  

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Dance  

The exact position of things 

Nicole Beutler Projects / Rudolphi Producties 

An exceptional dance production from the oeuvre of renowned choreographer Nicole Beutler, who was inspired by the experiences of people with Alzheimer’s disease. She sketches a dark yet liberating universe where the familiar becomes strange and the strange becomes familiar.  

 Thu 21 Nov – 20:00 – Toneelschuur  

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Dance 

Solas 

LEINEROEBANA 

 SOLAS is a marvelous maelstrom of song, dance, text, and music, interwoven with the melancholy love poetry and lamentations of renaissance composer Dowland. 

 Fri 22 Nov & Sat 23 Nov – 20:30 – Toneelschuur  

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Dance  

Summa 

Samir Calixto / Cello Octet / Korzo Producties  

Dance production on our desire for comfort and quiet, set to music by Arvo Pärt. 

Tue 26 Nov – 20:30 – Toneelschuur  

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Dance 

(im)pulse 

Krisztina de Châtel | SALLY Dansgezelschap Maastricht | Ensemble 88 

 Dance trilogy by the grande dame of Dutch minimalist dance. 

 Tue 10 Dec – 20:30 – Toneelschuur  

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Dance 

Shake Shake Shake  

De Dansers 

A production that weaves dance and live music together – very tight. An explosive cocktail of suppressed rage and exuberant joy. Music as an infectious invitation to move – to shake off all the sorrow. 

 Thu 12 Dec – 19:30 – Toneelschuur 

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Dance 

Dansclick #21 

Sarada Sarita / Christiaan De Donder & Sedrig Verwoert 

 In ‘Q4: Quantified’ Sarada Sarita, leading light of Dutch New Way Vogue, calls for equality. The autobiographical duet ‘They/Them’ by Christiaan De Donder & Sedrig Verwoert tackles racism, toxic masculinity, and queerphobia. As always with Dansclick, the audience gets to know the makers by talking to them while enjoying a drink. 

 Tue 17 Dec – 20:30 – Toneelschuur  

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