Swan Lake

Swan Lake

Club Guy & Roni + Slagwerk Den Haag + Tomoko Mukaiyama

An online + offline audience chooses its own ending to the ballet classic

What do you get when you unleash the idiosyncratic, international dance group Club Guy & Roni on the classic ballet known in the Netherlands as Het Zwanenmeer? You get Swan Lake: a remix of the classic work, in the form of an event running in parallel online and offline from three locations in the theatre. A performance about our desire to escape into a perfect fairy-tale world and the danger of losing touch with reality.

The live audience at the venue walks from scene to scene and is forced to make choices along the way that determine how the performance proceeds. At the same time, viewers participating in Swan Lake the game online will also determine how the fairy tale ends.

Everyone has a say, and with this influence comes responsibility. By spotlighting the Swan Lake audience’s responsibility, the creators of the piece aim to explore how we might proceed following a crisis. The term black swan is used to denote an economic phenomenon that was impossible to predict but nevertheless has a huge effect on the system. How should we proceed now that the combined black swan of Covid-19 and the climate crisis has upended our fairy-tale democratic, liberal consumer’s paradise? Will we start a new story together?

Credits

Cast: 
Adam Peterson, Angela Herenda, Camilo Chapela, Enrique Monfort, Felix Feenstra, Harold Luya, Igor Podsiadly, Jesula Visser, Jochem Braat, Jonathan Bonny, Niels Meliefste, Rosie Reith, Sanne den Hartogh, Tatiana Matveeva, Sam Corver, Sofiko Nachkebiya, William English, Zaneta Kesik

Crew:

concept + choreography: Roni Haver + Guy Weizman in collaboration with the performers
text: Rik van den Bos
music by: Kordz (Alexandre Kordzaia), Tchaikovsky, Camille Saint-Saëns
set design: Ascon de Nijs
costume design: MAISON the FAUX
light & video design: Maarten van Rossem
online
art design: Martijn Halie

 

Project is financed by Tbilisi City Hall, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia and Creative Georgia.

Date: 27 November
Hour: 22:00 (GMT+4)

Performance tickets are free of charge, however, there are limited number of invitations, to get the invitation please fill in this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IWrCc9LiYPObU8n1iisVTUaeb8mTFD7TSg4jmxoCzJI/edit?fbclid=IwAR0CC2k2fB85VDA9DNdd-Wz33BB4TAq2JxT2OxaArQ1xyZSkm_lZKK7sYf0

You will receive the tickets on 27th of November.