vr 6 november 2026

Dans – ARK I Connor Schumacher

Asset, Liability & Equity

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How do you survive in a system that completely surrounds you on all sides and determines what is possible, what is not, what is allowed or not allowed? What behavior is expected from the outside world, while on the inside a turbulent energy churns that drives you toward something else?

About performance Asset, Liability & Equity

We are here to prepare you for the world. We are made in your image. We want to follow your will, but we cannot hear your voice, and your spirit is confusing. Do you want more nurturance or more dominance? We’re here to practice. To work. To work it out. Competition disguised as love. Empathy mistaken for weakness. Authority that calls itself protection. Care that demands obedience. This is a dance. This is theater. This is work. 

Asset, Liability & Equity is partly a tightly and brilliantly designed, virtuosically performed choreography, but it may also evoke a sense of discomfort. In an absurdist spectacle with the intensity of an arena, the presenter, the MC of the performance, creates an environment in which dancers and audience together feel the toll of capital, entertainment, status and gratification. In this new production, Connor Schumacher challenges the audience to be more than a voyeur and makes them an active participant of the offering. 

Reach. Reach out. Let me be brave. Let me take responsibility for the weight of this. You'll love it, you'll hate it, but the question is: how much can you take?

Content warning: Full nudity, Scenes of violence. Age recommendation: 18+.

  • Direction and Choreography Connor Schumacher
  • Script Connor Schumacher
  • Dramaturgy Maaike Schuurmans
  • Made in collaboration with & performed by Simomo Boujarra, Inci Gül Civelekoğlu, Marilou Fortuné, Naomi Rosa, Matheus Moreira, Ischa Statie, Cain Wittenhaus
  • Rehearsal Director Majon van der Schot
  • Opening acts No Limits! Art Castle
  • Music Nikos ten Hoedt, Mathilde Nobel
  • Costumes Patchwork Family, Marco Blazevic, Meike van Lelyveld, Salome.
  • PWF Interns Cato Devilee, Femke Buis, Rozemarijn Wouters
  • Light Design Edwin van Steenbergen
  • Technique Edwin van Steenbergen
  • Scenography Edwin van Steenbergen, Patchwork Family
  • Production Christel de Wolff
  • Twee mensen dansen
  • Mensen dansen in mist
  • Mensen dansen in kostuum
  • Vijf mensen dansen in kostuum met nep darmen
  • Vijf mensen dansen in ondergoed
  • Mensen dansen op rond podium in ondergoed

About ARK / Connor Schumacher

ARK/​Connor Schumacher, founded in 2020 by Connor Schumacher, is a Rotterdam-based dance orga­ni­za­tion that brings social chore­o­graphy to life. ARK’s work moves people, physically and mentally, from the intimacy of theaters to the energy of festivals and clubs. ARK’s deepening in essential soft skills was shaped by parti­ci­pa­tion in inter­na­ti­onal dance research projects such as Empowering Dance and Dancing Museums. This led to colla­bo­ra­tions with insti­tu­tions such as Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Louvre.

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