8–11 januari 2025
Dans – Conny Janssen Danst, Via Berlin and Ragazze Quartet
Normality No More
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What do we consider to be normal? And who decides? In Normality No More - a fusion ofmusical theatre, modern dance and classical music – three highly rated companies create a neurodiverse experience on stage. Boundaries between normal and strange, neurotypical and neurodiverse, spectator and participant will disappear. Where are you on the spectrum?
A bestseller in classical music, Schubert's Winterreise, is deconstructed to the bone and rebuilt all over again. In the original Winterreise, the protagonist embarks on a lonely winter journey after his love has left him. Seeking inner peace, but tormented and haunted by memories, he is left on the ice in despair. In Normality No More modern dance, musical theatre and classical music fuse into a new version: an ode to the divergent brain and a call for understanding and empathy for people who experience the world differently than the great masses.
- Concept Ragazze Quartet, Dagmar Slagmolen, Davide Bellotta
- Direction Ria Marks
- Choreography Davide Bellotta
- Coaching and Advice Conny Janssen
- Stage design Thomas Rupert
- Costume design Dieuweke van Reij
- Light design Remko van Wely
- Sound design Robert van Delft
- Rehearsal director Erik Spruijt
- Text Lucky Fonz III, Dagmar Slagmolen a.o.
- Musical advice & arrangements Jan Pieter Koch
- Actor Dagmar Slagmolen
- Dancers Adi Amit, Thomas Fauc (stage), Yanaika Holle, Kenji van Nieuwenhuizen, Gaspar Ribeiro, Mariko Shimoda, Yashasvi Shrotriya
- Musicians Rosa Arnold, Annemijn Bergkotte, Nathalie Flintrop, Arturo den Hartog, Vitaly Medvedev, Enric Monfort, Genevieve Murphy, Ntjam Rosie, Jeanita Vriens
About Ragazze Quartet
With attractive but unconventional programmes Ragazze Quartet has come to be one of the most fresh and leading voices in the world of classical music. In innovative programmes it embarks on collaborations with the most original voices in theatre, dance and literature.
About Conny Janssen Danst
Conny Janssen Danst has been one of the most prominent modern dance troupes in the Netherlands since 1992. This Rotterdam company is widely known for the highly physical and theatrical strength of the dancers and the surprising diversity of its performances, in which pure dance is coloured with a human touch. About Via Berlin
Via Berlin tells personal, recognizable stories with a completely unique form of music theater that symbolize universal and social themes that concern us. War, illegality, loneliness, segregation, dangerous relationships, populism… developments in the world put our thinking on edge. We tell these stories in moving performances with classical music, movement and newly written texts.