detheatermaker

This performance is like any other performance, except that somewhere the stuff it is made of is beginning to decompose. That is where we begin.

“I lost something that was essential to me, and that no longer is. I no longer need it, as if I’d lost a third leg that up till then made it impossible for me to walk but that turned me into a stable tripod. (…)I know I can only walk with two legs. But I feel the useless absence of that third leg and it scares me.” Clarice Lispector – The Passion According to G.H.

What if instability turns out to be the very thing that gives us the greatest sense of stability? In Long Voyage Home, we enter a world that has let go of its fixed form and travel through this unstable reality. Marthe Koning and Gerben Vaillant create a fluid world that is as unpredictable as the world around them. Dance, song and performance shed their boundaries, while the falling theater curtains open up an increasingly amorphous world. There are no promises, there are no premises, there is no certainty. Long Voyage Home is a performance that has let go of the ambition to be understood.