Breda, November 2017
The world is too big to change at once. The world is possibly even too big to change at all. Regardless, de Stilte wants to give it a go by showing human vulnerability through dance worldwide. Crossing national borders is not an aim in itself. As a dance company we love to exchange the creativity, the curiosity, the spontaneity and the humility we all have in common. We want to meet people, to meet a young audience. To give a sense of beauty and compassion. We offer opportunities, we offer dreams to illuminate reality, we offer solidarity. We share the same world, the same challenges between birth and death. We have the same lungs, the same heart, the same primary organs, the same blood. Within one country, there are more differences from one person to the next than there are between people separated by tribe, nation or race. What counts, is the individual. We don’t go for the numbers. We never have. One heartbreaking experience is equally important. Ten years of performing internationally, twenty three years of rehearsing and performing with an international cast makes the world a little smaller. And at the same time, not at all.
Jack Timmermans Artistic director
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about us Through our multi-layered performances and dance activities, we aim to excite the imagination, stimulate children’s playful curiosity and encourage their artistic skills. By playing, children get to know their world and learn to position themselves in an overwhelming society. Playing is the opposite of everyday routine: the child’s personal training ground. While playing, children meet the world on their terms and scale. De Stilte aims to present performances offering an opportunity and a space for the audience’s imagination. These performances take children seriously and present a new dance idiom which fuses with the theme, the scenery and music. Reality is not imitated, but portrayed and stylised. The past four years we presented 2500 performances for over 180.000 people. With the performances Flying Cow, Mad Cap and HiHaHutBuilders a.o. travelling all over the world, we have been the most internationally performing dance company of the Netherlands for years. The company broadens its basis by establishing long-term relationships with composers/musicians, choreographers and an artistic think-tank with Jack Timmermans at its centre. In coproduction with the International Stiltefestival, we offer a platform for talented choreographers with the ambition to create for children. We aim to contribute significantly to the quality and position of youth dance within the field of performing arts in the Netherlands and elsewhere. De Stilte is a member of Small Size Network.
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de Stilte festivals Opera Bastille, Paris Imaginate Fesival, Edinburg The Ark, Dublin Belfast Internation Children’s Festival euro-szene Leipzig Wroclaw Children’s Festival, Wroclaw Naj Naj Naj Festival, Zagreb Théâtre Dunois, Paris Szene Bunte Wähne, Vienna Festival Elancees, Limoges Festival de Betovering, The Hague 2Turven Hoog Festival, Almere Festival El Més Petit de Tots, Barcelona Girne American University Theatre, Cyprus CaPe Ettelbruck Centre Culturel de Rencontre, Luxembourg Scena Wspólna, Poznan Gyan Manch Theatre, Kolkata China National Theatre for Children, Beijing Macao Cultural Centre, Macao Seanse, Alesund Festival Internacional de Teatro para Niños y Jóvenes, Córdoba Tanzmesse, Düsseldorf Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children, Caïro Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, Galway Trešnja Theatre, Zagreb Assitej World Congress, Warsawa Izmir International Puppet Days, Izmir Dampfzentrale, Bern, Luaga & Losna, Feldkirch OPEN LOOK, St. Petersburg step.X, National Theater Mannheim Szene Bunte Wähne, Horn International Stiltefestival Breda Visioni di futuro, visioni di teatro, Bologna, Italië IPAY, International Performing Arts for Children USA Tweetakt in Turkey, Istanbul Festival Internacional Paidéia, São Paulo Festival Internacional de Linguagens, Rio de Janeiro Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, Ramallah Amman Contemporary Dance Festival, Amman Little Ladies Little Gentlemen Festival, Ankara State Theatre Black Sea Theatre Festival,Trabzon, DANSEMA Festival, Vilnius EU Cultural Week, National School of Drama, New Delhi Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin BIPOD Beirut International Platform of Dance, Beirut TRAFFO, Luxemburg Tramway, Glasgow Starke Stücke, Gallus Theater, Frankfurt am Main Krokusfestival, Hasselt Spielarten nrw, Semanas Internacionales de Teatro para Niñas y Niños, Madrid
de Stilte abroad A Coruña Aarschot Abergavenny Aken Albi Alençon Ålesund Amman Anderlecht Ankara Antwerpen Anzegem Arcachon Arques Asse Azemmour Bagneux Beauvais Beernem Beijing Beiroet Belfast Bergheim Berlare Bern Beselare Beveren Bezons Biarritz Bilzen Blankenberge Bludenz Boedapest Bologna Bonheiden Bonn Borgerhout Brasschaat Brecht Bredene Bree Brugge Brussel Buggenhout Bursa Caïro Calcutta Cardiff Córdoba Cornillon Créteil
Dehradun Deurne Dilbeek Dublin Duisburg Düsseldorf
Edinburgh Eeklo Eskişehir Ettelbruck Etterbeek Evergem Feldkirch Flers Fontenay-aux-Roses Franconville Frankfurt am Main Galway Gaziantep Genk Gent Geraardsbergen Glasgow Gmünd Grans Gütersloh Hamburg Hamme Hasselt Herentals Heist-op-den-Berg Helsinki Hoorn Istanboel Izegem Izmir Jouy-le-Moutier Kassel Keerbergen Keulen Kilmarnock Knokke-Heist Koksijde Konin Kortemark Kortrijk Krasnoyarsk
Krefeld Kyrenia La Courneuve Laken Lebbeke Leffinge Leipzig Leuven Leverkusen Liepāja Limoges Łódź Lommel Loos en Gohelle Lublin Ludwigshafen am Rhein Luxemburg Maaseik Maasmechelen Macao Madrid Maisons-Alfort Maldegem Mannheim Marburg Marke Mechelen Meise Menen Meudon Middelkerke Mol Mont-Saint-Aignan Moorsele Moorslede Mortagne au Perche Mortsel Münster Nekkersdal Nenzing Neumünster Neurenberg New Delhi Ninove Noisil Oloron-Sainte-Marie Ordu Overijse Overpelt
In bold: locations we visited in season 2016-2017 for the first time.
Parijs Pantin Peer Philadelphia Pittsburgh Pontivy Poznań Pulheim Puurs Ramallah Riga Rio de Janeiro Roeselare Saharanpur São Paulo Scherpenheuvel Schoten Schwabach Sijsele Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe Sint-Lievens-Houtem Sint-Petersburg Sint-Niklaas Sint-Truiden Sisak Smolyan Sofia St. Pölten Steenokkerzeel Strombeek-Bever Swansea Tampa Taza Temse Ternat Tervuren Tielt Tienen Tongeren Torhout Toruń Trabzon Trebeurden Ulm Vaduz Vannes Viersen Vilnius Vilvoorde
Waregem Warschau Wemmel Wenen Wetteren Wevelgem Wiesbaden Willebroek Willemstad Wilrijk Wroclaw Wuppertal Zagreb Zedelgem Zwevegem
Flying Cow all ages
‘a pound of feathers doesn’t fly without a bird’ – Bert Schierbeek Playtime is fun yet serious at the same time. Once you’re totally immersed, anything can happen. Flying on the wings of their imagination, two girls and a boy embark on a standoff. When there are three of you, who plays with whom? From among the rolling eggs, the shuffling old woman and the flying cow, a game of friendship, loneliness and solidarity emerges. ‘I saw the show today and I ADORED: best young audience dance show I have ever programmed: good quality of dance, funny, uplifting, rhythmic, inventive: awesome.’ – Theatre Jean Cocteau, Franconville, Marie-Fance Montant
choreography Jack Timmermans set design Bert Vogels music Timothy van der Holst costumes Joost van Wijmen lighting design Pink Steenvoorden – Einstein Design duration 50 minutes company 3 dancers, 2 technicians performance surface at least 9 x 9 x 5 metres wings 1 metre on the left and right side set up 6 hours get out 1,5 hours time between two performances 1,5 hours booking France and Spain Christelle Dubuc booking other countries de Stilte, Jan Baanstra
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Alice over 6s
how real is a dream? In the version of de Stilte Lewis Carroll is a gentleman with dubious intentions. By masquerading in various animal guises, he seeks the favours of three lovely Alice’s. But the three girls were not born yesterday and the writer’s true intentions are laid bare. Off with his head the Queen would shout. Wake up Alice! ‘The best play at the congress is, indeed, built for audiences of all ages.’ – The Guardian during the Assitej World Congress Warschau
choreography Jack Timmermans set design Bart Mostart and Martijn Hohmann animation Bert Vogels music Timothy van der Holst costumes Wiktoria Czakon and Rianne de Witte lighting design Uri Rapaport duration 50 minutes company 4 dancers, 2 technicians performance surface at least 10 x 10 x 5 metres wings no set up 6 hours get out 1,5 hours time between two performances 1,5 hours booking France and Spain Christelle Dubuc booking other countries de Stilte, Jan Baanstra
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Ain’t Misbehaving over 6s
dancing in a living room filled with secrets All in all, dinner can be a true drag. Such a nuisance, such a mess, such a racket. Finish your plate, stop playing with your food, leaving the table every other minute and then, wait? What? The children have altogether disappeared. Away, vanished! Hiding somewhere in the house… Good fun and excitement for the kids, but a nightmare for mom and dad. And as they try to track down their children, the two parents find themselves lost. In desperation, they take a leap of faith. The outcome is quite surprising. As can be expected from de Stilte. For this occasion, the Dutch company teamed up with internationally acclaimed composers Jeroen van Vliet and Mete Erker to create a dance performance that has parents reconsider, who’s misbehaving? ‘Ain’t Misbehaving is about what children experience during those brief moments when they escape from their parents attention; about the adventure of exploring your own house as well as your imagination. Children get that and any parent who still remembers his childhood days will appreciate it too.’ – Omroep Brabant
choreography Jack Timmermans music Jeroen van Vliet and Mete Erker animation Afterlight costumes Joost van Wijmen lighting design Pink Steenvoorden – Einstein Design duration 50 minutes company 4 dancers, 2 technicians performance surface at least 9 x 9 x 5,5 metres wings 1 metre on the left side set up 6 hours get out 1,5 hours time between two performances 1,5 hours booking France and Spain Christelle Dubuc booking other countries de Stilte, Jan Baanstra
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HiHaHutBuilders over 2s
imaginative duet in an intimate setting In the middle of a blue field with clouds, there’s a … well, what is it actually? Because no one knows what it is, we call it a bed, a mountain, a flat or anything else we think of. Like the fluttering of a butterfly, the stories emerge. A man and a woman appear. The man looks after the house, the woman looks after the man and the weather provides variety. de Stilte treats young and old to an imaginative story in an intimate environment. A tiny universe with dew, sun, wind, rain and snow is brought to life, in which the boundaries between audience and dancers gradually become blurred. ‘Light and playfull (…) The sympathetic thing about the approach of choreographers Jack Timmermans and Jack Gallagher is they don’t overly explain what’s going on and rightly presume young kids can handle some form of abstraction.’– Theaterkrant
duration 40 minutes company 2 dancers, 1 technician stage dimensions minimum required: performance surface 6 x 6 metres total required surface 9 x 9 x 5 metres (stage on stage setting where the audience sits around the performance surface) set up 4 hours get out 1,5 hours time between two performances 1,5 hours
ontwerp M/vG ontwerpers Breda
choreography Jack Timmermans and Jack Gallagher set design Bert Vogels music Mete Erker and Jeroen van Vliet costumes Joost van Wijmen lighting design Pink Steenvoorden – Einstein Design
booking France and Spain Christelle Dubuc booking other countries de Stilte, Jan Baanstra
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Mankind over 6s
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dancing between light and dark In Dutch MANKIND merges the words Man and Child. Never adult, growing up, on a journey. Whoever gives man a place in the universe, sees not even a dot. In cosmic time, the length of a human life is insignificant. And yet we want to be important. We’d do anything for it. We build and demolish, ascend and descend, fight each other, fairly and unfairly, directly and in a roundabout way. We want space, we want to contain, we are contained and we are restricted. We want freedom for ourselves; we take away the freedom of others. Well, that sounds rather a serious, didactic show, doesn’t it? Not at all. It’s an adventure of light and dark, an experience that gives every child the space to explore his own world. With specially composed music by Paul van Kemenade and Stevko Busch and Uri Rapaport’s light in the starring role.
choreography Jack Timmermans music Paul van Kemenade and Stevko Busch costumes Joost van Wijmen lighting design Uri Rapaport duration 50 minutes company 4 dancers, 2 technicians performance surface at least 9 x 9 x 5 metres wings 1 metre on the left and right side set up 6 hours get out 1,5 hours time between two performances 1,5 hours booking France and Spain Christelle Dubuc booking other countries de Stilte, Jan Baanstra
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coproduction Dschungel Wien (A), De Stilte (NL) and T42dance (CH)
Monkey Dreams New over 6s
if you were me, then who would you be? When is a spontaneous action considered ‘crazy’? And when do we call it ‘creative’? Everything is supposed to work according to plan. Please, as little fuzz as possible and no unexpected business, thank you. But it’s nothing like that in Monkey Dreams: like out of the blue, three characters appear and find themselves in an unfamiliar world. However, that is just the beginning. All three are inclined to a certain kind of folly and tend to come off as quite unpredictable. Together they invent their own games, their own language and rituals. For instance how to put on one coat all three at the same time, or by appointing a leader without anybody feeling the need to follow. ‘Monkey Dreams’ is a trip into the imagination. Diving into different worlds, it tells how strangers can become friends without the need of a common language. This international coproduction was created simultaneously in three different countries with each choreographer picking up the story where the other left off: a dreamlike adventure full of unexpected twists and turns.
concept & choreography Corinne Eckenstein, Félix Duméril and Jack Timmermans music Simon Ho costumes Wiktoria Czakon lighting design Hannes Röbisch duration 60 minutes performers Viviane Fabiano, Rino Indiono and Misato Inue booking de Stilte, Jan Baanstra
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de Stilte postal address P.O. Box 7211 4800 GE Breda the Netherlands visiting address office and theatre Markendaalseweg 75A 4811 KB Breda the Netherlands t +31 76 51 38 125 info@destilte.nl www.destilte.com technical department t +31 6 53 84 15 83 techniek@destilte.nl COC number Breda 41105505 VAT number NL 0085.35.851.B.01 Bank name ABN AMBRO 61.62.66.707 Account name Stichting de Stilte BIC ABNANL2A IBAN NL31BNA0616266707
booking de Stilte Jan Baanstra +31(0)76 - 513 81 25 jan@destilte.nl Booking France and Spain Christelle Dubuc +33 6 01 43 30 25 flyingcow.diffusion@gmail. com
De Stilte can be contacted by phone from Monday to Friday between 9.30h and 17.30h.
colophon text Jack Timmermans, Jan Baanstra, Pascale van Gils photography Hans Gerritsen, Rosa Meininger, Hennie Heeren design Berry van Gerwen, Breda print Gianotten Printed Media, Tilburg
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