Afstudeervoorstelling: Leisure Life

Friday 16 December 2022, 16:30 - 17:15 hrs.
Academie voor Theater en Dans
Jodenbreestraat 3
1011 NG Amsterdam

Leisure Life
A performative installation on the ethics and aesthetics of queer cohabitation

“Act out your fantasies without believing them to be real” - Larry Mitchell, The Faggot and Their Friends Between Revolutions


By our presence, we shape space. In this project of queer terraforming, walls bend, floors crumble, air liquifies - we follow our desire for cohabitation with humans, more-than-humans, creatures, critters, beasts. Monstrosity permeates the space, Softness enveloping bodies. The monstrous, the hybrid, the queer can be reclaimed as a strategy of empowerment and liberation in sympoiesis. A garden arises, the space becomes alive, and we fill it with care and love and leisure. 

We warmly invite you to inhabit this space with us: come join us in this workshop/performance/installation of leisure. 

The performance will happen on Friday, the 16th of December and Saturday, the 17th of December. On both days two performances will happen (times included below) for we kindly ask you to make a reservation below. 

The space will be open for hanging out with us and the beasts in between the performances on Friday (17:30-20:00) and on Saturday from 12:00 to 22:00. 

Performance times:
Click on the date of your choice and follow the instructions:
Friday 16 December 16:30 uur
Friday 16 December 20:30 uur
Saturday 17 December 16:30 uur
Saturday 17 December 20:30 uur

Team: 
Tea (Tessel) Verschoor (they/them)
Jorien Werkhoven (she/her)*
Charlie Smeets (he/him)
Toni Kritzer (they/them)
in collaboration with: 
Ronja Wijtvliet (she/her)
Dan1dang3r (they/them)
Larissa de Jager (she/they)

*graduation student 

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