Frog Experiments: Sunken Works

On 12 December, Theatre Kikker will take on the experiment and present makers in the middle of their creative process. For one evening, several makers will show what they are working on and ask for feedback from the audience. An intimate and surprising evening and a peek into the Kikker kitchen. With this edition: Watching and being watched in two diverse work-in-progress performances: Sunken Works / who makes the rules By Ghaliah Conroy and Holding Clouds is Futile Jesse van Delft.

Ghaliah Conroy - Sunken Works / who makes the rules

Under the title Sunken Works Ghaliah Conroy is working on a series of works around the theme of the Human Zoo, the 'exotic' exhibitions that took place in Europe well into the 20th century, where people of colour were displayed behind a fence. What effect does this history have on black women today?

After the dance film Sunken Works / DON'T BITE (a co-production between DansBrabant and Nederlandse Dansdagen), Ghaliah delves even deeper into the theme of 'looking and being looked at'. How do you relate to a gaze that reduces you to a stereotype? And how do you reclaim your autonomy?
Sunken Works / who makes the rules is an intimate live duet between a camera and a black body - at the same time, who makes the rules is a game between audience and performer. Who looks at whom, who decides, who follows... Anger, impotence and affection alternate in rapid succession. Sunken Works / who makes the rules is at times uncomfortable, at all times stimulating and personal.

Concept, choreography and performance: Ghaliah Conroy
Camera and execution: CJ Roxas
co-production by Ghaliah Conroy with DansBrabant
With support from: Makers Fund Tilburg, the Culture Fund North Brabant

Jesse van Delft - Holding Clouds is Futile

At Holding Clouds is Futile theatre maker Jesse van Delft explores how a geriso-printed booklet can invite someone to be both performer and spectator. This way, you can experience a performance anywhere and at any time. In this first edition, you are challenged to see yourself as a cloud in six different 'acts'. The performance in print is inspired by the exploration of the 'self' through the lens of the Buddhist Middle Way tradition. Frog Experiments is the first presentation of the performance in print.