Going Solo

At a time when keeping distance through covid, ongoing digitalisation and #metoo affairs are the order of the day, The100Hands wants to reflect on the role of touch in the encounter with another. Meanings such as intimacy, connection, care, but also abuse and vulnerability attach to this basic human contact. Touch is about our perception of boundaries and limitation, but how do we still determine what is permissible?

Going Solo invites you to a physical dialogue between a dancer and a life-size real doll. In an intimate, round theatre set-up of little walls and lights, you sit in a private booth close to the playing floor. You are there alone, yet together with other visitors. Watching from the dark, you can answer playful and thought-provoking questions from the dancer with lights or influence what happens physically on the floor yourself. In a game with physical presence and absence, the question arises whether you can (also) look at touch with uninhibited curiosity.

Now that a pandemic has forced us to look for new ways of 'being together', it makes Going Solo palpable how diverse people experience touch, the fluidity of our moral values and how we deal with physical presence.

Become part of this theatre experience and marvel at surreal dance scenes and the reactions of yourself and fellow visitors. For those who wish, there will be an opportunity afterwards to interact with the performer, makers and other visitors.