International Program

On her 10th anniversary Festival CEMENT presents three special international routes . These routes consist of dance and theater performances that were carefully selected to cross language barriers. These performances are back-to-back so you can experience a journey encompassing an evening or even a day's worth of variety and surprise!
Ofcourse the performances shown below can also be visited indivually.

For the price of €15,- you'll be able to visit as much as three shows!!

CEMENT is always suprising, never self-evident.
Take the risk and visit CEMENT.
 

It is not possible to reserve these routes via the internet. We suggest that you either reserve tickets using the UITbalie phone number or at the information desk at the Theater aan het Vrijthof, The adress and phonenumber can be found below.

Theater aan het Vrijthof

Vrijthof 47, 6211 LE Maastricht

043- 3505555

 

The shows that were selected in which language is not an obstacle ;


The international CEMENTRoutes:

Thursday april 2nd
17.00h: White Moment – Karin Netten
20.30h: Doof – Lotte Bos
22.00h: Sometimes it's there & Edits / Proeflokaal Dans – Ulrika Kinn Svensson, Koen de Preter & Klaas DeVos

 

Friday April 3rd

17.00h: White Moment - Karin Netten

19.00h: Lala#4 - Bubbleissues - LaLa

22.00h: exit - Arno Schuitemaker

Saturday April 4th
playing continuously : L.C.Z.Z.T – LaMelis

19.00h: Worm – Tuning People
20.30h: Air Sensible – Rob van Rijswijk en Jeroen Strijbos
22.00h: Chromosomnia – Jelena Kostic

10 year anniversary part at the Timmerfabriek

Sunday april 5th
15.00h: Chromosomnia – Jelena Kostic
17.00h: White Moment – Karin Netten
19.00h: ZONE & ANOMIA – Arno Schuitemaker
 

Helma Melis / LaMelis - L.C.Z.Z.T.

Choreographer Helma Melis and dancer Caroline Lieffers complete their decennium at Festival CEMENT with a surprise. They will do a show during the anniversary-party and on Sunday. The act will involve a tiny little house. The spectators' sensations might range from imprisonment to a sense of security, between safety and uncertainty and anonymity and intimacy. A short but intense experience, lasting up to 10 minutes in which the visitor will be drawn into a different part of reality. Helma Melis describes her brainchild as a living installation. Free entry.

Idea, image and costume Helma Melis
Idea and performance Caroline Liefers Caroline
Music Composition Joost van Dijk
Image Simon Haen
Costume Jolanda Hendriks
photography Marie José Mols

T.r.a.s.h. - Pork in Loop

Pork-in-Loop offers a disturbing keyhole view on four cells where ambiguous, explosive characters are struck by a loss of memory, meaning and the ability to react.
In ten chapters T.r.a.s.h. presents a spatial photo album, a collection of tableaux and images in an assocation on the idea "Man has but one way to go: from original sin through pride to solitude and decay." Based on a concept of variation and metamorphosis, Order and Chaos become exchangeable. In an accumulation of mutual referances, a significance slowly unfolds.
PORK-IN-LOOP sabotages images and statements that approach us through the ether every day. A puddle of moral ruin is overfloating; a relentless supply of images showing thirst for power, abuse of power enters our living rooms. The only reaction imaginable is either a stubborn apathy or a frantic fantasy... Behold: the beast is human!

Concept en choreography Kristel van Issum
Musical composition Arthur van der Kuip en Jeroen Strijbos
Decor design Paul van Weert
Fotography Eric C. Maas

T.r.a.s.h. - To File for Chapter 11

To File For Chapter 11 premiered on November 17, 2006 in Theater De NWE Vorst, Tilburg (NL). One of the concepts is the performer slinged between body and mind. Chaotic and explosive motions while in high tempo the performer's body is carried by energy sound and instinct.
The performers, originating from Brasil, France, Germany, Czechia and Spain, speak their own langguage but also with phonetic sound association.
They interact with the soprano Hannah Morrison's charming voice and the melodies of cellist Jacqueline Hamelink in the classically orientated compositions by Jeroen Strijbos and Arthur van der Kuip, yielding an alienating effect.

Six figures become one another: ‘No man's bodies’.
"Where is she? She's up there and looks upon you with watery eyes!"
The truth galvanizes and deforms into a deception.
Alarmering, confusing situations occur.
An extreme goodbye...

Concept en choreography Kristel van Issum
Musical composition Arthur van der Kuip en Jeroen Strijbos
Decor design Paul van Weert
Fotography Eric C. Maas

Lotte Bos - DOOF

A satellite view of Europe by night was the starting point of DOOF, the graduation show of Lotte Bos. Is there any place that is still truely dark and silent? DOOF instills the need for silence, to be immersed in the moment, to live in the here and now. No expectations. We follow two men and a woman. One man is DJ whose show is on during the night. His words fade into a meaningless black darkness that is the night. The woman in the play only wants to be loved, spread her love and a bit of attention. The third character seems lost in this world.

DOOF is not meant to be anectotal but to be expressive and associative. In DOOF Lotte Bos plays with movement and tranquillity.

Director Lotte Bos
Artists Anne Harbers, Mustafa Duygulu, Krisjan Schelingerhout
Production Het Huis van Bourgondie
Photography via Lotte Bos

Arno Schuitemaker - ZONE / ANOMIA / exit

ZONE
In the dance performance ZONE, Arno Schuitemaker and dancer Isabelle Chaffaud research the perception of and the need for a personal space, which is influenced by a rapidly and constantly changing environment and society.
Concept/choreography: Arno Schuitemaker | Dance: Isabelle Chaffaud | Music: Jürgen de Blonde | Advice light: Ate Jan van Kampen
ZONE was coproduced in behalf of the “first showing” in February 2008 by Theater De NWE Vorst and Danshuis Station Zuid.

ANOMIA
“Lawlessness”, a social condition characterized by rampant individualism and the disintegration of binding social norms. Arno Schuitemaker created a duet (in cooperation with the dancers) inspired by the influences of today’s demanding society on individualism.

Concept/choreography: Arno Schuitemaker | Dance: Lisa Beese, Justin Yep

ANOMIA is created for One Night’s Dance at Dansateliers Rotterdam

exit
In cooperation with three male dancers, Arno Schuitemaker created the performance “exit” based on the increasing need to escape daily reality in these complex times and therewith – at the same time - challenging the magic of theatre.
Concept/choreography : Arno Schuitemaker | Dance: Kim-Jomi Fischer, Ryan Djojokarso, Oscar Padrosa | Music: Jürgen de Blonde
exit is a L’Avventura production and created with financial support by Gemeente Tilburg

LaLa - LaLa #4: Bubbleissues

...a choreography in which Laura and Laure proceed their energetic and humorous style of dance
in water and on air.

Three psychonauts create a space in which to protect themselves from outside threats. In every new situation, they move, adjust or recreate the space. They experience their thoughts, while moving and floating in a startling waterworld. A performance that deceives the senses.

Concept and choreography Laure Dever and Laura Vanborm
Dance Laure Dever, Laura Vanborm, Sepe Baeyens
Coaching Benaouise Ben
Light Design Niels Kingma
Techniek…….Ramon Verhoeven
Costume An Breugelmans
Sound Philip of the hamlet, Lies Vanborn and Steve Slingeneyer Production Productiehuis Brabant
photo Stein Vandenbroucke

Jelena Kostic - Chromosomnia

Chromosomnia revolves around four dancers who are struggling with the possibilities and shortcomings of their sex, juggling with their masculine and feminine identities. They physically and mentally seek out each others boundaries, at times violating them. Choreographer Jelena Kostic is fascinated by odd people with normal problems. Physical, mental and social impotence strikes her eye. Knowing this, it will not amaze you that her choreography isn't centered on the perfect body and the perfect style. Her dancers are almost cinematic in the way actors immerse themselves in their roles, clumsy and imperfectly. Jelena molds the characters in her danceperformance so their dance is rigid and strong one moment and light, playful and slapstick-like the next.

Choreography and concept Jelena Kostic
Dance Jelena Kostic, Kristine Ilum Sorensen, Huub Smit, Marek Zawals ki
Music Jeroen Strijbos and Rob van Rijswijk
Costumes Natasja Leenders
Light Ate Jan van Kampen
Decor Simon Haen
Repetitors Monique Zijp, Ulrika Kin Svenson and Angelique Wilkie
Photo Martijn Kapers

Karin Netten - White Moment

White Moment might be the first of its kind on Festival CEMENT, in the way Karin Netten makes the audience see the world from a clown’s perspective. Cewnter stage are two clowns, a duo, two halves that make a whole.
White moment is lingo for the moment a clown loses him or herself in the moment or the emotion they are portraying and suddenly noticeses they are they center of attention. The seconds just before realizing shame and acting on that is called white moment.
Together, our duo storms the heavens, changes shoes and bursts into song, at times accompanied by ukelele and melodica. The show reaches beyond the physical, playing with the beauty language, spraying the audience with fountains of sentences ranging from Hamlet to Waiting for Godot. White moment depicts the search for happiness and the meaning of life, the desire to interconnect, and the inability to do so. The show runs its course in an environment unnatural to the theaterclown, a marshy plain in the midst of nature. Bring an umbrella.

“Two drifters off to see the World. There's such a lot of world to see.” – Moon River from Mercer / Mancini

Director Karin Netten Games Suzanne Bakker and Ytsje Rosier Decor and costume Maartje Aben Production Foundation Neus & Zo Thanks to Golden Palace and Siri Klein Robenhar photo Evelyne Claeskens

Tuning People - WORM

Self-mockery, willfullness and love for the unexpected barely begin to describe TUNING PEOPLE. A collective, based in Antwerp since 2003 when Wannes Deneer, Karolien Verlinden and Jef van Gestel found each other in their fascination for the theatre of sound, TUNING PEOPLE begin every project as a quest into the world of sound. WORM, TUNING PEOPLE's third project, is a moving instrument, a microcosmos filled with noise, a sound factory, a silent tunnel, een tinkerers garden shed, all at the same time.
Two near invisible characters are completely subsurvient to sound. The audience find itself in a ,constantly re-evaluating their position in that room as the moving “worm” eats up the occupied space and leaves behind sound that is used, reworked and abused.

Concept Wannes Deneer
Implementation Wannes Deneer, Jochem Baelus
Coaching and director Jef Van Gestel
Coaching Peter Vande Meule Broecke
Decor Kristof Morel
Implementation ; a project of 2 factories in collaboration with Vilanela and kc nOna
photography Sven van Baarle

Klaas F. Devos / vIrIon - EditS

vIrIon (pronounced virion) is a research and productiongroup that researches new performanceconcepts, separate from politic and narritive connotations. VirIon combines scientific and historic analysis with conceptual research in a theatre or dance performance. EditS is there first project, realized under the wings of the education Advanced Performance Research and Set Design in Antwerp. Choreographer Klaas F. Devos closed this chapter of research in December 2008. In EditS he attempts to infiltrate the essence of viewing and creating perfomances. EditS has four basic principles; light, body, space and presentation. VirIon approaches the audience in the most personal way possible. As a reaction to the performance each audience member can establish own limits and react accordingly. The pivotal question in Edits is to manipulate or be manipulated.
Shown in combination with “Sometimes it's there”.

Concept virions
Dramatization Joke Heylen Performance Class F. Devos
Text and Sound Class F. Devos, Maarten Buyl
Installation Joris van Dame
Research Advanced Research Performance
With special thanks to ; deSingel, Arts Buda Kortrijk, WP Zimer and Royal Conservatori um Dance
photography by Klaas F. Devos

Ulrika Kinn Svensson en Koen De Preter - Sometimes it's there

Sometimes it's there is a work in progress, which started with the wish to return to the studio performance. Ulrika Kinn Svensson and Koen De Preter, both graduated at the Dance academy in Tilburg in 2002, started from scratch with material that was born out of pure intuition. It evolved into a researchproject into the area between introvert and extrovert. A way to play with affection, melancholy and humor in an intimate setting. The show consists of minimalistic dance, atmospheric music, text and a detailed light design. This piece will lead to a full show, sometime in the future.

In combination with EDITS.
Concept and Perfomance dance Ulrika Kinn Svensson and Koen De Preter l'Avventura Tilburg
Production Credits Stuk Leuven Arts, The Piano Factory Art Workshop Brussels. T.r.a.s.h. Tilburg, Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and Dance Training Sidi Larvi Cherkaoul.

Hendrik Lebon - HELD

HELD (hero) is a film Hendrik Lebon made specially for Cement, under the guidance of DriOns Theatre from Tilburg. It tells the tale of a young man who lives in his trailer at the edge of a forest, combing images with live music.
Hendrik Lebon (Gent, 1980) is a dancer, a choreographer, singer, writer and omnivore all rolled into one. His talents can be seen in fragile artistic productions as well as commercial dinnershows and musicals or an operetta. Every which way you turn, the source remains the same. The same person, the same heart and soul in search of an expressive form. Someone who doesn't attach himself to a single style or genre.

Concept and Directed by Hendrik Lebon
Music Steven Prengels
Live performance Bart de Lausnay
Film Christina Vandekerckhove
Design Hedy Grünewald
Production Drieons

Leonard en Jeroen - Life is Life, live

The idea for Life is Life, live starts with the vast emptyness in the life of contemporary men, a mix of film and live-performance.

Leonard and Jeroen are fascinated by the inconspicuous individual, struggling with the demands of the outside world. The tension between the safety and comfort of home and the world around that is one of their main sources of inspiration.
The audience gets the role of the outside world and Leonard and Jeroen will immerse themselves in their depiction of an expressionless, suffering nobody. It leads to a struggle in which the duo will use every available tool to conform to the outside world. Their goal is to put on a revealing show in which life itself is celebrated.

Idea and performance : Leonard Bedaux and Jeroen Opstelten