Festival CEMENT – a headstrong festival
Six exciting days with more than 20 different theatre and dance performances.
Festival CEMENT shows the work of gifted young directors, choreographers and playwrights that matter, with an emphasis on the south of the Netherlands.
Festival CEMENT disturbs and stuns, surprises and entertains.
Festival CEMENT is against the grain, dynamic and is never to be taken for granted.
Festival CEMENT, close to the skin of a new generation of theatre heroes.
Come and have a look and surprise yourself!
Festival CEMENT from March 16. until 21., 2010 at different locations in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, from living room to theatre, with Verkadefabriek as the sparkling heart of the festival.
An overview of the Festival Cement programme. All performances written in bold are suitable for non native Dutch speakers.
3 Ways to master a kiss or a twentyfiveminutes kiss at your neck | Aitana Cordero
Spanish born Aitana Cordero has a professional judoka background and only after that career she threw herself into the art of modern dancing. The centrepiece in her work is the meeting of bodies. Her work is often of a physical nature and doesn’t avoid themes like violence and sexuality. 3 Ways to master a kiss or a twentyfiveminutes kiss at your neck is performed by a large company and takes the kiss as a starting point, using it as a way of searching for the limits of intimacy.
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No I be Yonder | Geert Vaes
Theater
What happens when a classical text is submitted to all different kinds of deconstruction techniques and coincidental operations. Alienation, absurdism, humour and enlightment are at the core of this ritual of a language that may look destroyed but of which the shattered pieces sparkle all the more. No I be Yonder is an expressive, musical performance where kitchen blenders an paper shredders create text.
Malpertuis
This is my father – The promised feast, part III | Ilay den Boer
This is my father is the third performance of the Dutch/Israeli playwright Ilay den Boer in the series The promised feast. In this series Ilay scrutinizes himself, his family and therewith the state of Israël and the Jewish history. Ilay looks though the eyes of his father at the prominent role that the Netherlands play in Israel. Ilay questions his father, who as a Dutchman lived in Israel for years and fathered his son there.
Het Huis van Bourgondië
Sometimes it’s there | Koen De Preter & Ulrika Kinn Svensson
Dance
Sometimes it’s there is an intimate performance of two young choreographers and friends, originating from a need to work together. This atmospheric piece is a search for subtle shades of meaning in movement, words, sound and light. The performers play with emotion and humour, introversion and extraversion and create a hypnotising and heart-warming dance performance.
Theater De NWE Vorst
Mundschutz | Annechien de Vocht
Theatre
Mundschutz (mouth protection) is a first staging of the theatrical text of the Swiss author and director Sabine Harbeke. A text which makes man’s loneliness palpable. About wandering souls who seek guidance in this elusive world. Souls trying with of all of their might to get a grip on life, but having no idea how.
Het Huis van Bourgondië │ Festival Verse Waar
SAFE | Arno Schuitemaker
Dance
SAFE zooms in on how feelings of fear and vulnerability in our society are influenced and manipulated. Three dancers, each with their own strong personality, moving into the tension of controlling and letting go, influencing and being influenced. Powerful dance, strong personalities and unexpected twists make the performance exciting and intriguing.
Arno Schuitemaker won in 2009 at the Festival CEMENT the Dioraphte Incentive.
Productiehuis Brabant | Theater De NWE Vorst
The rustle of trees | Thomas Boer
Theatre
original title: Het geruis van bomen
One day a man commits a terrible and inexplicable act. A woman just survives. In one blow their lives are forever linked. The woman tries to get grip on the event, her own life and the world around her. A play about the human need to understand inhuman acts.
Werkplaats L’Avventura
Remember, you were there | Bloem van de Natie
Theatre
original title: Weet u nog, u was erbij
Remember, you were there is a physical, mimic and musical performance about the importance of the fall. Martijn Crins, Huub Smit and Twan van Bragt give credit to falling, with absurd humour. The play is sparkling with fun.
Thanks to Theaterfestival Boulevard
L'Intrus fremdkörper 2# | Het Geluid
Theatre
How do we handle the strangeness in our live? A search for the strangest and most trusted in our body, our own heart. An investigation that leads us along cardiologists, cardiac patients, donor coordinators, dejected asylum seekers, gut feelings and a live playing band of Roma gypsies. L'Intrus fremdkörper 2# of the makers Gable Roelofsen and Romy Roelofsen is an invitation to an intellectual stimulus, a belch in the abdomen and who knows what will penetrate your heart to the melancholy sound of Balkan party music.
Theatercollectief Het Geluid
Me. | Jeek ten Velden
Theatre
original title: Ik.
Nobody should imagine that he has to say something about me. Everybody is equal! Fantastic! We all are so wonderfully the same. So I do what I want. And I want everything and I don’t stop before I have got everything. Me. the presentation at the graduation of Jeek ten Velde, is a lively performance about three young people within the crowds and the anonymity of our time searching for immortality.
Het Huis van Bourgondië │Toneelacademie Maastricht
TEXEL TEXAS | Michiel de Regt & Jibbe Willems
Theatre
TEXEL TEXAS is a poetic performance that takes place around a border post in a dusty desert. Here, at this border post, the waiting get lost and wander, through their relationship, their own head, through the noise of the television or the dust from the storm. They wander searching for the crack where liberation lies behind. A battle in releasing, by characters so trapped that only by ripping they can liberate themselves.
Het Huis van Bourgondië │Theater Bellevue
Fine snow | Jorieke Abbing & Jef Van gestel
Theatre/children theatre 8 +
original title: Beste sneeuw
Fine snow accurately tells the moving story of the eight year old girl Pomme which must try to save herself in the vacuum of the divorce of her parents. Father is thrown out the house by mother and ‘drinks a hole in the day’ while mother is lost in a shadowy affair with a Russian. In her attempt to save the marriage Pomme takes more and more drastic measures. With this text Jorieke Abbing in 2008 won the Van der Vies Award. Directed by the versatile Jef Van Gestel.
Het Lab Utrecht
That doesn’t happen with us | Lis en Imke
Theatre/children theatre 10 +
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Lis en Imke
A performance for children by Imke Donkers and Lis de Kort for everyone from ten years and older who wants to believe in himself. Here are no wolves. Planes don’t crash here. There will never be war here. That doesn’t happen with us. A warm and embracing performance about grief and the adventure of having to move. The girls are standing in the middle of a fraction. Father and mother are separated and their lives are in boxes.
Thanks to Theaterfestival Boulevard
Sacred Legends | Leen Braspenning
Theatre
original title: Heiligenlegendes
Sacred Legends was last year specially for this occasion translated from Swedish. Majgull Axelsson describes the story of three generations of women who always too early and not planned bring a daughter into the world. In a second similar world social icons try to understand from their own perspective and values why history always repeats itself. Why does every ideal ultimately go bankrupt? Leen Braspenning is not satisfied with just one story and applies with this first staging for a grand production. Leen Braspenning won in 2008 at the Festival CEMENT Dioraphte Incentive.
Productiehuis Brabant │ Festival Verse Waar
Under My skin | Lenneke Maas
Theatre
On a huge video screen we see the back of a girl, an actress, she cleans her teeth, shaves her armpits, looks in the mirror. Suddenly the director as a catwoman creeps through the video projection and also looks in the mirror. The startling opening image immediately lays bare what the performance is about. How small can you be in life? Size of personality, thoughts, plans ... The text Marcel Lenssen wrote especially for these players is personal, direct and recognizable.
Productiehuis Brabant
PATIO | Rachel Zweije & Joris van Oosterwijk
Theatre
Patio is a visual location performance with few words. Together with Joris van Oosterwijk Rachel makes it a performance about a group of people, young and old in a protected environment. But what happens when all protection disappears? If there are no walls anymore .... Patio is a preliminary study for the summer of 2010.
Productiehuis Brabant │Over ’t IJ festival │Theaterfestival Boulevard
MTG BLONT plays without gravity one wears nothing
Theatre
original title: MTG BLONT speelt zonder zwaartekracht draagt men niets
Floor van Leeuwen en Bas van Rijnsoever
The young mime theatre group MTG Blont is looking for authenticity. Act but do not play. Sometimes directly, sometimes through the imagination. They do not proclaim truth, but attempt to create something true.
Stichting Nieuwe Helden │ Theaterwerkplaats Ins Blau
Fast Car | Renske van den Broek
Theatre
Fast Car is a monologue. And a drum solo. Music Theater, but also a stand-up show. In any event, Fast Car is fast, exhilarating and crazy. On the edge of your seat please. Because it’s tearing past you with 280 kilometres per hour. Fast Car is based on the case-history ‘Witty ticcy Ray’ by Oliver Sacks. The text was written by Rogier Schippers.
Theater Plaza Futura
Mourningbox l Lala#4: the pictures / film 2 | LaLa
Dance/Film
Mourningbox by Laure Dever is a depressing and surreal dance solo.. A small mourning monument about a woman bearing all the suffering of the world on her shoulders. She is trapped in a perpetual death scene, which occurs a in more than life-size cardboard box.
The dance films of Laura Vanborm are placed in a installation. Both films are a study of intense physical freedom.
l’Avventura l Pianofabriek l Wpzimmer l CCBerchem l Productiehuis Brabant l CAMPO
Turbulence
Theatre/Dance
Go on an adventure through the city, in unorthodox locations you may just happen to be that person who saw that one super talent first. For anyone who wants to be surprised and have a look at the future. Students of Fontys Hogeschool of the Arts/Drama and Dance Department, and Theater Academy Maastricht show their finest pearls in special places in the city.
Note: limited seats available! Check the website for more information.
In cooperation with Toneelacademie Maastricht en Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
Dioraphte Incentive
Festival CEMENT does not want to overlook a good idea and therefore throws its doors wide open. All young and novice southern theatre makers, choreographers and writers are asked to submit their ideas, concepts and plans to send in. And the best concept will win the Dioraphte Incentive. The award consists of € 7500, - and an invitation to the maker to show the progress / realization of his concept at Festival CEMENT 2011. The eight elected concepts are presented to the public on Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 March at 12 pm.
The winner will be announced on Thursday 18 March in the Groote Sociëteit.
Useful information
CEMENT festival from 16 until 21 March, 2010.
Tickets:
Day passes. Put together an ideal festival evening for yourself. Cost will not be an obstacle! At least three shows for only € 15,- and € 12.50 presale / CJP € 12,50 and presale € 10,-
Week Passes. All 6 days for only € 40, - and € 35 presale, / CJP € 35, - presale and € 30, -
Open bookings for youth theatre performances only € 7.50
Presale runs from February 8 to March 8.
Tickets, food, drink and dancing in the heart of festival Verkadefabriek, Boschdijkstraat 45,
’s-Hertogenbosch,
www.verkadefabriek.nl
More information about the program, exact times and ticket www.festivalcement.nl
© February 2010 edition of Festival CEMENT
Team Festival CEMENT 2010:
Leonie Clement, Ricky Middendorp, Annemarie Roefs, Freija Langendijk, Henk Dielesen, Tom Brooijmans. Interns: Rick Hooijberg, Petra Wolf, Irene Tielemans
Graphic design/photograpy: SintLucas, Boxtel
Design advice: StudioDS, Nijmegen
Website: Gilaworks, Tilburg
Thanks to
Festival 2010 is made possible with support of Provincie Noord-Brabant, Gemeente ’s-Hertogenbosch, Provincie Limburg, Gemeente Maastricht, NFPK+, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting Dioraphte, ENCI BV, Cement&BetonCentrum, OCW, Productiehuis Brabant and Het Huis van Bourgondië.
Festival Cement also thanks Verkadefabriek, SintLucas, BIM Vastgoed, Talent Factory, DoeNederland, TM vakblad voor podiumkunsten, Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Toneelacademie Maastricht, for their highly appreciated support.
Program may be subject to changes.