RE: Set
MOROCCO & NLs, 2022-24
Form: solo played in a circular audience setting, designed for intimate spaces
Theme: identity, cultural adaptation
Presented (at various stages of development) at: Stukafest, Delft Fringe Festival, Goethe Institute Cairo, Les Étoiles du Détroit (Tanger, Morocco), Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland,
Makan Cairo, PAS Festival Maastricht
Duration: 30 min
Choreography and performance: Ilja Geelen
Music: Nabil Dourgal, Xavier Geerman, Minka Geelen
(based on sound research by Ilja Geelen)
Cover photo: Yassine Abouhamid
Supported by DansBrabant, Makershuis Tilburg, EUNIC Egypt
RE:Set
Form: solo played in a circular audience setting, designed for intimate spaces
Theme: identity, migration, cultural adaptation
Presented (at various stages of development) at: Stukafest, Delft Fringe Festival, Goethe Institute Cairo, Les Étoiles du Détroit (Tanger, Morocco), Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland, Makan Cairo, PAS Festival Maastricht
Duration: 30 min
Choreography and performance: Ilja Geelen
Music: Nabil Dourgal, Xavier Geerman, Minka Geelen
(based on sound research by Ilja Geelen)
Supported by DansBrabant, Makershuis Tilburg, EUNIC Egypt
RE:Set
RE:Set is the movement diary of someone who finds home in many places. It’s about the loneliness, the dissociation and the joy of being a stranger. About shifting between different places, different realities and different modes of existing. From fully immersed to distantly observing. Transformation through repetition. This solo is an anxious attempt to avoid sensory numbness, and a reminder to play.