"We are proud to announce the premiere of Into the Big World on November 4 in STUK, Leuven. The performance is a culmination of the research David Weber-Krebs has been doing for the past years. We would be delighted to see you there. Also exciting is the presentation of Tonight Lights Out! in Athens on November 29, where it will be part of the MIRfestival.

Tour Dates Into the Big World:

4, 5 november - stuk, leuven

10, 11 february - kaaitheater, brussel

27, 28 february - brakke grond, amsterdam

Into the Big World we experience a world where everything is observed, named, categorised and therefore domesticated. We become acquainted with different species, subspecies, families, genera and taxonomies. We get to know all the plants on the Island of Jamaica, the 24 species of short-tailed crabs in the Red Sea and the hermaphrodite aquatic plant known as water-lily. Gradually however knowledge becomes more complex as the world does not longer present itself as a stable unity but instead as a system where everything is connected to everything.

Into the Big World places the eighteenth century encyclopedic project as the seed of Modernity. A worldview where the world was seen as a whole that needed to be known through all its aspects and conquered; a time away from the obscure dogmas of religion and autocracy towards the lights of knowledge, positive sciences and democracy. Where has this worldview brought us? Can we still observe the world from a distance, when we are its main agents of transformation?

première stuk kunstencentrum 4th, november 2014

concept, direction, text david weber-krebs
performance katja dreyer, noha ramadan
sound design peter lenaerts
light design jan fedinger
dramaturgy jonas rutgeerts
dramaturgy and research marie urban
stage lotte betting
advice lars kwakkenbos
production daria bubalo
design publication stéphanie desmadryl
management ingrid vranken
distribution bold

With special thanks to amsterdams funds for the arts, anne breure, niki hadikoesoemo, maximilian haas, sandra van der hel, olivier de laveleye, jan-philipp possmann, jean-baptiste van zeebroeck, fridolin weber-krebs, emily wiliams.

An infinite endings production in co-production with kaaitheater, stuk and wp zimmer. With the support of the flemish community, pianofabriek kunstenwerkplaats and kunstencentrum buda.

download the press-kit about the performance and the research around it."