Fringe Festival presents / THE SEAMSTRESS [ IN CASE OF EMERGENCY] / a performance by Eva Schippers (DAI, 2010)
3,4,5 September, Trouw gebouw/ De Verdieping, Amsterdam.
Fringe Festival 2012
22:00 - 22:25 THE SEAMSTRESS [IN CASE OF EMERGENCY]
By: Eva Schippers a.k.a. She-Man
An auditive installation performance which is sometimes funny, sometimes loud, sometimes painful, but never the same. In a dark industrial space a group of seamstresses are working, rapidly sewing pieces of fabric together. The small machine lamps only illuminate the sweaty faces and franticly moving hands of the women. Chakk-A-chikk-A-chackk-A-chikk-a-chak-a-chak-chak, the sounds of the sewing machines create an intense atonal rhythm, a sensory experience of ambient noise in the dark. In this setting of producing undefinable textile objects we try to unravel our experiences and create a situation where we can acces our moments of personal and political emergency. Did you ever save someone?
Concept: Eva Schippers //
Play/ content/ research: Sayaka Akitsu // Lot van Gelder // Femke Kempkens // Suzanne Kollen // Yunjoo Kwak // Silvia Ulloa Marquez // Ganna Poppea Veenhuysen // Dina Roussou // Dramaturgy and support: Josine Sibum //
Special thanks: Goleb // Krystian Lada
This project is a collaborative project together with the performers, constructed and shaped through dialogues, meetings and rehearsals, Dialogues and personal ideas revolving around issues as feelings of emergency and politics, how we experience contemporary life and its focus on production and ambitions. You can follow the developments of the project on:
www.she-man.nl This project is part of the Amsterdam Fringe Festival, 2012 Date: 3, 4, 5 September Time: 22:00 Location: Trouw Gebouw/ De Verdieping/ Wibautstraat 127, Amsterdam Tickets: http://www.amsterdamfringefestival.nl/fringe/programma/fringe-2012/the-seamstress.aspx