BUSHIDŌ - Nina Dumoulin

Dans & ballet

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Existential courage is the courage to be fully who you are. Visible without guarantees or protection, while the world watches and judges. In full glory and at the front. This is a powerful place, but at the same time also the most vulnerable. Everyone can see it. Everyone can find something about it.

To take this place requires a balance between discipline, precision, inner peace and control. These values of bushidō form the inner compass of the dancers. It supports the ability to shape the freedom and choices of one's own existence, even if this entails discomfort, uncertainty and fear.

The performance explores the tension between vulnerability and strength. What happens when you really show yourself, without armor, and still remain standing?