Hardkoor - Theater Utrecht | Nederlands Kamerkoor

A single mother and artist withdraws a year from public life prior to her 40th birthday. From the standstill of her burnout (which she sees as a crisis of the entire system, both in physical, mental and spiritual terms), she takes a fight against the pressure of time, the images she tries to escape by thereThrough a personal exhaustion in language, music and movement she makes his way to a shameless existence, in which the never-ending search for confirmation takes place for radical self-love and a not-so-so-boring balance.

Under the motto “Never Waste A Good Crisis”, she, in the presence of the public, settles with the personal and social blind spots that have brought her into this state: her uncertainty as a single mother, the pressure of social

The whole takes place in a decor, described by designer Boris Acket as a "brutal techno temple": a modular installation of light and sound technology, with a special role for the voices of the Dutch Chamber Choir. Acket is a contemporary artist, composer and director, specialized in building multidisciplinary systems. The costumes consist of high fashion loungewear, designed by Maison the Faux, a creative studio that presents itself as a grand fashion house and of which the work is also determined by a multidisciplinary approach.

The combination between the painful honesty of the

hard choir in the media
"Shame and self-criticism compete with system criticism and anger in Velissarious beautiful, very musical and rhythmically due to hair-interpreted lyrics and already

• English and Dutch spoken, with English surtitles
• In this show there is hard sound and flashy light and a strobe is used