VV | ENERGY - 20Hertz

Name: VV | ENERGY - 20Hertz - Wonkapodia
Start: 2027-01-15T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2027-01-15T21:45:00+01:00
Location: Parktheater Eindhoven

Dans & ballet

No Dutch Required

Imagine an urban show that doesn’t follow a straight line, but takes you into two worlds that complement and strengthen each other. In the double bill VV | ENERGY, 20Hertz, a professional dance company of hearing, hard-of-hearing and deaf dancers, uses a new dance style to take you from stillness to euphoria: from a dreamlike world full of visual intensity to an overwhelming explosion of light, rhythm and energy.

The first piece centres on Visual Vernacular : an expressive storytelling form from Deaf culture that is unknown in the Netherlands. Together with American VV artist Justin Perez, choreographer Sharon Wesseling – herself hard of hearing and nominated for the Innovation Prize of the Nederlandse Dansdagen 2025 – and her performers explore how stories can be told not only with hands and facial expressions, but with whole bodies, space and technology.

The second piece lets the audience experience what it is like to live as a deaf person in a hearing world. It focuses on overstimulation: urban moves, beats, vibrations and festival-style energy flood the auditorium. The audience is immersed in a world that can be both exhilarating and exhausting; a metaphor for the daily reality in which many deaf and hard-of-hearing people hold their own. VV | ENERGY thus breaks with the classic dramatic arc of theatre and shows how stimuli, rhythms and energy can be experienced in different ways, hearing or not. The result is an all-round sensory experience in which dance, visuals, light and sound merge into a new, inclusive language.

Excl. drinks
Please note: this show has been moved from 16 December to 15 January