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The naked truth comes to light

Family show 20 min.

What starts as a date spirals out of control when love eats your heart out, bite by bite. A hilarious exploration of the hidden inner self.

Performances:

20 and 21 september 11:00
Internationaal Microfestival Dordrecht

26 november 15:00
OCCII Kinderpret
Amsterdam

A fairy tale visualized with light and live music inspired by Wagner

45/55 min. – no language – all ages

A lost bicycle bell searches for its bicycle through fairytale-like but also dangerous places full of strange creatures and unexpected encounters. A touching adventure full of cheerful but also precarious moments. Whether his search will be rewarded remains exciting until the end.

In a musical arrangement by Thomas Geerts

Performances with:

FRYSK JEUGD FANFARE ORKEST
22 march 2025 • THEATER DE KOORNBEURS • Franeker

DE TRAMHARMONIE
1 february 2026 • Centrale OBA • Amsterdam

FANFARE WILHELMINA
28 march 2026 • D’n Anloôp • Hoogeloon

KONINKLIJKE MUZIEKVERENIGING APOLLO DE WIJK
17 october 2026 • Puppet International • Meppel

MUZIEKVERENIGING DDS AARLANDERVEEN
14 november 2026 • Alphen aan de Rijn

KONINKLIJKE STEDELIJKE HARMONIE HULST
29 november 2026 • Theaterzaal Den Dullaert • Hulst

Light-art-concert with violin solo

A half moon shines from Andalusia via North Africa and Turkey to the Balkans. Its sound rays penetrate into Western Europe.

Janneke van Prooijen – violin solo
Willem Boogman – composition Enjoyment VIII

Performances:

8 Juni 2025 – 15:00
Premiére: KlankkleurFestival – Uilenburgersjoel – Amsterdam

An emotional journey about love at first… and second sight!

Light-art-concert with organ, vocals, percussion and strings

Music:
Kevin Volans – Régis Campo – Meredith Monk – Jacob TV – Mauricio Kagel – Kurt Schwitters – Georg F Händel – David Lang

“As an audience, you can only surrender to this seamless combination of image and music. A performance that passes by as if one is leafing through a collection of poetry. With Garden of Delight, the hope is kept alive that desire, including the despair that is part of it, may always remain a source of joy in life, and that beauty indeed has the ability to offer comfort.

Lichtbende moves heaven and earth in a lampshade

20 or 45 min.- no language – all ages – for small venues – with live accordion

Two endearing flies meet each other in the light of a table lamp. They become entangled in the most bizarre situations where all sight of reality disappears.