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Production house PLEIN THEATER


VRIJE VLOER Festival in het Plein Theater

A stage on which to create and participate in theatre, dance and writing.
7th through 17th of November, 2019 

A stage for Co/creation holds endless variety and can’t be restricted.  Co/creation crosses boundaries and can’t be labelled. 
During this first VRIJE VLOER Festival four makers, all with international experience in making staged works with non-professionals, will present the results of  six month work processes.  

Each maker has different expertise and ways of working. Each allows  people to excel on stage while presenting a range of  personal and social themes. These makers have personal experiences that mean they know what it’s like to be an outsider and/or to ‘represent’ a minority. They know what it 
takes to pursue authentic ways of working. Their workshops/trajectories were places where they worked with ‘normal people’ who are exceptional in their drive to make art. We call these people the ‘Meemakers’, or Co-creators. The Co-creators are not professional artists but they have the guts to step, passionately, into the spotlight. because the personal and the artistic mix organically, the interactions between the makers and co-creators are beautiful and vulnerable. 

The Plein Theatre believes that great art is not dependent on the professional status of the creator, and as a result we make no distinction between the makers and co-creators. During the Festival co-creators will mingle with the professional musicians of the NIEUWE NOTEN AMSTERDAM (Fie Schouten and Aspasia Nasopoulou programmers) and the professional dancers from SHAILESH BAHORIAN and VINCENT VERBURG. (check our website: https://www.plein-theater.nl for our complete program.) The Festival will also feature TALKS: Conversations with audience, makers, and co-creators, hosted by MIREILLE BRUIN. 

Makers: EDIT KALDOR (Theatre), GITA HACHAM (writing), VINCENT VERBURG (dance) DAYNA MARTINEZ MORALES (Artist in residence 2019).  

The makers

Edit Kaldor (Hungary) will set up an artistic laboratory with participants from Amsterdam East who have no previous theatrical experience. There will be workshops, during which the participants will be coached in the development and realisation of theatrical encounters based on their own experiences. Edit works with amateur performers and, in her work, merges reality and fiction in a special way. She integrates various digital media in a refined yet straightforward manner. Kaldor lives in Amsterdam and works all over the world. Her productions, which expand the boundaries of theatrical convention, have been presented in more than 30 countries in Europa, North and South America, Asia and North Africa in recent years.

Gita Hacham (Sweden/Netherlands) is writer, director and visual artist. As a result of her extensive education – from Film academy to Das Arts (Master Theatre) – she has developed into an interdisciplinary maker. She writes plays and scenarios, and directs her own work as well as the work of others. In her Masterclass, Hacham encourages the participants to share their own stories from Amsterdam East. She will also give a Masterclasses “oral story telling”, playwriting trainings, performances, and video lessons.

Dayna Martines Morales (Bolivia) Dayna’s points of departure are the traditional dances of her homeland Bolivia. She seeks connections between old and new culture, identity, ritual and transformation. During these evenings, PLEIN THEATER aims to make dance more accessible. Dayna Martines Morales and Vincent Verburg of ‘Movementalist’ invite people who transcend interdisciplinary dance style and discipline to get together and work on a performance as a group. These are recurrent evenings for a curious audience, who wish to participate in the creation of a new and exciting form of interdisciplinary collaboration between experienced performers, innovative makers and neighbourhood residents who also contribute dance experience from their own culture