TEDX Amsterdam, 10 year anniversary | Stichting Nieuwe Helden | 2018
For the 10th edition of TEDxAmsterdam Stichting Nieuwe Helden has created a dramaturgic red line throughout the whole program. From beginning till end. To make the visitors part of an overall story. Every part of the day did not stand on its own but was a part of a bigger picture.
That bigger picture is formed around this years theme ‘The Big X’. The Big X stood for several things. The birthday of TEDx, 10 years of inspiring talks and the city of Amsterdam. The city we love and get inspired by. But the X also stood for something else, which brought everything together. The Big X was about the big unknown. About answers we need to big furture related questions. In the complex times we are living in, celebrating an event like TEDx was not only about naming milestones, but also about looking forward. What does Amsterdam look like in another 10 years? What are the challenges and opportunities? There are so many questions and there are even more answers.
The future is a big puzzle. But the question is who has the answers?
We all have.
We are all part of the future.
We all are a piece in the big puzzle.
November 2018
Direction & Presentation Lucas De Man
Directing Assistant Jasper van den Berg
Scenography Pascal Leboucq en Manon Veldhuis
Produced by Stichting Nieuwe Helden
Production leader Emiel van Rietveld
Website Stichting Nieuwe Helden
Website TEDX
That bigger picture is formed around this years theme ‘The Big X’. The Big X stood for several things. The birthday of TEDx, 10 years of inspiring talks and the city of Amsterdam. The city we love and get inspired by. But the X also stood for something else, which brought everything together. The Big X was about the big unknown. About answers we need to big furture related questions. In the complex times we are living in, celebrating an event like TEDx was not only about naming milestones, but also about looking forward. What does Amsterdam look like in another 10 years? What are the challenges and opportunities? There are so many questions and there are even more answers.
The future is a big puzzle. But the question is who has the answers?
We all have.
We are all part of the future.
We all are a piece in the big puzzle.
November 2018
Direction & Presentation Lucas De Man
Directing Assistant Jasper van den Berg
Scenography Pascal Leboucq en Manon Veldhuis
Produced by Stichting Nieuwe Helden
Production leader Emiel van Rietveld
Website Stichting Nieuwe Helden
Website TEDX
Voice of Void | Sanne Clifford & Manon Veldhuis | 2019
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Pictures by Sjoerd Derine
Pictures by Keith Montgomery
Are we aligned with our surroundings or did we irreversibly distance ourselves from them?
Inspired by the different paces of nature versus urban environments and the feeling of insignificance a grand landscape can evoke. Voice of Void zooms in on the influences of our surroundings in daily life and how it effects our inner world.
This visual choreography / dancing installation by Sanne Clifford (choreographer) and Manon Veldhuis (scenographer) highlights the contrast between these two environments we live in. They can provide stability or reason to adjust. The dancers move and respond to the rhythms of this changing landscape. Experience a mesmerizing game of different paces and unfolding patterns through movement, breath and an ongoing changing scenery.
Concept Sanne Clifford & Manon Veldhuis
Choreography Sanne Clifford
Scenography Manon Veldhuis
Music Amir Swaab
Dance & co-creation Fabiana Carchesio, Fernanda Gonzalez Morales, Candela Murillo & Amber Smits/Sanne Clifford.
Try-outs:
7 June - Schemerstad 2019 (10 minute version)
8 June - Schemerstad 219 (10 minute version)
Performances:
30 July - Boslab 2019, Amsterdams Bostheater | Premiere
31 July till 3 August - Boslab 2019 | Amsterdams Bostheater
6 August till 10 August - Boslab 2019 | Amsterdam Bostheater
11 October - CC Amstel | Double bill i.c.w. Sandra Kramerova
This performance is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).
Website Sanne Clifford
Website Bostheater
Inspired by the different paces of nature versus urban environments and the feeling of insignificance a grand landscape can evoke. Voice of Void zooms in on the influences of our surroundings in daily life and how it effects our inner world.
This visual choreography / dancing installation by Sanne Clifford (choreographer) and Manon Veldhuis (scenographer) highlights the contrast between these two environments we live in. They can provide stability or reason to adjust. The dancers move and respond to the rhythms of this changing landscape. Experience a mesmerizing game of different paces and unfolding patterns through movement, breath and an ongoing changing scenery.
Concept Sanne Clifford & Manon Veldhuis
Choreography Sanne Clifford
Scenography Manon Veldhuis
Music Amir Swaab
Dance & co-creation Fabiana Carchesio, Fernanda Gonzalez Morales, Candela Murillo & Amber Smits/Sanne Clifford.
Try-outs:
7 June - Schemerstad 2019 (10 minute version)
8 June - Schemerstad 219 (10 minute version)
Performances:
30 July - Boslab 2019, Amsterdams Bostheater | Premiere
31 July till 3 August - Boslab 2019 | Amsterdams Bostheater
6 August till 10 August - Boslab 2019 | Amsterdam Bostheater
11 October - CC Amstel | Double bill i.c.w. Sandra Kramerova
This performance is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).
Website Sanne Clifford
Website Bostheater
Dan liever de lucht in | ENSO Physical Theater | 2018
Pictures by Mark Kleijnen and Manon Veldhuis
'Dan liever de lucht in' shows us the wandering human in a constantly accelerating society, in which concepts as "success" and "musts" work in a suffocating way. The human as a moribund fish on land, gasping for air. In search of love, friendship, freedom and air.
In 6 parts you follow five performers in that search. Grabbe by the throat, through reflection and humor to ultimate peace. And if that doesn't work: we rather disappear into thin air.
May 2018
Concept and Directing Kevin Ruijters en Karlijn Vlug
Performers Dara Farrelly, Luka Krijbolder, Joris van Laak, Levien Reedijk, Hannah Zwaans
Music Bas Bertrand en Daan Lutgendorff
Scenography Manon Veldhuis
Grafic Design Jeroen Klomp
Thanks to Makersfonds, CultuurBSO Monopole
Website ENSO
In 6 parts you follow five performers in that search. Grabbe by the throat, through reflection and humor to ultimate peace. And if that doesn't work: we rather disappear into thin air.
May 2018
Concept and Directing Kevin Ruijters en Karlijn Vlug
Performers Dara Farrelly, Luka Krijbolder, Joris van Laak, Levien Reedijk, Hannah Zwaans
Music Bas Bertrand en Daan Lutgendorff
Scenography Manon Veldhuis
Grafic Design Jeroen Klomp
Thanks to Makersfonds, CultuurBSO Monopole
Website ENSO
Unité Modèl | Théâtre La Seizième | 2017
Unité Modèl is a parody of the real estate market and everything superficial it wants to sell you. At once fanciful, well-paced and caustic, it’s a stage object that is trying too hard, like these representatives whose beyond-perfect smiles are not quite real.
17 October 2017 — 28 August 2018
Produced by Théâtre la Seizième
Text Guillaume Corbeil
Directed by Philippe Cyr
Cast Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin, Emilie Leclerc
Lighting Design Itai Erdal
Scenography and Costumes Manon Veldhuis
Music Malcom Dow
Video Cande Andrade
Production leader Ashley Noyes
Surtitles translation Anita Rochon
With the participation of Finn Lefebvre-Gnam
17 October 2017 — 28 August 2018
Produced by Théâtre la Seizième
Text Guillaume Corbeil
Directed by Philippe Cyr
Cast Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin, Emilie Leclerc
Lighting Design Itai Erdal
Scenography and Costumes Manon Veldhuis
Music Malcom Dow
Video Cande Andrade
Production leader Ashley Noyes
Surtitles translation Anita Rochon
With the participation of Finn Lefebvre-Gnam
Husbands and Wives | Internationaal Theater Amsterdam | 2017
Woody Allen wrote and directed Husbands and wives in the period just before his own relationship with Mia Farrow failed. Scenes in which the story develops are alternated by documentary scenes in which the characters are interviewed separately and look back on what happened. A fight between the urge for freedom and the need for security breaks loose. Husbands and wives confronts us with questions we all ask ourselves at some point. When is a relationship over? And how to go on? Do you cling to what you have or be open to something completely new? How well do you know yourself, your partner, your friends? Can you be lonelier in a relationship than when you are alone?
At a certain point, Gabe says: Life is not a Hollywood film. It’s a foreign film. It is not a coincidence that Husbands and wives is in many ways similar to Scenes from a marriage, the big divorce story by Woody Allen’s mentor and admired example Ingmar Bergman.
May 2016
Produced by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Text Woody Allen
Directed by Simon Stone
Cast Helene Devos, Marieke Heebink, Robert de Hoog, Ramsey Nasr, Halina Reijn, Gijs Scholten van Aschat
Translation Rik van den Bos
Dramaturge Peter Van Kraaij
Scenographer Bob Cousins
Light design Bernie van Velzen
Music Stefan Gregory
Costumes An D'Huys
Assistant director Olivier Diepenhorst
Assistant scenography Manon Veldhuis
At a certain point, Gabe says: Life is not a Hollywood film. It’s a foreign film. It is not a coincidence that Husbands and wives is in many ways similar to Scenes from a marriage, the big divorce story by Woody Allen’s mentor and admired example Ingmar Bergman.
May 2016
Produced by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Text Woody Allen
Directed by Simon Stone
Cast Helene Devos, Marieke Heebink, Robert de Hoog, Ramsey Nasr, Halina Reijn, Gijs Scholten van Aschat
Translation Rik van den Bos
Dramaturge Peter Van Kraaij
Scenographer Bob Cousins
Light design Bernie van Velzen
Music Stefan Gregory
Costumes An D'Huys
Assistant director Olivier Diepenhorst
Assistant scenography Manon Veldhuis