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Festival WhyNot #6
Festival WhyNot #6
Sat 28 Oct 2017, De School Amsterdam
14:00 - 23:00
Tickets: € 20 (online) / € 22,50 (door) / Student discount: € 5
Dinner combi-ticket (online only): € 30 / € 25 (Student)
Futuristic fantasy worlds, defying gravity, bodies merging together, humans becoming machines. On Saturday 28 October WhyNot presents their sixth festival edition, this time at De School. One full day, we wander through De School to encounter dance performances, installations, talks, films, great food and (club)music.
In the near future, not you, but an algorithm will determine what emoji best suits your current state of mind. But do we know our bodies well enough to let technology control them? The artists we have invited for this sixth edition investigate what happens when the body disappears or is being replaced.
Dinner in the cafe is also possible without a combi-ticket, but there are a limited amount of meals available. So if you want to eat, just go to the cafe and reserve a seat!
Leave Body Behind
Leave Body Behind
WhyNot x Blank Blank Film
Leave Body Behind is an experimental film project of Dutch dance and performance platform WhyNot and Finnish-Colombian filmstudio Blank Blank Film, with an electronic sound score by Stiletti-Ana. The film will premiere during Cinedans Festival 2017 at EYE Filmmuseum. Four choreographers (Liat Waysbort, Marjolein Vogels, Amos Ben-Tal and Marie Goeminne) each made a scene based on different ways of ‘releasing’ the physical body: death, sexual climax and transcendent rituals. The scenes are melded into one story – a mystical quest for spiritual freedom, caught in movement.
After the screening, at 22:00 in the Foyer at EYE 1, the makers will present an audiovisual installation, and live performances by dancer Amos Ben-Tal and musician Stiletti-Ana, in which the inner world of the dancer is trying to find its way out.
Leave Body Behind is the outcome of a two-week residency in the Tolhuistuin Amsterdam.