ECD X WhyNot X Connor Schumacher:
Because. We Pretend /
We should

A collaboration between 3rd year students and choreographer Connor Schumacher, coproduced by WhyNot.

Date: Thu 9 & Fri 10 April
Time: 19:30 - 20:15
Venue: At the artwork of André Volten - Amstel 1, (Waterlooplein)
at the square in front of stadhuis-Muziektheater
Free entrance

70 hours of dancing together. Balancing choreographic and improvisational scores. A comment on energy, togetherness, and position through musicality and lyrical music performed in public space. What is mine? What belongs to me? My productivity, my motives, my morals, the changes in my life? Do they belong to me?

CREDITS

Choreography/Direction: Connor Schumacher
Made in collaboration with ECD3
Design concept: Elsemarijn Bruijs
Video design: Jeisson Drenth
Rehearsal Assistant: Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito
Production: Michael Scerbo (WhyNot), Dorothea Sinnema (ATD)
Venue managers: Juliette Moonen, Camille Pas
Technique at Venue: Anton van Wolfswinkel

Connor Schumacher

Connor Schumacher is founder and artistic leader of Stichting ARK. Connor has developed as a dance artist under the wings of Dansateliers. Here he made The Fool (2015), Asset, Liability and Equity (2016), Exhibition (2017), OK Future (2017), THREESOME (2019) and Funny Soft Happy & The Opposite (2019). Establishing ARK in 2020 he continued producing Pilot PC (2021), Club INC with Theater Babel Rotterdam (2023), and Raging Against Various Elements (2024) which was nominated for most impressive dance production of 2024 by the VSCD jury & Festival Nederlandse Dansdagen.

Connor makes performances and social choreographic works for theaters, museums, festivals, and clubs. All activities are situated in different and overlapping contexts, where the higher goal is to get people moving, physically and mentally.