The Eye, The Other 2001
Four acquaintances have left their material belongings to withdraw to a country house on the African continent. In fear for a world crisis because of the millennium bug, they have moved to a Third World country. Confronted with each other day and night, they discover that their mutual fear is based on doubts about themselves and how they deal with life. Their personal confessions turn into a psychological dissection table, in which each tries to legitimate one's own behavior. The world outside, a supposed safe heaven, becomes focus of their frustration in a mixture of missionary and racist reflections.
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Euroblues 1998
Euroblues is a dance performance about the imaginary as well as the imposed concept of Europe. Feri de Geus reflects on Europe's situation by using the different cultural backgrounds of the performers. As their language and body are used as text material, borders disappear and individuals shift their dreams drifting into ever growing blurred structures and institutions. How do we react to this alienation? Are we still real or have we become our own icon?
Reviews
Euroblues
"...Through Internet tunnels they reached (...) Europe, the land of virtual freedom where nor geographic nor moral boundaries no longer exist and all differences have disappeared..."
"For more than an hour they attest to their 'liberating virtuality'. In short: Euroblues is a superbly cynical production..."
..."The result is a heart rendering blues that goes to the bone that at times sets you off in a fit of laughter, but is delightful to the eye at the same time..."
Trouw, Eva van Schaik, 26 March 98
"...Euroblues, that sense of being alienated from one's own culture and dissolving into a grey mass, hopefully is a passing fin-de-siècle feeling. In the hands of the director fading Europe is a disastrous decorum. At the end, as a deus ex machina Zeus appears. In the figure of a polish actor the Supreme Being tells us what happened to his former mistress Europe: 'Suddenly she was gone. In the crowd I sometimes believe I see her. She smiles at me, but it is a frozen smile, an advertisement on a billboard'..."
NRC Handelsblad, Floris Brester, 26 March 98
The Eye, The Other
"...It starts with ecstatic African percussion, dance and singing - stylistic devices that give perspective to the short personal stories that each of the performers displays. By doing so they claim to be connected to African culture, more bad than good obviously, since they are more occupied with their personal well-being and their alleged openness to others. 'Het Oog en de Ander' rests on its biting sarcasm through which the group members outplay all the deceitful racist prejudices. The staging is direct without distractions. It builds on a direct and lively visualization of the little stories told, which is a typical characteristic of Dutch dance-theatre. At the end, one of the performers paints a skeleton with black paint on his white torso, hanging out of a wheelchair..."
Gerald Siegmund, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29 May 2000
"...Through Internet tunnels they reached (...) Europe, the land of virtual freedom where nor geographic nor moral boundaries no longer exist and all differences have disappeared..."
"For more than an hour they attest to their 'liberating virtuality'. In short: Euroblues is a superbly cynical production..."
..."The result is a heart rendering blues that goes to the bone that at times sets you off in a fit of laughter, but is delightful to the eye at the same time..."
Trouw, Eva van Schaik, 26 March 98
"...Euroblues, that sense of being alienated from one's own culture and dissolving into a grey mass, hopefully is a passing fin-de-siècle feeling. In the hands of the director fading Europe is a disastrous decorum. At the end, as a deus ex machina Zeus appears. In the figure of a polish actor the Supreme Being tells us what happened to his former mistress Europe: 'Suddenly she was gone. In the crowd I sometimes believe I see her. She smiles at me, but it is a frozen smile, an advertisement on a billboard'..."
NRC Handelsblad, Floris Brester, 26 March 98
The Eye, The Other
"...It starts with ecstatic African percussion, dance and singing - stylistic devices that give perspective to the short personal stories that each of the performers displays. By doing so they claim to be connected to African culture, more bad than good obviously, since they are more occupied with their personal well-being and their alleged openness to others. 'Het Oog en de Ander' rests on its biting sarcasm through which the group members outplay all the deceitful racist prejudices. The staging is direct without distractions. It builds on a direct and lively visualization of the little stories told, which is a typical characteristic of Dutch dance-theatre. At the end, one of the performers paints a skeleton with black paint on his white torso, hanging out of a wheelchair..."
Gerald Siegmund, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29 May 2000