Youth devised performance / Resistance! = Youth Festival of Modern European History
About
The performance presents a visual, musical and physical interpretation of the Moluccan experience in the Netherlands. In fifteen minutes, the young actors guide the audience through this history and the development of how we perceive this history. The past of the Moluccans is still sensitive in the present, even if many Dutch citizens are not fully aware of it. The young people researched this past and spoke to first, second and third generation Dutch-Molucan people, the last of whom was the same age as them. Very different conversations both in terms of the context in which they were collected and the levels of emotion. Many of these stories and the feelings that accompany them were new to the project participants, who tried to understand the feelings of an entire population that was unheard of. After this research, they tried to figure out how to relate to this information and established their own personal connection with a story that they now realized was shared. All this led the young people and their mentor to create an energetic performance, influenced by Moluccan cultural elements, which reveals a wide variety of perspectives.
Credits
Authors and performers Olivier Schulenburg, Thirza Nijsink, Nutsa Lomsadze
Mentor and director Fiona Kelatow
Artistic supervisor Chris de Vries
Production Het Stichting Theaterschip
Support
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission, programme CERV - Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values.
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