MIMOSA (experiment #2) & Do We Dream Under The Same Sky? by DUST

14/5 19:00 MIMOSA (experiment #2) (40 min)
15/5 19:00 Do We Dream Under the Same Sky? (180 min)
16/5 19:00 Do We Dream Under the Same Sky? (180 min)

Doors open 30 min before each performance.

Do We Dream Under the Same Sky? is a durational performance installation, audience can leave and reenter during the performance

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MIMOSA (experiment #2) is a performance that explores nature as a disobedient ground that refuses to stay quiet and passive.

MIMOSA (experiment #2) explores the complex relationship between nature, race and gender, in the companionship o the Mimosa pudica plant. Mimosas known for its rapid and unique reactions to touch was also a faniscination of many botanists such Linnaues and Darwin who created tropica conditions for the exotic plant to survive in a foreing ground. Afetr being touched repeatly the plant began to “play dead” and ceased its movements. In the performance, choreographer Flavia Pinheiro reflects on how nature is often seen as a soft, domesticated ground and a feminine space, Mimosas as womans were Drawing parallels to figures such as Darwin and Carl Linnaeus, who once described the mimosa as fragile and shy, Pinheiro asks the question: How do we react when we are touched? Do we have to play dead to survive? What happens when we see nature as an untamed place?

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Do We Dream Under the Same Sky explores isolation and dreams with inspiration from the pandemic and a “post-truth-era”. A magical portal between the past and an alternative dreamworld in the shape of a clinic.

In Do We Dream Under the Same Sky?, we meet characters navigating through a fragmented reality, where the line between dream and waking is blurred. The performance takes place in a clinic-like setting - a place of both physical and mental healing, but also a reflection of a fragmented world. The characters are caught in a loop of repetitive rituals and memories, constantly rebuilding their surroundings in a search for meaning. Inspired by the aftermath of the pandemic and a post-truth era, the performance opens a portal to a dream world. Through evocative images and constant self-transformations, the audience becomes part of this meditative and cathartic process. With a soundscape woven of political speeches, echoing empty streets, and reports from the pandemic, the real mixes with the fictional. “Do We Dream Under the Same Sky” is an invitation to explore the depths of the human psyche and search for collective dreams in a fragmented reality.

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DUST

DUST was founded in 2020 as a temporary institute that creates performances and installations through broad collaborations across various media, including choreography, theater, and performance installations.

Tom Oliver Jacobson is a Swedish performer and curator based in Amsterdam. Their work revolves around world-building through performance art and crafting new narratives about the world through writing and collaboration. They are a co-founder of Tlön, a performance collective specializing in immersive, long-duration works ranging from intimate dinners to large-scale nightclub events.

Flavia Pinheiro is an award-winning choreographer and researcher based in Amsterdam. Her work explores art as a form of resistance against existing systems of knowledge.

Rodrigo Batista is a Brazilian theater director whose works serve as aesthetic statements addressing contemporary geopolitical contexts, employing intense physical research rooted in impulses of humor, discomfort, blood, and sex.