Jim, Rock, Tie & Coach

Jim, Rock, Tie & Coach

Four characters – or are they elements? – find themselves inside a game of which they don’t really know the rules. Nonetheless, they play along. They tremble, jerk, rock their way through vaguely familiar situations and scripts.

“Through the use of reality as a looping moment, the piece reflects the absurdity of a repeated present without progress. It appeals by looping. Repeat, repeat, progress! The body becomes the limitation.” – Coach

“Fragile and bizarre, mixing artificial detachments, the organic machine becomes a mirror in which obsessions emerge.” – Jim

“The characters, manipulating situations, act as characters.” – Rock

“Many characters are corporate stock phrases. With stock phrases the glimmers of differentiation win. Playing with mixing what’s alive and what isn’t. What strikes most upon first viewing is the quality of the gestures highlighted through breathing. The work is arguably scripted.” – Tie

Credits:

Onder leiding van: Nathan Ooms

Van en met: Giel Luyten, Arnaud Muco, Pepijn Vermeulen & Anton Rys

Met dank aan: Anna Franziska jäger, Simon De Winne, Bardia Mohammad, Danspunt, Trefpunt, KASK Drama.