COOK, EAT & CLEAN – Ritual of Disobedience 

SAT 27 NOV

Still Dancing for Peace

Artist: Robert Steijn& Laura Pudelek

Format: Performance

Duration: 60 min

Short description

The last years, I am working on a performance ceremony to explore the old white man syndrome. I want the world to get rid of the patriarchal addiction to be in power. How to clean ourselves from the deadlock we live in, the deadlock to exhaust the planet, the body, the soil. In different settings and formats, depending on where I am asked to perform, I show my own somatic cosmology to show a body in dance, text, and songs that is subversive towards the old and opens the senses towards a way of living that is driven by empathy and a feeling of interconnection. I calm down the abusive side of the fire energy, as it is propagated in the manosphere, and I dwell in the silver-lined dream reality of the moon cycles. Meanwhile, it is important to train me and the audience to listen to the heartbeat of the land before any activism can start.

BIO

Robert Steijn ( 1958),  performer, living in Amsterdam, but with a long history in the Viennese dance and performance scene. He considers the performing arts as a laboratory for potentials in body and mind that can contribute to a deeper awareness of interconnectedness and an activism that is based on tenderness and transformation. In his work, he is influenced by plant medicines, trance techniques, and conceptual and relational art. At the moment, he works in Brussels, France, and Mexico.

Laura Pudelek Cellist, improviser, and performer. Her work is primarily dedicated to improvisation and experimental music and operates at the interface of music, dance, and performance. Together with Robert and Bea von Schrader, she investigates the fluidity between nature and stage.

Credits

Co-production: Tanz*hotel. With the support of Fruits of Life/Schmalz & Gombas, Kunstenwerkplaats.

Foto credits: @irina lavrinovic