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DIKWIJLS (OFTEN)
"The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness."
T.S. Eliot
Often we do things without thinking about them.
We do them with ease. We do some things so often that they have crept
into our bodies as familiar habits. No problem then. It only starts to
go wrong if we start to think about it. Then nothing goes of its own accord.
Once again, Jan Langedijk has created a performance
about human action, thought and the gulf that often lies between the two.
His performances fluctuate between hilarious and abstract scenes.
Without a single spoken word, the performers depict
a world through their movements and performance in which man is continually
forced to choose between endless doubt and simple hard work.
Langedijk's theatrical language is composed of
robust actions. He does not shun concrete action. Whether it concerns
piling up pallets, hitching sails or dismantling a house. He is always
able to choreograph it, so that the work becomes a spectacle in itself.
Also in dikwijls, in which three men imagine that they have found their
routine in their daily work place.
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