After After

In After After, Arno Schuitemaker is inspired by a question from the young Italian philosopher Federico Campagna: ‘How can we help the creation of new worlds out of the ruins of our own?’ Without focusing on showing the ruins, he undertakes a search for how we can create new worlds. With seven dancers, the performance starts from a white canvas and takes a thrilling dive into the unknown.

In the background plays the idea that Campagna describes in his work: how each of the civilizations we know so far – the Egyptian, the Greek, the Roman and so on – has always reached a climax, only to fall apart. Arno Schuitemaker: ‘In his view, we have now arrived at the end point of the neoliberal or capitalist society. There is no way out anymore. I don’t want to focus on showing the ruins, but on a search for how we can create new worlds.

”After After advocates the attempt. “It is vital that we keep trying. How could those new worlds appear? What could we draw on a blank sheet?” The dancers form a diverse cast, bursting with energy and dynamism, in which everyone’s individual strength comes first. The stage is their performance space, their body is the instrument, their versatility is the key. A radically transforming decor forms the surprising staging.