“Identity is about sharing ideas, beliefs or history through a common set of attributes and signs establishing a recognizable sense of identification.”
IK BEN DUS is an interdisciplinary performance in which six performers join you in exploring the meaning and role of identity. It is an investigation into how identity comes into being, why it comes into being the way it does, its impact, its rigidity, its past and present. It looks at where it rubs and where it illuminates. It explores where understanding opens up and where it closes.
Six performers will engage you in this conversation. They will discuss the disappearance of old certainties, about how the world has become more unpredictable, diffuse, and changeable over the years. About the many opportunities this has brought, but also about the diminishing of our sense of stability. About how ideological structures and religions have lost much of their significance. About how people often focus mostly on themselves. About colour as ‘unclaimed territory’. About Dutch identity and why it has such resonance today. About clothing. And about the desire to connect. And about the fact that this desire is not unique to our time; it has always existed and will always continue to do so.
IK BEN DUS was performed in 2020 at the Delft Fringe Festival and in 2019 at ArtEZ University of the Arts.
Direction and concept: Elsbeth Hoefkens
Performers: Anne de Jong, Boy van der Heiden, Iris Hulleman, Kim Herman, Maud Eikenaar, and Sydney Benitez.
