community art
united sorry organizes events for the community. these are events which mostly take place only one time, with a lot of partipants, in an atmosphere of celebration and reflection a certain theme.
Mexico City/ the ritual of finishing
at the prisma conference in mexico city, julu 2009 robert organized a ritual to end and evaluate the meeting. It was a guided dance meditation within three imaginary zones.
photos david berge
The first zone was walking through long corridors, the second zone was an empty white floating space where you …
Vienna/ Maria Theresia entdeckt die Zeitgenoessische Kunst
# 1 demonstration
demonstration to the statue of Maria Theresia to ask her spirit to come in our new statue. After this we brought the new embodied statue back to the brut theatre.
# 2 gala
Evening performance/showcase in the Brut theatre as openingsevent of the season
Vienna/ Alternative Dream Asylum
choreographic venture / Impulstanz 2005
united sorry provided a collaboration-period for young dancers and choreographers, starting in the mountains and ending in a beautiful small viennese theatre. we worked in the night till dawn. the last days of this laboratory period we asked the public to join us in what we …
Tarzan/the male experience
In the beginning Tarzan was an improvisation event initiated by the dancers/choreographers Gonnie Heggen, Frans Poelstra, the dramaturge Robert Steijn, the visual artist Jacquine van Elsberg and the musician/composer Steve Heather. Now it is offered as a strcutured inprovisation event for male performers and musicians. it is a ritual to explore the male identity of an adventurer, and warrior in a hallucinating way.
Tower of Babel
In the pre-united sorry robert made together with the dutch director Lidy Six a ritual to connect people from different cultures within one city. It was an approach to meet each other in an intymate way, and an opportunity to listen to the mothertongue of other people. The ritual is …