robert will show the deer dance at the Lofoten, he is happy to get inspired by the rough nature there before he will come on stage

Frans will make a solo for the performance of oleg, about foreigners who settled in Austria. The performance is part of the Wiener Festwochen. the dates are 31 mai, 1,2,3, june at 20h30

Türkenschanzpark • 1180 Wien, Treffpunkt: Aussichtsturm Paulinenwarte, starts at 19h

Walls do not appear of their own accord. They are planned, constructed, and raised. Unpleasant everyday clashes with walls of mistrust, pessimism, and cynicism give rise to the impression of being stuck in eternal winter. Looking through a window proves that the hope for change is still justified, as the next spring will certainly come! After all, the performance duo united sorry will ensure that this happens with their Salon on the Grass as part of this year’s Green Conversations project.
This time the forest spirits Poelstra & Steijn, together with artists and activists, end up in the Türkenschanzpark and in the TÜWI Pub.
Searching for a strategy to counter the stagnation threatening to break the general public, united sorry attempt to instigate a new spring in society. Comparable to a revolutionary spring that represents the desire for profound change and making this change visible, old ideas are to be swept out of the way to make space for new ones. Salon on the Grass is thus entirely dedicated to the question how art and political activism can go hand in hand to initiate this very change.
Together with the salon’s invited guests, the audience will be witness to and participant in a spiritual spring-cleaning which will dispose of inherited waste and will completely fine-tune the senses for the summer.

theatre frascati hosts the duet of robert and maria hassabi, so robert can show it in his (former/partly) hometown.

robert was asked to dance his deer in the context of an investigation of grace, hosted by Cristina Rizzo/Lucia Amara. he is really looking forward to perfrorm with the two of them, in a big room in a palace, under a malicious ceiling painting about the betrayal of venus.

Loveee is performed in the context of Xing/Live Arts Week

spring dance festival 2012 hosts robert & maria, so we present our show for the first time in the Netherlands,  it feels like a kind of come back,  because we found the format for the duet, during our research time  in Danslab, the Hague.

united sorry organizes a green impro-evening in Nada Lokal, together with the musician Martin Siewert and Matthias Meinharter

Does this time need a space where one can be spontaneous, physical, even can fail and at the same time be entertaining in a whimsical way? United sorry brings their spring feeling into the Nada Lokal, with a proposal to improvise again. In the context of their year long project Green Conversations they explore how cool or out of order  improvisation can become in 2012. The musicians Martin Siewert and Matthias Meinharter will help them to explore even deeper.

Nada Lokal, Reindorfgasse 81, 1150 Wien

i come from far, i felt i was wounded by the world inside me, that couldn’t deal with the world outside. I still say to fast yes to everyone, and everything, and then later i feel guilty that i can’t commit to all the things i promised.

but now i am mentoring in a residency with a lot of  green around me. the sun is shining. it is time to relax in the breaks between my meetings and in these times i can start with a spring cleaning in my mind.

i am amazed that the older you get, the more frustrations from childhood violently appear to the surface and start to color the perception of the now. yes, i felt lonely and neglected as a kid, and yes, as the youngest of the family i was afraid not to be taken seriously, but why must such feelings of isolation suddenly appear in my mind again, after so many years.

no questions about why anymore, i just must listen i guess to what is boiling inside.

already for some time i feel not very comfortable about how theatre functions in our society at this time,  and questioning this functioss as a boomerang on how i feel myself lately when i must organize, prepare my future work by sending emails, subvention texts etcetera.

when i write this down, i must laugh about myself, because i like it, this being stuck in the mud, and i know a new perspective on things doesn’t come always that easily.

but i know,spring is in the air.