Der Standard, october 13th, 2007
feminine delight
by Frans Poelstra, Robert Steijn en Martin Siewert
The Dance of the Ovaries
by Helmut Ploebst
At the close of the steirischer herbst festival (Stiermarken Autumn Festival) – with almost 45,000 people visiting the events this year – the performers Frans Poelstra and Robert Steijn have focused on the Grand Old Lady …
Black Box Theatre Oslo
Totally naked humour.
Funny, loving and teasing about the ingredients in a typically
intellectual dance-performance.
The Dutch Frans Poelstra had a dream. He wanted to liberate himself from the stigmatizing influence of art-history. Set free from schoolsand methods, he wanted to jump around gracefully. Twist his back in
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Tanztheater International
Alexandra Glanz
ADAM DANCING
The lightness of appearance: ‘Frans Poelstra, his dramaturge and Bach’
For those who as yet were in the dark as to what a dramaturge’s profession is all about – on Monday night at the Tanztheater International all the usual questions about the art of dance and its various spheres
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Die Presse
Isabella Wallnöfer, 28.01.2005
Ein Mixer und ein Gockel am Altar der Naivität
Frans Poelstra und Robert Steijn zelebrieren im Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz ihren schamlosen, kindlich-naiven Humor.Da haben sich die zwei Richtigen gefunden. Frans Poelstra, der Performer. Robert Steijn, sein Dramaturg, der den Blick von außen beisteuert, damit Poelstra nicht den
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Le journal des laboratoires
Guillaume Desanges, numero 4/2005, english translation - original french version below
La symphonie pathétique
From the start, nudity sets the tome. Disrupting the precious melodic line of a variation for harpsichord by Bach played in darkness, the nude body of the dancer
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Die Presse
Isabella Wallnöfer / 12.07.2004
Halali zur Angsthasenjagd
Frans Poelstra als Zauberer der Fröhlichkeit im Freud-Museum
"I meditate - I masturbate - ain't it great - to bealive?" Frans Poelstra zog die knarrende Althaus-Atmosphäre des kleinen Sigmund-Freud-Museums für sein selbstironisches Solo den üblichen Aufführungsstätten vor. Dort blies er, nachdem er die Weitsichtbrille
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