OH YEAH, YOU’VE GOT SOME FANTASTIC GEAR 10+
An anti-materialist pamphlet for new consumers
“This is some fantastic gear.
Such fantastic gear you’ve got.
I could do with some of this.
Wow, all this wonderful, fantastic gear I’m seeing here.
It’s making me envious.
Oh boy!
This is some really great gear.
Oh boy, you’ve really got some fantastic gear.
Hell it’s insane.
Wow.
Amaaaazing!”
In Oh yeah, you’ve got some fantastic gear (Ja, ja, ja, jullie hebben hele mooie spulletjes) we complement our audience with the lovely things they own. An admiration which is heartfelt, but which also makes us wonder what would happen if we had to do without these things.
Taking inspiration from 1960s and 70s anti-consumerism performances, show ballets from popular family TV game shows and recordings of an isolated group of Papuas staring at a piece of tinfoil with puzzled looks, we are trying to answer a simple question: why do we let ourselves be taken in by shiny things?
A show for many ages starting from age 10.
Hans Leenderste
Tjebbe Roelofs
Chiron Holwijn
Theun Mosk
Peter Anthonissen
Willemijn Zevenhuijzen
Balletschool Margot Bierens & Wanda Kuiper, Showballet Nicole & EDC Dans
‘s-Hertogenbosch, 15 November 2014