Paradox of Desire

PARADOX OF DESIRE, the dynamic dance-theatre production by Suzy Blok in co-production with the Theatercompagnie premiered on the 30th of May 2005 in the Compagnietheater in Amsterdam.

Theme is the paradox of desire. Desire exists when the object of desire is not immediately at reach. When the desire is satisfied it is no longer a ”desire“ and a new one soon arises to take its place. Dance, text and music are combined in this production performed by four dancers, two actors and one musician.

For the first time Suzy worked together with theatre director Theu Boermans to intensify the research of combining dance and text. Every action in the performance has a mental and a physical aspect. The main point being that both language and movement compose the partituur.

The words paradox and desire were extensively examined, portraying the perpetuum mobile of hope and despair that these words cause. Because these problems - this paradox of desiring - are too large for life. Or life is too small for this eternal desiring.

The music was specially composed and performed by Canadian composer and musician Krista Vincent.

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Choreography & direction Suzy Blok

Text-direction Theu Boermans
Script Monica Blok, Suzy Blok
Dancers Alba Barral Fernandez, Kelly Hirina, Reinier Schimmel, Jaakko Toivonen
Acteurs Roos Drenth en Leopold Witte Musician & composer Krista Vincent
Decors Tjallien Walma van der Molen
Light design Desiree van Gelderen Erik van Raalte
Costume design Dorine van IJsseldijk
Dramaturgy Berthe Spoelstra & Monica Blok
Text Monica Blok, David Grossman, Gabriel Garcia Marques
Rehearsal director Desiree Schneider
Production Erik van Raalte
Technical staff Boy van Maasakker, Leo van der Zijden, Theunis Zijlstra
Production assistant DU Mariken van Sitteren
Publicity Theatercompagnie & Dance Unit
Management and sales Dance Unit & Theatercompagnie

Paradox of desire is a co-production of stichting Satori and de Theatercompagnie and was made possible with financial support by the Fonds voor Amateurkunst en Podiumkunsten, stichting Doen and VSB Fonds.

Photo by Ben Van Duin