2024
Workshop (Ezra & Bosse)
collaboration with Extinction RebellionUtrecht for SPRING Academy.
In this workshop, participants (with backgrounds in acitivism, the arts and academia) created a short ‘installation-protest’. The theme of the protest was techno-optimism.
Mentoring(Ezra & Bosse)
Planet Winter is the graduation performance at KASK Drama of Bavo Buys and Malique Fye.
Based on the science fiction classic The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Mentoring (Ezra & Bosse)
offerplengsters is the graduation performance at Toneelacademie Maastricht of Beaudine Dermine and Varenka Theunynck.
Based on the second part of Aeschylus’ Oresteia.Created and performed at Westerbegraafplaats in Gent for NTGent’s ALL GREEKS Festival.
2023
Workshop (Ezra & Bosse)
In November, NEXT Festival invited Bosse and Ezra to give a workshop in Le Phénix in Valenciennes (FR).
A group of middle school students learned how to work with flybars, lights and intercom headsets in the theatre to create their own ‘technical ballet’. The working method was based on the technical improvisations Bosse and Ezra did with Toneelhuis’ technical crew to create Indoor Weather.
Workshop (Bosse)
In September, CAMPOinvited Bosse to give a two-day workshop at their After Summer School.
For this workshop, Bosse wanted to propose and explore non-narrative strategies to structure a performance and play with meaning.
The participating students, from different schools and training for various artistic disciplines, used the principles of a ‘landscape dramaturgy’ to stage the poem All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan.
On the 1st day, after reading and discussing the poem together, the students made sketches and snippets of material based on the poem (audio, movement phrases, objects, video, a choreography of motorized shutters in front of the ceiling windows opening and closing…), that each had their own autonomous logic.
On the 2nd day, these materials were brought together on stage. The students observed what happened: what occupies a lot of attention, what gets subsumed, what coincidences generate unexpected meanings? They were then asked to think about what compositions they could create with this material that would create relief, both sensory and conceptual, eventually resulting in a 25 minute performance-installation.
Mentoring (Ezra & Bosse)
Het personeel is the graduation performance by Matilde Casier, Celestes de Vlam, Luca Persan and Ella Boomsma at KASK Drama.
They started from The Employees by Danish poet Olga Ravn. In this performance, the question ‘what it means to be human’ is moved to a space where non-human fellow actors are also in the spotlight.
Coaching (Bosse)
OVER//HERE, performance by Runa Robbroeckx, Femke Van der Steen, Tristan Feyten en Stan Martens
OVER//HERE is a fluffy maquette of the end of the world, a science fiction comedy about that which cannot be taken on the rocket ship.
Mentoring (Bosse)
Ummm Yeah Okay And? Graduation piece at ArtEZ University of the Arts of Ryan O’Shea.
2022
February — March
HET PERSONEEL (THE EMPLOYEES)
In spring 2022, Ezra Veldhuis and Bosse Provoost gave a two-week workshop to the Masters Theater and Film Studies at the University of Antwerp.
They worked with twenty-one students in Stormkop, a kind of freespace in the harbor of Antwerp. The workshop consisted of a physical and spatial translation of Olga Ravn’s science fiction novella The Employees (shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021). The book is composed of testimonies of employees, human and humanoid, who give us a fragmentary insight on the ins and outs of a spaceship that has stumbled upon a planet of alien objects, evoking all kinds of feelings and sensations that thoroughly disturb the labor regime on the ship.
Choreographic and compositional principles were explored to depict a rigid work regime that is gradually unraveling, and performative strategies to explore the (non-)humanity of androids and cyborgs.
2020
October
SNEEUWPARTIJ
In October 2020, Bosse Provoost worked for a month with five students of Woordkunst at the Antwerp Conservatory. The goal of the project was to stage Paul Celan’s collection of poems Shneepart (Sneeuwpartij / Snowpart).
Celan’s language is so complex, dense and kaleidoscopic that it forces a performer to make strong performative choices to make poems tangible. As a spectator, you witnessed performers wrestling with language, fighting to get something shared. Very fittingly, bridging an (impassable) divide between writer and reader as well as between the living and the dead is also a major theme in Celan’s poetry.
Shneepart was published after Paul Celan’s death in 1970 and it deals primarily with the theme of self-intended death. The “inside of death” is being imagined. Plants and beetles are described as brothers and sisters, death as both an arrival and a descent. In addition, the Shoah, the social unrest of the late 1960s and the space race also recur regularly in the collection.
Masters TFL UAntwerpen, Het personeel
Masters TFL UAntwerpen, Het personeel
Bachelor 3 Woordkunst, Conservatorium Antwerpen