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ANTIDOTE FESTIVAL-
THE PAPER EDITION

Antidote Festival - The Paper Edition is an adventure per mail. This festival-on-paper contains six performances that together form a hike on the Dutch Mountain.

In the Dutch landscape a mountain is an illusion, a dream image, an oxymoron. The idea of a self-built mountain in the middle of this flat country got us fantasizing wildly about creating new futures and new communities. Together with artists from the fields of dance, theater, performance and social art we decided to build and inhabit such a place for new ideas. You are invited to come up. 

The six paper performances guide a journey uphill. Roadmap in hand, you find your way past three paper stages: Mapping & Packing; Sore Feet and Vistas. 

*** LINE UP ***

Your Adventure - a meditative storytelling performance by phone (English) | Mica Pan

As you lean against the noise - a choreographic take on the resilience of nature (Language no problem) | Chronos

Scold - a short story about a secret kept in a jar (Dutch) | Sofie Kramer

Who Cares? The dictionary - a homemade dictionary that dissolves when you use it (English) | MOHA

the Listeners - a love letter from someone you least expect it (English)| the Academy of New Rituals

The Himmelsbach Dutch Mountain Tarot - a DIY tarot deck (Language no problem) | Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries

BARE TIME 2021

In 2021 Antidote presented a reworked version of the gallery performance Bare Time, initially developed in 2019. Performed by Elisa Zuppini, Federica della Pozza and Doke Pauwels.

Bare Time (2021) was presented as a durational performance at puntWG.

BARE TIME 2019

Bare Time is the story of three performers spending six hours in a gallery. The daily activities of warming up, dancing and resting are performed within the space. Looped, these activities succumb to a choreographed pattern in which nothing new enters. At the same time, the stage in which they're performed provides the potential for micro events to influence the flow, emancipating the routine. There is a search for a common time, constructed within a fight for the partition of times.

Concept: Koen Bartijn
Performers: Elisa Zuppini, Doke Pauwels, Koen Bartijn
Flyer: Julia Mira
Photography: Inez Agese

Bare Time (2019) was part of the group expo Ampersands in W139.

ANTIDOTE FESTIVAL 2019

Antidote Festival was a three day dance and performance festival in the province of Utrecht. On 28, 29 and 30 June, 2019, an international collective of artists from Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Brussels and Cape Town moved into the forest to establish a temporary, future arts community. The encounter between audience and dancers, choreographers, performers, technicians, thinkers and other artists was pivotal during this No Backstage festival.

Antidote Festival presented performances, work in progress and workshops by: Sita Ostheimer Company; Cherish Menzo and Benjamin Kahn; Faizah Grootens; Tiisetso Mashifane Wa Noni; Nicola van Straaten; Doke Pauwels; Phelim Hoey; Louis Nam Le van Ho and Noé Pellencin; Joram van Loggem; Xanthe van Opstal; Maarten Bos; Elisa Zuppini; Darkroom Contemporary and Mthuthuzeli November.

Artistic direction: Doke Pauwels en Koen Bartijn
Producer: Katrine Steeghs
Location: Herman van Veen Arts Center
Photographer: Rona Lane  
Aftermovie: Rogier Houwen (camera) and Doke Pauwels (edit)

Antidote Festival 2019 was supported by VSB Fonds; Ons Fonds; Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds; KF Hein Fonds; Tijgat Fonds and the Herman van Veen Arts Center.