NAU, 1e jaring. New (music) performance of Collectief Walden

We need parties. The conversation falters. Voices strike; strikes break; the right to demonstrate is curtailed. What else is left for us, but to dance? For centuries, communities have formed around beats and pulses.

Can we lose ourselves and find each other? Can we flirt with the moss, fuss with tree lilies? A fledgling tradition shoots up like beach grass, salute the centuries that come after you. NAU is an over-the-hill party of our civilisation. This is not yet the end, but from here you can see it. Let's dance. And in such a way that the foresters get something out of it too.

try-out Tolhuistuin, Garden | 10 May 2024

Oerol Festival, Loodseplak, Terschelling | 7 - 15 June 2024
start 11:00h & 13:00h
Tickets

Collective Walden is: Thomas Lamers, René van Bakel, Raïssa Pater, Jaël Kaat, Jermaine Berkhoudt, Sophia Keck, Maria Stuut, Jaap Warmenhoven, Kelvin Pater, Bram van Gameren, Jente Hoogeveen & choir
Made possible by: Performing Arts Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts

Designing, programming and produce the tour and impact program of the performance ATMEN.

Own graphic design work (books, flyers, typography)

Graduation show Graphic Design, KASK Ghent.
More information is coming soon.

With RADIX, Collectief Walden shows that our dealings with invasive exotics are characteristic of our actions as a species, humans, on the planet. We want the benefits, but not the burdens of our expansive ambitions.

26th - 30th of October during WE ARE WARMING UP FESTIVAL at Tolhuistuin Amsterdam

Credits
Producer podcast: Katz Laszlo
Writer: Stan Frijsinger
Voice actor: ‘Ntianu Stuger
Producer: Raïssa Pater
Collectief Walden

If the landscape changes and the future runs out, how do we want to deal with it now? Do we dance everything out and burn up the future quickly, but fiercely? Or do we put her away so we can keep her with us as long as possible. Collective Walden makes blueprints of a changing landscape using conversations with Terschellingers.

How do Terschellings deal with the changing landscape? Collective Walden does a baseline measurement: the past movement of the landscape is recorded and – in the tradition of passing on knowledge through songs and songs – sung into the future. A start for a new ritual for eternity. Not a coming of age, but a coming of nature.

Ever since humans lost most of their body hair, we've been looking for warmth, in hundreds of ways, to solve our cold.
We'll look for her when we get home tonight and turn up our central heating thermostat. We look for her when we get dressed in the morning, or undress under the down of the night.
We're looking for her in the shower. In someone else's skin. In the food that is grown with sweat, prepared with fire, and burned with hunger. We look for her in factories and in power stations. Where the heat of smoldering coals and fission cores is driven up and energized. Which in turn causes our homes and universities, our airports, concert halls and hospitals, to be lit bright white, shining like twinkling stars against the blue-black face of the night. But what if the solution becomes the new problem? What if the warmth we so desire becomes sweltering, suffocating?

WARMTE is an interdisciplinary location artwork in the public space.

Tweetakt is an arts festival for everyone. You will discover an innovative and exciting theater and dance program full of premieres, new productions by young talent and success numbers from well-known companies. You can take a break from the busy program at the festival location Fort Ruigenhoek, where art installations are exhibited annually in the open air.
This year also completely corona proof!

Corona manager & advisor: Raïssa Pater

Over het IJ presents adventurous art productions throughout the year, always in relation to urban themes and in exciting locations in Amsterdam. Across the IJ you can see the city with new eyes. Inspire, enrich and amaze yourself, get to know new places, people and their stories. For everyone who believes that art, connection and meeting ensure a better and more beautiful world.

Dutch newspapers about the festival:

Within the familiar environment of four plexiglass walls, two figures drag their furniture undisturbed. In a continuous movement of sliding and shifting, they try to shape their own inner world. An interior as a maelstrom of constant transformation and restless movement, looking for the right balance between inside and outside.

Following Nomads and Gods, the Constructions of my interior is the third part in a series about the displaying man.

Try out: 29th of October @ United Cowboys, Eindhoven
Première: 30th of October @ United Cowboys, Eindhoven
Performance:
31th of October @ United Cowboys, Eindhoven
16 - 18 of November @ Veem House of Performance, Amsterdam
8 - 11 of December @ Theater Kikker, Utrecht

Credits:
Concept and direction: Sam Scheuermann
Performers: Koen van der Heijden and Sam Scheuermann
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Dramaturgy: Jasmijn van Wijnen
Sound design: Krijn Moons
Light- & set design: Kelvin Pater
Thanks to: Lotte van den Berg and Erik van de Wijdeven
Made possible by: PLAN Brabant, NORMA Corona Fonds and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten

Lost Landscape

A poetic route shows how we as humans interact with nature. People cannot restrain themselves to appropriate and build places in their environment. In Jeugdland too, the children are busy building and creating themselves, but what does this actually mean? Our intervention transforms the landscape into a new form. Nature reacts to this again, adapts or overgrows. This performance shows how order and the original go hand in hand.

*Jeugdland is a nature playground in the East of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

This project is part of a graduation performance of Sabine Okrouhlik, student Scenography at the Amsterdam University of the Arts.


Credits:
Scenic Design: Sabine Okrouhlík
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Assistent producer: Job Leseman
Actors: Ella Jonker, Zoë Schollee, Martijn Huisman & Annet de Ruiter
Light designer: Hessel Hilgersom
Technician: Erik Gramberg
Graphic designer: Linde Ruigrok van der Werven

Big thanks to:
Tatyana van Walsum, Hella Godee, Bart Visser, Gemma van Kruijsbergen, Bas de Bruijn, Bodine Sutorius, het Decoratelier, Afdeling Theater Techniek & Jeugdland Amsterdam.

Tickets: Lost Landscape tickets

The Sound of Light is a performance installation that makes the voice of natural light audible. An installation that generates electricity by means of the force of nature, from which a composition ensues.

Together we  search for the sound and color of light. Can natural light be, just as humans, a source of music?
With this installation we want to create more awareness about natural light, by making it’s fluctuating values ​​audible. Any change in sound is equivalent to a change in natural light. By composing with light, we create awareness of the power of nature.

 Come listen to what the natural light has to say!

Tune in on the 20th, 21th, 27th and / or 28th of June from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm CET via Youtube, Facebook and Instagram.

Credits
Design: Natural Light Project
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Sound design: Maurits Nijhuis and Samuel de Smit
Technical design: Samuel de Smit
Voice-over: Xandra Nur Clark

This project was made possible by the Amsterdam University of the Arts and the Interfaculty Foundation.

Based on the play ‘With Joran aan Zee’ by Rob de Graaf and the documentary ‘The Act of Killing’, are four actors doing research about the evil.
Within pop culture and philosophy, the difference between good and evil is already outdated. Are we in need of change?

Concept & play: Damaris de Jong, Jasper Stoop, Nikki Kuis en Tijn Panis
Production: Raïssa Pater
Light design: Wout Panis
Technicians: Remy Pieplenbosch, Camiel van Eijs en Jasper Kayser
Sound design: Charley McNelly