Vincent de Rooij (NL) – Csilla Lakatos (HU): BOOT – AUW!TO – FLY

Vincent de Rooij, actor, object and video artist, transforms the everyday world of objects and materiality into absurdly poetic stage spectacles. The Hungarian Csilla Lakatos, trained dancer and Daan Mathot musician, worked for many years with the Dutch theatre group Dogtroep, which strongly influenced the development of visual theatre in the Netherlands.

Through their shared performances, they take the audience on a journey through the use of live cameras, human presence, and devices for visual and spacial manipulation. In the parking-lot-turned-landing-pad of the Trafó and the miniature film studio in front of it, they'll be putting on three performances as part of the Dutch Festival, so it's no surprise if we find ourselves on an airplane, in the middle of a highway or swimming in soup…

AUW!TO


A tragic film made on the spot. The audience is witnessing the live making of the film and the projection of the movie in the same moment. A mini film studio with changing sets and three video cameras in between the audience,live music, live sound effects, one director and one musician.
On a small table steels Nobody a car. Nobody gets an accident and eventually wonderfully Nobody dies. Did he crash into himself?

FLY


A cameraman, a musician and different film sets are the ingredients of this mini multimedia theatre performance. A brilliant multimedia innovation – short, snappy, funny and dramatic! Live acting, live music and live camera work.
FLY is about a bowl of chicken soup, weightlessness of nightmares, the umbilical cord of our existence, about Adam’s apple and about the lack of oxygen. In a head spinning “space odyssey” the main character meets destiny in a universe created in his own soup.
The audience witnesses the live creation and production of a short film. They are surrounded by film sets where the scenes are made, cut, and at the same time projected on a movie screen.

Man hoovers his house,
Eats a plate of chicken broth,
A fly lands in his soup,
Man kills the fly and hoovers it up,
Fly changes into an aircraft,
Hoover becomes the engine of the plane,
He seems forced to be the pilot,
But he can not fly,
He flies out of the atmosphere,
Because of his plane exploding,
Man is a floating astronaut in space,
He grabs the Earth with his hand,
It appears to be an apple,
He wants to take a bite but changes his mind,
He puts the Earth back into space,
He is waltzing through space to Strauss’s “The Blue Danube ”
when appears a soup spoon and a second later he finds himself floundering
In his own plate of chicken broth.
 
BOOT / BOAT


BOAT is a short performance which plays in a half airplane, an Antonov 2. It’s lacking the front and the wings, furthermore there’s nothing wrong with it. A hilarious, absurd triptych wherein spectacular happenings and unexpected developments.
It is a metaphorical performance about extremities, high and low, hope and anxiety, illusion and the delusion of religious belief. Who’s God defines your destiny?
Unlike the previous short productions, there is no video application in this new performance.The focus is now on stage play, scene changes and optical illusions.

By and/or with: Vincent DE ROOIJ, Csilla LAKATOS, Daan MATHOT

Courtesy: Hendrik Jan DE STUNTMAN, Het DOMIJN, Kees BIERSMA, Tijs KOENEN, Martin MULDER