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LAST MINUTE OPEN CALL – The Futurists are looking for two 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 for the location based music theater production ZUAM which will perform at O. festival, Oerol Terschelling, Boslab and Gaudeamus .

ZUAM is an immersive opera performance for a (mixed) vocal ensemble, electronics and video. It tells the story of a cyber-ancient tribe living in an unknown world and reality, suspended between pre-historic and distant future. ZUAM explores archetypes and rituals, bridging a gap between the past and the future. It is a pagan cyberpunk story full of ritual mysticism, both a hallucinogenic trip and cleansing Catharsis. The piece is formally inspired by the zaum idea of a transrational intuitive language thought up by the Futurist poets in the early 20th century. ZUAM proposes an escape from the concrete present into the multi-layered unknown, the unseen, the unspoken, the poetic, the mysterious.

We are looking for 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 to join our cast. These movers, dansers, actors or mimers will have a role in guiding the audience, interacting with them and holding the space for the music, the ritual and concentration of the piece. You will be part of a cast of professional opera singers and a deaf dancer and work with our choreographer and the artistic team.

We are looking for 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 we are seeking to give our audience, rather than following a strict choreography or a musical score. You will join our cast in the last rehearsals and perform during O.FSTVL , OEROL, BOSLAB & GAUDEAMUS.

If you are interested please drop an email with your CV & short motivation to: 𝗷𝗮𝗸𝗼𝗯@𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀.𝗻𝗹
We would like to meet you for an informal conversation with movement on 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹, 𝟭𝟳𝗵 𝗶𝗻 Het Huis Utrecht 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁.

Availability:
16/17/18/19/20 May
23/24/25. May
6-16. June
29aug – 1. sept
5 sept

𝗧𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀, 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀
Pay: Projectprice according to experience and availability.

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Interview with Futurists by DEN, the Dutch Knowledge Institution for Digital Transformation & Culture, about the use of new technologies in
“Fish dance when they are not sleeping”:

Futurists open the doors of the theatre to the group most excluded from it: the Deaf. How they do that?
Jerzy Bielski and Thomas Brand talk about their experiments.

Click here to read more 

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The new music 360 (VR) movie “A.” is in the making. This surreal existential tale driven by a musical score tells a story of an anonymous individual, who suddenly finds himself alone in the middle of an ocean, surrounded with his dreams, half-forgotten memories, and visions of the future. We are inside the A.’s world almost like inside a whale’s belly.
Click on the images to read more:

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Following the two labs at the Dutch National Opera in 2022 in collaboration with the European Network of Opera Academies Futurists are preparing for the main production of a music theatre project created together with and for the Deaf people, “Fish dance when they are not sleeping” . Click on the images to read more:

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2023 will also see the creation of “Tirr Ciwliit Kix”, music-video-dance performance installation on the ability to auto-create and adapt, which is probably the most human feature out of all the others. With the help of the ancient-futurist proto-language (Ursprache), stripped of the rational meaning as we know it, a unique aesthetic, reaching the soul directly, will be created.
Stay tuned for more details.

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In 2024 a creation of a new large scale interdisciplinary opera “ZUAM” will happen. This immersive music theatre performance for 4 singers, Deaf dancer, electronics and visuals will take a form of a 2 hour long ritual, appealing directly to our imagination and subconsciousness. It tells the story of a cyber-ancient tribe living outside of the known reality, suspended between pre-historic times and a distant future. “ZUAM” appears as a “beyond-reason” and “beyond-verbal” protest against the evil and hypocrisy of the world, the rite of life and death, being born and growing old. It will be a pagan cyberpunk story full of ritual mysticism and terror, a hallucinogenic trip and cleansing Catharsis, all in one. More information will follow in late 2023.

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On 6 October 2022 NTR broadcasted ‘Op de Planken’ which featured our immersive VR music theatre performance NO-ONE SHOW. Check the teaser below or watch the full episode on NPO 2 extra and NPO start.