The Artists Are Present is ICK Dans Amsterdam's festival in which the new generation of artists present themselves to the public and share the floor with each other.
After the first successful edition last autumn in Nieuw-West, the festival now takes place for the first time in Frascati. From Wednesday 13 to Friday 15 December, young dance and performance makers will take you on an exciting journey of discovery in a dynamic programme of performances, installations, unexpected pop-up presentations and talks.
The Artists Are Present works with two different routes per evening. This way, you can visit two shows per evening and enjoy the pop-up performances in between. Via route 3A you'll first see Try not to know what you know and afterwards visit the double bill Indigo en Blackstone and no strings attached.
The evening is hosted by Robin Nimanong. In the physical theatrical performance Try not to know what you know , Merel Severs and Milou van Duijnhoven step into a self-constructed arena, in which they explore both desire and aversion to heroism.
They let go of what they think they know and make a new proposition; in constant motion, transformative, fluid and ambiguous. Playing with martial arts, destruction, creation and everything in between, they attempt to free themselves from the conditioned body where violence seems to win out over connection.
