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PASSIE (a performance)

Lucas — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:31:29 +0000

At the Hartstochtfestival of Het Zuidelijk Toneel Nhelden will also create the public dans performance PASSIE (passion)

The festival is in 6 cities and the theme is passion and old people. For us and certainly as a part of the Bejaarden&Begeerte project, the dialogue between old and young is very important. And because nobody of the young people these days dances in pairs anymore we decided to make a performance where old and young would dance a foxtrot.

We wanted our performance to unite the six cities of Hartstocht so we came up with the idea of writing a letter with dancing people in each city creating the word PASSIE (passion).

So in each city of the festival, there will be a local band playing a foxtrot on one of the main squares. All the people will be put in pairs to dance within the outlines of a letter. At a certain point all the dancers will open their given red umbrellas and the small airplane that flies above the square will film the whole event.

Curious how it goes ? Or want to join the dancing check www.bejaarden-en-begeerte.nl

Bejaarden & Begeerte @ Hartstocht

Lucas — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:37:23 +0000

From 13 may till 18 June Oscar Kocken, different singers of 70+ and myself will perform the show Bejaarden&Begeerte (old people and passion) in six different cities in the south of the Netherlands. Our show is part of the Hartstochtfestival of Het Zuidelijk Toneel (www.hzt.nl)

In Bejaarden&Begeerte Oscar and I talk about love, sex and longing at the age of 65+ we wrote our own texts based on many conversations we had with old people in Tilburg last year October and November.

If you want to come, you are more than welcome but be aware that to get in you have to be 65+ or accompanied by a 65+. If you don’t have, find or know a 65+ to bring along you can come earlier and we will hook you up before the show starts.

For more info and dates see www.bejaarden-en-begeerte.nl

Bejaarden & Begeerte

Lucas — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:04:01 +0000

This week Oscar Kocken and I started a new project called ‘Bejaarden en Begeerte ‘or ‘Seniors and Passion’. B&B is a long term project with many different creative components all dealing with the three main aspects of Passion: Heart (love, relations, dating, falling in) Physical (lust, sex, erotism, body) and Psycological (loneliness, missing, longing, wanting, needing) And that for and about people older than 65years old.

Our thesis is simple: When it comes to passion you dont speak about it with your children or your parents but you do have to speak about it. Since the passion aspects are ageless we open up the dialogue with our grandparents. Therefore Under 35 meets above 65 in stories, interviews, a showcase, happenings and much more.

We will keep you updated as usual on a website which is now being built and that will be linked on nhelden.nl

The first fase of the project is research and making a performance supported by Het Zuidelijk Toneel, that will be played in retirement homes and all centra where the 65+ meet up.

Try outs B&B succes

Lucas — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:49:42 +0000

This week we did three try outs of the theatre show for Old People and Passion that we will perform in may and june during the Hartsocht festival of HZT. I must say, we were pleasantly surprised by how many people came, and by the reactions afterwards. Old and young were very positive and even moved by the show.

Thanks to all the talks we had with the audience afterwards we shortened and strenthened our show. What also worked very well was putting the young people, who came without a 65+ partner, together with a 65+ visitor. All new formed couples stayed after the show and shared stories and emotions. We will definitely do this again for our shows in May and June.

Bejaarden en begeerte

Lucas — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:37:01 +0000

In one and a half week we play the try outs of the Niet ver van je Bed show (not far from your bed show) the performance that is part of Bejaarden en Begeerte (old people and passion)

We ve been on the national radio (Radio 2), on NPS and Omroep Max Television and in many news papers to tell the story about our project. For us a very important part in this project because in this way we open up the dialogue between old and young about love and intimacy on many different levels.

We play 28th (20u), 29th (14u)and 30th (20u) of december in Tilburg the try outs.

for more info check www.bejaarden-en-begeerte.nl

Old people and Passion

Lucas — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:13:01 +0000

We are now over half way in our project Bejaarden en Begeerte about passion at 65+. We did interviews with psychologists, activity organisers, priests, old people and many more, we made a radio show in an old people’s home, went with a camera on the street, presented a bingo afternoon, and made preparations for more activities the coming weeks to do. For more info on our activities, research and show: www.bejaarden-en-begeerte.nl

Bejaarden&Begeerte ONLINE

Lucas — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:32:34 +0000

Our new project Seniors and Passion or Bejaarden&Begeerte is now online (in Dutch) with blogs, pictures, info and much more; the whole project is about love, intimicay and passion above 65 and that in relation to us (twenty to thirty year olds)

we now do all our research in Tilburg and in collaboration with Het Zuidelijk Toneel and will make a showcase, some activities, a book and maybe much more see and read it all on: