I made some videos for the performance ‘Wij Bouwen de Stad’ by Domestica Rotterdam, which will have it’s premiere this weekend on September 5th, during the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival 2010. (In cooperation with Lotte de Vries.)
Geen Familie is the latest theatre play of cowboy bij nacht, for which i composed music and co-designed the stage lighting. In Geen Familie, a young girl asks a number of people to act as her family to celebrate her birthday.
Cowboy bij Nacht will present a preview of their new theatre performance Geen Familie in the beautiful old Pastoefabriek in Utrecht, september 13, 2009.
Geen Familie will have its premiere on nov 12, 2009 at Huis a.d. Werf, Utrecht.
In samenwerking met Huis en Festival a/d Werf produceert Cowboy bij Nacht Ik dacht dat ik mijn naam hoorde. Deze voorstelling is exclusief voor het Festival a/d Werf 2009 gemaakt.
Ik dacht dat ik mijn naam hoorde gaat over dat wat zij zeker weet, terwijl hij daar toch anders over denkt. Over wat hij weet en zij denkt te weten. Over haar twijfels over iets dat hij evident vindt. Over dat wat zij als zonneklaar ziet, terwijl hij het gewoon had verzonnen. Over zijn echte leven dat zij ervaart als een leugen.
There are two sides to every story en Cowboy bij Nacht gaat samen met het publiek op zoek naar de andere kant van het verhaal.
Mozzhukhin (2008) is a performance installation by cowboy bij nacht, inspired by a classic cinematic experiment by Lev Kuleshov, known today as the “Kuleshov effect”.
Around 1918, Lev Kuleshov edited a short film in which shots of actor Ivan Mozzhukhin, looking into the camera, were intercutted with fragments of various objects. The audience praised the acting skills of Mozzhukhin; first an object made him hungry, then sad, etc… In reality the audience always watched the same shot of the actor, in which he actually looks quite expressionless.
Cowboy Bij Nacht is curious about the theatrical implications of this experiment, and invites the audience to act as a test person.
Ruis ik slecht verstaan and Bomans hoort u mij are two new theatre shows from Cowboy Bij Nacht and het NUT, a theatrical remake of the 1971 dutch radioshow ‘Alleen op een Eiland’. For both performances (playing simultaneously, and connected through a live radio connection) i composed music and took care of the design of the soundsystem.
Muisman Opnemen is the newest performance of theatre group cowboy bij nacht, for which I again composed the soundtrack. Muisman Opnemen is based on the novel ‘The Overcoat’ by Nikolaj Gogol (1809 – 1852) and is about Muisman, a civil servant with a futile function. He nevertheless loves his job and everyday, he arrives happy at the office. One day, he meets the impulsive ‘girl upstairs’. She pursues him to buy a new overcoat. This overcoat will forever change his life.
Maandag of Dinsdag is a new play of theatre group cowboy bij nacht, for which i composed music and (partly) did light- and stagedesign. It is inspired by ‘The Hours’ (2002), the oscar-winning movie directed by Stephen Daldry. Maandag of Dinsdag is a portrait of Gina, Laura and Clarissa, who all ended up in an emotional vacuum. As a result, their luck becomes nothing more than a façade. Maandag of Dinsdag shows the day on which this façade will be demolished.
“Gina wants to be independent, but asks her husband for permission if she wants to take a walk. Laura tries to hide that she’s too depressive to even bake a cake and has to ask her three year old son where to start. Clarissa makes sure she’s always too busy to think”
Atkritka is a theatrical performance by Cowboy Bij Nacht. It is based on the documentary film Checkpoint of Yoav Shamir, concerning the social intercourse between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian citizens at checkpoints around the Palestinian areas. For this play, I composed a multichannel soundtrack.