Performance / English Spoken / Openingsprogramma

Ika Schwander

of all your words and soft strange ways

How does the (sick) body relate to a world in ruin? In this performance, Ika Schwander explores voluntary and involuntary transformation, stasis, pain and illness. 

The inspiration for this performance by Ika is Julia Butterfly Hill: the climate activist who lived for 738 days in a century-old sequoia tree as a protest against deforestation. Prior to her successful protest, she had to recover from a car accident at a young age. In this performance, Ika collaborates with Brazilian choreographer and performer Marcelo Evelin.

French-Dutch performer and director Ika Schwander (1999) prefers to work at the border of different disciplines. She makes visual performances, films and performative installations, often starting from the transcendental state of her being. Her work explores concepts around trauma, caring, ecology and death. 

in 2023, Ika showed the Cement Production è vero è vero è vero at our festival, which was also her graduation performance for the performance course at the Maastricht Drama Academy.

A Frascati Production, in coproduction with CAMPO Arte Contemporânea