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Chiara Pastoor | Slow but steady | Music
Chiara Pastoor (1995) is an interdisciplinary creator. In her work she combines singing, writing, film and photography. During this THINX edition, Chiara shares some songs from her upcoming performance Slowly but steadily. Slow but Steady is a cinematic music performance that deals with themes of mourning and loss, sexual violence and bodily autonomy.

Peer Roosen | Gendertocht | Spoken Word
The performance Gendertocht (working title) is about gender identity and the quest that comes with it. About how a first step vooruit changes your view of your own past, how it creeps into your body and works its way towards discomfort and choice stress. The performance moves between spoken word and storytelling, between personal stories and material created from interviews with people who, like Peer, do not identify with the binary gender options.

Bas van de Ven | De Koning Is Stervende | Muziektheater
An old man gradually loses control of his body and mind, but refuses to accept it. Frantically he tries to keep himself upright, while his body visibly rebels. From the shadows he is controlled by his wife, who guides him in this process. This musical performance is based on The King is Dying by Eugène Ionesco. Little remains of the original language, just some mumbling and murmuring. The material is used to explore an absurd, intense and physical style of play in which humor and tragedy are close together.

Bas van de Ven is a director and musician and has past event with THINX for a year now. His performances are often small universes with their own atmosphere and logic, sometimes humorous and sometimes penetrating. The play is uncompromising, expressive, disarming and close to the skin of the audience.

Anne Leijdekkers | Visual theater
Anne Leijdekkers is a visual theater maker and scenographer. In a multidisciplinary way she investigates the relationship between man and environment. In her THINX research she focuses on the functionality and theatricality of a lamppost for the Parktheater, object 'Dr. Schaepmanlaan 004'. Outside, this lamppost serves passersby. But inside, in the theater hall less than fifty meters away, it can show another part of itself. The pragmatic gaze, the public space, and the imaginative gaze, the theater, interact and question each other.

Inez Wouters | La Piratesse
La Piratesse is the performance band of creative all-rounder Inez Wouters. Inez approaches her songs as visual live clips and uses the play to protest and activate the audience. In each song, she transforms into a different character, always with a matching extravagant outfit. She takes her audience through her thoughts, questions and dreams about the present and the future. During her THINX trajectory, Inez focuses on a costume. She wants to create a visual transformation that takes place on the spot, a wearable creation that blows itself up, decays, crumbles and melts, then the remains take new forms and grow into a new wearable creation.

Anastasia Russkikh and Fleur de Decker | Proxy
Proxy' reveals how two female bodies often function as buffers. Like a sea of momentum - where countless particles move simultaneously - the dancers show how bodies constantly absorb and redistribute energy in an unstable system. Anastasia Russkikh and Fleur de Decker are both dancers graduates of Fontys Dance Arts in Context and together they explore the intersections of waving and electro urban styles during their residency at THINX.