Ibrahim Quraishi's "My private Himalya" sparkles by omitting drama

by Fransien van der Putt
25 April 201229 March 2022
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Een tentje dat voor zeeanemoon op het droge mag spelen, de vier pootjes parmantig in de lucht. Acteurs die een kopje thee drinken en een potje kaarten. Het oogt allemaal heel onschuldig. Wat begint als een wonderlijke fotoroman groeit stilaan uit tot een rebus van aanzienlijke lengte. "My private Himalaya" heeft veel weg van een wandelende tentoonstelling, met een windmachine in de rol van de grote 'curator'. Vadertje Tijd blaast uiteindelijk alle beelden op één grote, desolate en indifferente h...

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Fransien van der Putt

Fransien van der Putt is a dramaturge and critic. She works with Lana Coporda, Vera Sofia Mota, Roberto de Jonge, João Dinis Pinho & Julia Barrios de la Mora and Branka Zgonjanin, among others. She writes about dance and theatre for Cultural Press Agency, Theatererkrant and Dansmagazine. Between 1989 and 2001, she mixed text as sound at Radio 100. Between 2011 and 2015, she developed a minor for the BA Dance, Artez, Arnhem - on artistic processes and own research in dance. Within her work, she pays special attention to the significance of archives, notation, discourse and theatre history in relation to dance in the Netherlands. Together with Vera Sofia Mota, she researches the work of video, installation and peformance artist Nan Hoover on behalf of www.li-ma.nl.View Author posts

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