EXPRESSIVE DANCE PERFORMANCE ON CONFRONTATIONAL TRASH HEAP

After its success at Oerol Festival 2024, the dance and musical theatre performance returns Waste Me back in a theatre version. On Friday 14 March at 20:15, co-producers Maas theatre and dance and Cecilia Moisio Company will celebrate the premiere of the theatre tour at Maaspodium, Rotterdam. Waste Me by choreographer and theatre-maker Cecilia Moisio, is a robust commentary on the consumer society getting out of control. In a set consisting of trash, Moisio makes a firm plea to consureduce. Waste Me will tour nationwide from March to May 2025.

Welcome to the back of disposable society. Five performers crawl out of a huge pile of rubbish. They discard stuff, waste and each other. They become stuff, the stuff is their life. Factory movements and herd behaviour alternate. Is it Utopia or have they entered hell? They are waiting for something, a redemption, a new world. Can they free themselves from this self-made prison?

Cecilia Moisio takes you to a dystopian world, a timeless place where we see the results of our consuming behaviour. Waste Me is set in a confrontational setting, where an immense rubbish mountain symbolises the amount of waste a European throws away every year.

The show takes a critical look at how consumerism changes our psyché and behaviour, and what this means for our self-esteem and esteem by others. Waste Me is a mix of dance, theatre, trash art and live music.

CECILIA MOISIO ABOUT WASHED ME

"Waste Me is about consumer society and our Western throwaway culture. We live in a world of money, mass consumption and, as a result, huge amounts of waste. Waste Me is about the absurdity of constantly buying stuff and the craving for more, more, more. Meanwhile, it has been proven: the more we focus on stuff, the unhappier we are. We see the decay reflected in the economy, as well as in the climate crisis. Do we really need more?

This performance stems from a personal need to do something about it, to start a conversation and create an activist performance.

My movement language actually always finds its origin in my core and emotion, but in Waste Me the special costumes and décor also played a big role. For me, the body plays a big role in this theme anyway. Objectifying the body, appreciating bodies, but also: liberated bodies and their raw expression. It comes back in many ways."

THE PRESS ON WASTE ME (PRIMETIME VERSION)

"Engaged theatre of this level you don't often experience" - -. Theatre newspaper

"The dancers' suppleness and agility manifests itself in an expressive pattern of movement" - -. Theatre newspaper

"Comes as a slap in the face" - Volkskrant

MAKERS

• Concept, choreography, direction: Cecilia Moisio
• Performance: Aaron Faneyte, Bianca Casaburi, Yulia Kalinchenko, Kamil Pilarski, Lester David
• Composer: Lester David
• Set: Marlies Schot, Jerrel Manuël (assistant)
• Video and lighting design: Mark Thewessen
• Text: Aska Hayakawa, Cecilia Moisio and performers
• Costumes: Daphne Karstens, Claudia Pittau (assistant)
• Dramaturgy: Merel Heering
  Technique: Peter Swikker, Andrea Spoor
• Production: Djoeke Westdijk

Co-production: Maas theatre and dance and Cecilia Moisio Company