Arno Schuitemaker

Work

After After

A performance about the exhilarating power of (re)creation. Seven dancers inherit the fractures of a disintegrating world, held by its last horizon – a single strip of light in a space that has lost its edges. Then they claim a white canvas, a blank page, to craft another.



After After sets a double meaning in motion: re‑creation (the deliberate act of making anew) and recreation (leisure and play). This fertile duality fuels the work as it confronts an era that feels spent and near – if not past – its limits. What if the after is already here? As systems of relentless extraction exhaust people and planet, that question is our chance to rewrite the rules. Can recreation, forged by the labour of re‑creating, build our language for what’s next?

After After makes this speculation physical. The body becomes the narrator in an exploration of how making anew can open onto communal joy. 



First: unmaking. The performance chooses an ending before it chooses a beginning.
 The horizon turns.

Polyphony takes the stage. Bringing together their individual voices and ways of moving, the dancers create a sensual, euphoric playground. Frame by frame, they fold care into their collective agency. Here, touch is a public, radical practice; gestures become repair. Call it the faultline effect: each slight shift in weight, attention or glance releases force. The game changes. With increasing fluidity, they alchemize across styles. And the performance erupts with fiery energy.

A cathartic dance at the crossroads of time.

Press
Arno Schuitemaker demonstrates his mastery of transformation in After After with a new composition by Aart Strootman and an exquisite lighting design by Jean Kalman. — Critic's Choice (Theaterkrant)

They should measure the effect of After After: plenty of space and energy coursing through your body as a spectator (…) It’s exhilarating to be part of that. — De Groene Amsterdammer

After After hypnotizes. — Het Parool

Find the performance dates and credits by scrolling down.

Photo: Peteris Viksna

Photo: Nina Durdević

Photo: Nina Durdević

Photo: Peteris Viksna

Photo: Nina Durdević

Photo: Nina Durdević

Photo: Nina Durdević

Photo: Nina Durdević

Photo: Nina Durdević

Photo: Peteris Viksna

Calendar

Credits

Creation: Arno Schuitemaker
Performers: Jim Buskens, Camilla Bundel, Ashley Ho, Frederik Kaijser, Orla McCarthy, Angelo Petracca and Paolo Yao
Dramaturgy: Miguel A. Melgares
Music: Aart Strootman
Light design: Jean Kalman
Scenography: Jean Kalman, Arno Schuitemaker
Costumes: SADAK
Technical production: Vincent Beune, Ruben Lijbers, Sander Schaart
Rehearsal assistant: Mark Christoph Klee
Vocal coach: Maria Magdalena Kozłowska
Production: Björn van Raaij, Lynn Gommes
Publicity: Jannes Heidinga
Photos: Peteris Viksna

The movement vocabulary is created in collaboration with the performers.

After After is a production of SHARP/ArnoSchuitemaker and is supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Ammodo, Fonds 21, and BNG Cultuurfonds. With many thanks to Julidans/ITA.