NIEUW DAKOTA AT LOWLANDS

This summer, you won't only find us at NDSM, but we're also shaking things up in Biddinghuizen during Lowlands! Together with artists Mette Sterre and Kexin Hao, we've put together a series of specially developed performance programs.⁠

Gold Star Ratio

You sometimes hear stories that robots will eventually take over our civilization. Mette Sterre isn't afraid of this. In her sculptures and costumes, she seeks to connect with new technologies. She plays with DIY prosthetics and explores where the human body ends and the non-human begins. Does that boundary even exist? And if so, can it perhaps be shifted? Inspired by philosopher Gilles Deleuze's theory of the body-without-organs and the ordered chaos of golden stars. Go in search of your inner Gold Rush.

Daily at 22:00 at X-Ray.

How to catch an octopus in a broken heart

Meditative tube beauty. What you see is this: 200 meters of inflatable tubes in festive gray. In between them, a dancer who at one moment struggles with the tubes and the next moment is swallowed by them. What does it mean? That's up to you to decide. Perhaps the title offers some guidance. According to artist and octopus fan Mette Sterre, the heart is the only human organ that deforms when its owner's mental state changes. Feel free to ponder this. Or would you rather go for the meditative experience? Just do it.

Daily at 20:00 at X-Ray.

Total Body Workout

The dance lesson that stays in your body forever. When you hear music, you want to dance, and every music genre has its own movements. They knew this in Mao's China too. Political slogans were set to music, and specific maneuvers were paired with them. This way, the ideology literally imprinted itself on your body. China-born Kexin Hao explores in 'Total Body Workout' how muscle memory is shaped by the era you live in. Feel free to join in her aerobics class. You can always leave the class, but will the class ever leave you?

Daily at 20:30 and 22:45 at X-Ray.