A five-hour happening where bodies lose shape. You wander, dissolve into the crowd and re-emerge somewhere unfamiliar. There are no fixed seats. Follow the heat or sink into a corner and watch everything unfold.
HOLOBIONT is a subversive playground: part collective ritual, part anarchic dance floor. A gathering of performers, clitty wigs, smeared makeup and glitter that will mysteriously reappear in unexpected places. Here, bodies, labels and expectations collapse. In the chaos, something new emerges: a temporary community where bodies, genders and identities are free.
An immersive landscape of queer performers claiming fluidity. Bodies transform in real time: tucked live in the open, breasts bound and reshaped, waists cinched tight, faces wiped off and rebuilt again. Performance, video, text, music, dance and drag melt into one continuous field of transformation. An invitation to meet the unknown in yourself and others. And dance together.
In each city, HOLOBIONT connects with local queer and trans communities through collaboration with the hosting theater. Workshops open space for meeting, knowledge sharing, and artistic exchange. Local performers also step onto the HOLOBIONT stage, making every performance a living, breathing remix shaped by the voices and bodies of the city.
Credits
Concept / Artistic direction: Jef Van Gestel, Suzan Boogaerdt, Bianca van der Schoot
Performers: Rita Bifulco, Suzan Boogaerdt, Sjaid Foncé, Ayrton Fraenk, Jef Van Gestel, Barnaby Savage, Mara Snip, Isadora Tomasi
Local Guest Performers: t.b.a.
Scenography advisor: Wikke en Marloes
Video design: Daan Hazendonk
Light design: Julian Maiwald