Playing a game might be nice at first, but as we see in playgrounds, rules of the game are constantly changing. Are we even playing by the rules from the beginning? An innocent game can easily turn into a rough fight with our closest ones.
Whilst playing a game, we’re trying to extend our limits in order to receive an inner feeling of satisfaction - just like kids experience when running around in a playground. Nothing is impossible in the playground. You can do what you want to do and be whoever you want to be.
Will you try breaking the rules of the playground?
From funny behavior to sexual desires, situations of cruelty to childhood memories.
Choreographer: Martijn Joling
Performers: Alice Gaspari, Andrea Schuler, Bettina Bölkow,
Nao Tokuhashi, Sara Angius, Tillmann Becker
Yuya Fujinami
Costume: Britta Bremer
Light design: Harry Heutink
Dramaturg: Philipp Amelungsen
Technician: Harry Heutin
Assistant: Gaelle Morello, Amy Pender
Photography by: Andreas J. Etter
Premiere: Kleines haus,
Staatsteater Braunschweig, Germany
Created for Staatstheater Braunschweig
The third edition of ''Young Choreographers" Martijn Joling provides the most moving contributions and a lot of head cinema. He provides the furious finale. His expansive "Limitless" serves as a reflection of the brutalization of morals in a society that is falling apart. He cultivates the contrasts in Manga aesthetics - gentle and hard, kisses and punches - and then compresses it into a real and authentic roller coaster ride of becoming an adult. André Pause | Theatre critic at Unser38
What would you not want to do on a stage?'', This is what Martijn Joling asked the ensemble, explaining about the beginning of his process. He wishes his dancers to explore their borders.. At the same time he is interested in an inner satisfaction like what children experience when playing. "Limitless" is his first ensemble work. Christoph Braun | Braunschweiger Zeitung
At the public after talk, Joachim Klement stated; "Limitless does not only challenge the limits of the dancers, but also breaks the limitation of set choreography by using a free structure." Joachim Klement | Head of Staatstheater Braunschweig