Vlogster Anna takes you into her life through social media while the war breaks out. You look at her on a telephone screen while you are sitting in an enclosed space. Dark and light alternate. There is colored light and different sounds can be heard. Birds that whistle, gunshots that sound.
The special performance ‘Dans Dans Revolution’ can be seen in the new Kolk in Assen in the coming days. Based on the book by writer Lisa Weeda, she tells Anna’s story. “She lives in the fictional country of Besulia, where war breaks out. Via Vlogs she shows the age -old tradition of the population to dance and thus dispel evil,” says theater maker Peter van Til. Together with his brother Mathijs, he developed this theater piece.
“While the enemy is getting closer, Anna, together with her grandmother’s instructional videos, creates protector against evil, the number of followers continues to grow, and the revolution is increasingly shared in real-time, until the enemy is literally coming.”
The Til brothers use videos on a mobile phone that brings the virtual world and the real world together. “The phone puts you in the spotlight as a visitor and light comes from that puts visitors in the spotlight,” says Mathijs van Til. “The freedom we have here is fantastic. We can hardly imagine what the threat of no longer is safe in your own house. And with this installation we try to make that feeling a bit tangible.”
Dans Dans Revolution can be seen in the context of eighty years of freedom and does other cities in addition to Assen.