Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 teams up with theater group DOX
The Center for Science and Culture (CWC) is joining forces with theater group DOX this theater season. Scientists inspire theater makers and contribute to educational programs around performances. This way, we make schoolchildren more familiar with science.
Production platform DOX develops provocative and refreshing performances for young audiences. They create performances especially for secondary schools and theaters throughout the Netherlands. The CWC functions as a matchmaker between scientists and the theme of the performance. We contribute to DOX's educational programs with explainer videos and by having experts participate in Q&A鈥檚 after the performance. In this way, the university stimulates dialogue between scientists and young people. Would you like to know more about this unique collaboration? Then email programmer Erwin Maas via e.j.w.m.maas[at]uu.nl.
Birds
We kick off the collaboration with a contribution to the educational program of the performance 'Birds'. In this 12+ performance full of dance, spoken word and music, award-winning choreographer and dancer Dalton Jansen depicts the difficult road to adulthood of young people living in a youth care facility. How do you deal with the future when you haven't had a safe nest? Are you ready for society? And is society ready for you?
Through the performance Birds, I give a voice to young people in a youth care facility
With youth psychiatrist and researcher Fleur Velders (UMC Utrecht) we recorded a short explainer video for the education program (see below). She and her colleagues , , and will take turns at some of the after-parties.
Birds is an honest, raw performance about a youth in youth care (5 stars)
Required material for youth care workers
Agenda
Would you like to see the performance? On Thursday, May 2 in Podium Hoge Woerd and on Thursday, May 16 in the Stadsschouwburg Utrecht you can see the performance in or close to Utrecht. But as said, Birds plays all over the country.
Meer theater en wetenschap?
On Monday, April 23, during the before summer, cultural anthropologist Dr. Yvon van der Pijl explores with theater-makers how our understanding of death is always in flux. This event is in Dutch. 鈥楧e Futuristen鈥檌s a unique combination of interview and theater, in which writers and theater makers translate the vision of a high-profile guest into a performance in one day. The Futurists is organized by Studium Generale, in collaboration with the Nieuw Utrechts Toneel and is made possible by the Descartes Centre (UU) and het Cultuurfonds.