Program Fira B! 2024
Head in the clouds
United Cowboys
Cabeza en las nubes. (Head in the clouds) is an intimate performance, build up in an installation, where wool is covering the floor, but also the roof. Dancer(s) and audience are captured in this cloudy, embracing environment. Through the wool on top (the “clouds”), constantly moving light is shining, as if the sun breaks through. The dancer(s) is wading across the piles of wool on the floor; the soft material, little bit itchy, but willing to be moved, taken, to cover the dancer or handed to the audience, that is sitting around, close-by; it can (almost) touch both wool and dancer.
Cabeza en las nubes takes you along a mini biotope, an almost self contained atmosphere; it makes us realise how proximity to earth and nature can contribute to another way of thinking. The dancer(s) increases this by taking the audience along in movement, energy, and form. The body in relation to material; people in relation to cosmos.
Cabeza en las nubes is a very sustainable performance; we derive the wool from a local sheep farmer and the wool can be re-used afterwards; we travel light, we make the construction on site, we leave no trails…
Technical specifications
Concept & direction: Pauline Roelants & Maarten van der Put
Live sound: Pauline Roelants
Video: Maarten van der Put & Oscar van der Put
Dancer: Eulàlia Bergadà
United Cowboys
Genre: dance
WE ARE UNITED COWBOYS.
We welcome, challenge and thrive through artistic risk.
United Cowboys is a live-art collective of international artists under the guidance of the artistic directors Pauline Roelants and Maarten van der Put. Inspired by a variety of art forms, United Cowboys creates multidisciplinary performances on the edge of dance, performance, music, video and installation art, that can be experienced in theatres, at festivals, on site-specific locations or in museums.
We run an art house in the centre of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in which we present new developments in the field of live-art. Under the title Body as Reference for (R)Evolution, we collaborate with international partners co-creating monumental performances, site-specific work, duration pieces, we call Biotopes, inviting local artists and audiences to experience new methodologies and perspectives.
“We explore unique environments, and investigate the fine lines between generosity and exhibitionism. We challenge our audience by asking it to take responsibility in decision-making, and therefore crafting their own individual experiences.”
