Photo: Rahi Rezvani
FIFTEEN MINUTES – 2024
“… a show which aims to say something about human consumption behaviour, which will lead to the demise of the planet.
Yuka Hisamatsu’s playful light construction with illuminated spheres makes FIFTEEN MINUTES a beautiful spatial and landscape experience.”
(Het Parool – Theatrekrant)
FIFTEEN MINUTES toured with Nederlands Dans Theater 2 as part of The Beauty of it All, proudly sharing the stage with Jiří Kylián’s 27’52″ and Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16.
Concept & Direction: Maxine Doyle
Choreography: Maxine Doyle in collaboration with Gabrielle Nankivell & the dancers of NDT2
Music: Cassie Kinoshi
Lighting Design & Scenograph: Yuka Hisamatsu
Costume: Bregje van Balen
Dancers: Maša Anić, Conner Chew, Úrsula Urgeles Gonzales, Ruth Lee, Casper Mott, Omani Ormskirk, Nathanaël Plantier, Rebecca Speroni, Nova Valkenhoff, Samuel van der Veer
ASTEROID
One upon a time we were beautiful celestial creatures flying towards the earth; falling from the stars.
Weightless
Massless
Breathless
We were falling souls. We were blue dots. We were creation. We were the beginning.
Then we started to consume. We gathered flesh and we got fat. Fat cats gorging on the planet. The planet became our double MAC and cheese with an extra-large side of skinny fat fries and ketchup.
We forgot about the stars and the beauty of the skies.
We dived into the oceans and we ripped them up. We mined them out. We drained and drank of all their delicious darkness so we could fly and dance towards the stars in our mechanical birds.
And then the planet got cross. And it started to scream. And our celestial bodies started to crash into the earth and we started to drown in our own shit.
Shit.
And the stars started to shine so brightly that our eyes started to hurt and our retinas started to burn.
Burn out.
We were burning out.
We fell like the damned into a plastic cesspit of our own creation.
I can’t breath
I can’t see or smell or hear any beauty
I am choking on the micros
Please
Please
Please
Rip out the plastic straws from my nostrils, from my mouth, from underneath my fins and fingernails
Superhero rip off the band aid and look up.
Catch the asteroid in your superhumanity before it crashes and burns.
Cradle the planet like a new-born babe.
Lick up its innocence.
Treasure it.
– Maxine Doyle

Dancer: Samuel van der Veer. Photo: Rahi Rezvani

FIFTEEN MINUTES Photo: Rahi Rezvani

FIFTEEN MINUTES Photo: Rahi Rezvani

Dancer: Úrsula Urgeles Gonzales. Photo: Rahi Rezvani

FIFTEEN MINUTES photo: Sacha Grootjans

FIFTEEN MINUTES Photo: Rahi Rezvani

FIFTEEN MINUTES photo: Sacha Grootjans

FIFTEEN MINUTES Photo: Rahi Rezvani