ASTRID BOONS

Deep Time is an exploration and deconstruction of time and the limits of adaptation, set in a parallel dimension that emerges as a resonance of our real world. Three performers shape-shift, each carrying multilayered identities, becoming landscape, material, and living beings. These multiple interconnections invite the audience into a world that redefines traditional human hierarchies and structures, where all beings and materials coexist through challenges and complex encounters. Deep Time is an invitation to reflect on our ability to actively reimagine the world, and to question the limits of our adaptability.

Astrid Boons (1988, Belgium), is a choreographer and performer, and artistic leader with an international career across creation, performance, and mentorship. She is the founder and artistic director of Khôra / Astrid Boons, a foundation and platform for interdisciplinary creation and international collaboration, where she leads projects that unite choreographic research, artistic collaboration, and production strategy. Known in the European dance scene for her emotionally demanding pieces and her strongly embodied states, Boons’ creations offer a space to deeply experience the body as the site of boundaries and expansion between us and the world. She creates work with a distinctive female perspective foregrounding the subjective connectivity as a form of resistance, together with the continuous search for personal agency.

Choreography, concept, direction Astrid Boons / Dancers Karolina Szymura, Spencer Dickhaus, Reiko Ohta / Composition Miguelángel Clerc Parada / Dramaturgy Eva Martinez / Light design Fudetani Ryoya, Lisette van der Linden, Astrid Boons / Costume design Bregje Van Balen / Researchers Prof. Dr. Henk Hoekstra, Dr. Tamara de GrootMPhil, Dr. Bernadette of Heel MSc , Miguelángel Clerc Parada PhD / / Executive production Gerard Sangrà / Distribution Amy Josh  
Production Khôra / Astrid Boons in coproduction with Korzo and SHIFFT (in the context of iCoDaCo, co-founded by the European Union) / Supported by Impulstanz (in het kader van Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found, co-founded by the European Union), c o r s o, DansBrabant / Made possible by Gemeente Den Haag, Fonds 21, the Cultuurfonds (thanks to Pruijt, Prins Beeld and Dansfonds), NORMA fonds, Gravin van Bylandt Stichting, Fonds Podiumkunsten (in context of Fast Forward program)