Magnitude is a quest to find one’s own volume ⎯ not too big, not too small. With a constantly transforming body and her guitar, Annabel Koele moves through surreal landscapes, drawing the audience into her search. A burning desire emerges to carve out space. As a woman inhabiting her own body, she dialogues with the room she finds herself in, shifting perspectives on space and body. Balancing a playful lightness that can suddenly tip into danger, Magnitude is an open invitation into a world of shifting images.
17 October, 21h30
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Ticket purchase grants entry to Magnitude, by Annabel Koele, and Clap & Slap, by Agniete Lisičkinaite & Igor Shugaleev. Both pieces will take place on the same day, in a double-bill format.
Age ration 16 years old
Duration 30 min.
Free tickets upon reservation via the Montemor-o-Novo Municipality’s BOL platform or at the Tourist Office.
This creation includes nudity, and the spoken language will be English, with Portuguese subtitles.
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A co-production with Cineteatro Curvo Semedo and in partnership with Aerowaves - Dance Across Europe, a network co-funded by the European Union.
© Bart Grietens
© Bart Grietens
© Bart Grietens
© Bart Grietens
Credits
Performance, creation and concept
Annabel Koele
Artistic advisor
Fleur van den Berg
Music
Annabel Koele
Musical Reference
We Are, by India.Arie
With the support of
Via Rudolphi, Academie voor Theater en Dans, Timon Persoon, Tim van Dongen
Photography
Bart Grietens
Annabel Koele (1996) is a performer, physical theatre artist, dancer and creator based in Amsterdam. After graduating from Codarts University in 2017, she performed across Europe before deepening her exploration of physical performance at the Mime Opleiding in Amsterdam. Merging dance and Dutch Mime, she creates work that moves between bodily sculpture and performance, using surreal and absurd imagery to unfold layered, poetic reflections on identity and presence. With a sense of musicality, timing, and spatial composition, her ongoing research delves into womanhood, the negotiation of space, and the concept of volume. Her physical work challenges perceptions of time, space, and the human body.