OTION - Master of Sceneries
(The Netherlands, 1987) studied musical theatre and contemporary dance at Codarts in Rotterdam. His compositions include music for the Ulrike Quade Company's theatre production De Foetushemel (Foetus Heaven, 2023), the National Theatre's Tijd Zal Ons Leren (Time Will Teach Us, 2023), and for the exhibition Continue This Thread (2023). His band OTION and the Submarines debuted at the 2023 Opera Forward Festival with the show Ripple. His ceremonial performances fuse dance, music, singing, storytelling and the artistic space.
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Warriors! Heroes from Suriname and the Caribbean
Warriors! is an ode in spoken word, music, dance and stories to people from Suriname and the Caribbean who risked their lives to fight for freedom. Heroes from our colonial past that resisted oppression and a lack of freedom. Stories that were previously ignored, made invisible or hidden away. Now, more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery, many stories are emerging, but there also remain many stories that must be told about warriors from the past and warriors of the present.
Gershwin Bonevacia, Dean Bowen, Julien Ignacio, Raj Mohan and OTION - Master of Sceneries presented their own work. In a conversation with presenter Shantie Singh, Karin Amatmoekrim talked about the writer Anil Ramdas, about whom she recently published the biography In wat voor land leef ik eigenlijk? (What Kind of Country Do I Live In, Anyway?).
Tip: Shantie Singh also created Her (s)tories, a theatrical ode to women in Hindustani migration history, which was performed on Friday 12 January 2024 at Theater aan het Spui, The Hague.
