Two unknowns turn out to be connected via a shared colonial past. What begins as discomfort, grows from to a journey through generations of silence and trauma.
Musical performance along the traces of Indonesia's colonial history
Two strangers meet each other, by chance or perhaps also not. There is something that them in inexplicable wijze to each other towards each other pulls. Already soon it turns out that their families already generations with each other connected are. Not by love or friendship, but by a fraught past. The one comes from a line of rulers, the other from a history of resistance. What begins as distance and discomfort, grows from to a journey through generations of silence and passed on trauma. There is resistance, confrontation and pain, but also a attempt for understanding. For how do you further if the past still in your body resides?
Dawn Collective hits for 'Where silence speaks' the hands together with &Brakema Productions - the company of theater producer and director Liliane Brakema - and choreographer Cheroney Pelupessy. The fruit of their collaboration is a compelling, musical performance along the tracks of the colonial history of Indonesia.
