Between

between my sleeping
and my dreaming
between me and the one in me
who I suppose I am
a river flows without an end

 

Marthe Koning does Fernando Pessoa’s poems in What Pessoa taught me.

Using her voice and body, she interprets his poems. Ranging from unrecognisable growls to a classical recitation. The audience determines the order and the improvisation that goes with it sets the course. She never knows where she starts and where we all end. Pluriformity of identity is her great driving force. She gives voice to the heteronyms from which Pessoa wrote. She brings his philosophy to life by bringing to the fore the boundlessness in herself. Marthe Koning is one of the artists detheatermaker supports. During this residency, she examines how to connect a certain continuity and flow with new things.

Shared Practices, Shared Research – A residency in collaboration with Corso, detheatermaker, Mestizo Arts Platform, Monty and Rataplan. With support from the Flemish Government and Arenberg.