Kintsugi is the Japanese tradition that entails repairing broken porcelain with golden glue. Subsequently, the object will not look “as good as new”. Instead, the cracks are accentuated. In this music-theatrical ritual, the Japanese tradition is a metaphor for the emotional healing that is essential to trauma processing. How can we repair ourselves? How do we handle our own and other people’s pain?

The politics of the body take central stage in Tom Jaspers’ work. He applies research into our relationship with our body into a music-theatrical piece using preverbal voice techniques, newly written texts, and music that enables the performers’ body and voice to venture off the beaten theatre and opera track.

“At O., you’ll be the first to see tomorrow’s big names. Tom is such a maker. We believe him to be a gigantic talent; his first production, KINTSUGI, proves our point.” – Guy Coolen (artistiek directeur O.)