NOW WE ARE EARTH / An Orchestra is an immersive, musical and visual dance opera. An ultimate, pulsating, balancing act between five kingdoms: animal, human, plant, fungus and technology. Dancers and performers, together with a local choir of song lovers from Rotterdam, create an eco-futuristic chorus for greater cohesion. A happening brought to life by everyone in the room together. 

In collaboration with five artistic partners, choreographer and theatre maker Nicole Beutler designed a gesamtkunstwerke. The dancers build fragile balancing acts with each other, with objects and their surroundings in a search for harmony. The choir takes over the dancers’ voices and bounces them back – like ebb and flow. A resounding together with the shared inexhaustible energy of the sun.

The piece celebrates connectedness on earth and brings together performers of diverse ages, cultures and backgrounds. Under the inspired direction of young composer Timo Tembuyser and the electronic beats of Gary Shepherd, a hopeful outlook for the balance of this planet emerges. 

TRILOGY: RITUALS OF TRANSFORMATION (towards a new humanity)

For this third and final part of the trilogy RITUALS OF TRANSFORMATION (towards a new humanity), Nicole Beutler Projects joins forces with international partners: Berlin’s Dance On Ensemble, a company for dancers over 40, with Opera Ballet Flanders, / VONK and Opera2Day, who are shaping the local city choir.

Whereas in the first part, GINKGO or: 56 million years ago there were palm trees on the North Pole, we said goodbye to the man-made world, and nature regained its breath in part two, ATMEN/ evolution is silently unfolding (O. 2024), in this final piece we search for a new balance between the earthly elements. The show can be experienced independently, but it is also part of a bigger picture that offers hope for a sustainable future for humanity.