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GET A GRIP (2025) is an experimental project with dancer Meriç Tuncer inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet. Multiple sculptures, three colours – Yellow, Pink and Black -, three music arrangements, three acts – Act One Yellow, Act Two Pink, Act Three Black – and a lot of experimentation and improvisation happened at Expo Bart.

I invited Meriç to try to bring my sculptures to life. Can a sculpture be a dancer, or perhaps a choreographer? What happens when touching sculptures is allowed? I gave the sculptures holes and ceramic climbing holds. In this way, I tried to entice the dancer to enter into a relationship with the sculptures. He could carry them, climb inside them, and drag them. I wore clothing with climbing holds and became one of the sculptures, engaging in contact improvisation. The audience was allowed to participate and touch.

Read the interview with Maarten Buser on Metropolis M: Durf aan te raken.

Photo 1: Jitske de Vries
Photo’s: Robin Meyer
Video: Koen Kivits.