the performance

We will be abstract, bestial, cruel, perverse, ridiculous, subtle, vulgar and fraudulent. We will reject our mortality and stay. This is a momentary pleasure. Life is here and now. We are here, and now we live. Excessively, until we drop. This has everything and nothing to do with paradise. Ecstasy, vanity and erotic surrender. Everything is artifice, everything is real.

Lost is My Quiet Forever is my conscious misinterpretation of a possible baroque opera. For the first time I work with singers on stage: the countertenor Maurits Musch and the (pop-soprano) singer Monica Page. This is the last part of a trilogy, after The Exact Position of Things (2005) and Enter Ghost (2006). In this new work I examine qualities associated with the baroque period in their relevance for my fascinations in theatre today. Theatricality, abundance, overflow, celebration, sorrow and mainly the contradiction between reason and passion is at the base of this work. We are attempting to distort the edges of a reflective distance and attempt to deviate beyond rational boundaries. Together with five performers and two singers I am searching for bodily forms to express ideas of instability, unpredictability, struggle and extreme emotions in relation to their function and effect on both performer and spectator.

the people involved

Idea/Choreography Nicole Beutler

Dramaturgy Igor Dobricic

Made in collaboration with the performers and singers
Katy Hernan, Hester van Hasselt, Pedro Inés, Niels Kuiters, Aimar Peréz Galí, Monica Page (soprano), Maurits Musch (countertenor)

Artistic assistance Esther Snelder

Trainee Giulio d’Anna

Music Gary Shepherd (DJ/Composer) and Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Costumes Jessica Helbach

Lighting design Minna Tiikkainen

Lighting assistant and technique Martin Kaffarnik

Graphic design Connie Nijman

Photography Anja Beutler

Performance video Videomachas (Susanna Brenner, Helle Lyshoj)

Production Nadine Zijp, Dorothea Sinnema (until 2008), Josta Obbink (from 2009)

Publicity Eline Groeneweg

Management Inge Koks (until 2008), Janine Dijkmeijer (from 2009)

With many thanks to David Weber-Krebs, Steve Green, Nina Hitz, Cora Schmeiser
Made with the financial support of AFK, NFPK+ and the Norma Fonds
A LISA production.

the press

‘An immersive experience, right from the start. (…) It is especially remarkable how Beutler taps into the natural qualities of her performers, such as when Hester van Hasselt’s cries seem so genuine: bringing rhythm, shivers down the spine and, in combination with her movements, powerfully beautiful imagery. (…) The dazzling costumes, the music that opens up the space so completely, the atmospheric lighting and the subtlest touch of humour combine to make Lost is My Quiet Forever is a most satisfying conclusion to her trilogy.’ 
Leonie Kuipers, 8 Weekly.nl


‘Beutler skilfully translates the most essential matters into subtle movements and images. (…) Remarkably enough, it is the music of Purcell in particular that touches the heart, with its reflections on desire, lost loves and loneliness.’ Miriam van der Linden, Volkskrant

photo’s

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Choreographer: Nicole Beutler
Photographer: Anja Beutler
Performer : Hester van Hasselt(
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Choreographer: Nicole Beutler
Photographer: Anja Beutler
Performers: Monica Page, Maurits Musch(
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Choreographer: Nicole Beutler
Photographer: Anja Beutler
Performer: Niels Kuiters
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Choreographer: Nicole Beutler
Photographer: Anja Beutler
Performers: Niels Kuiters, Hester van Hasselt, Aimar Peréz Galí
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