Rosa Doornenbal
Will We Believe? Performance
Set in a magical atmosphere, this captivating performance by Rosa Doornenbal takes the audience on a journey through shifting identities and the quest for belief. In ‘Will we Believe?’ Rosa works and performs together with Dino Desica and Natalie Price Hafslund, at once blurring the lines between personal history and reality, revealing the tension between control and surrender. As expectations are upended, the audience is drawn into a mesmerizing dance of illusion and reality, exploring who truly owns the narrative of this piece.
The Will to Believe, film
'The Will to Believe' delves into the captivating psychodramas and antics of Victor Lustig, a magician with grand illusions. Straddling the delicate line between reality and imagination, Viktor is guided by the enigmatic riddles of a human rabbit, navigating his existential journey through moments of triumph and despair, belief and skepticism. This film explores how we interpret the world around us, crafting hope, expectations, and our identities. With a script woven from a tapestry of films, TV shows, books, and quotes, "The Will to Believe" reveals how cultural myths, popular media, and capitalism shape our self-perception.
Bio
Rosa Doornenbal's work explores personal and collective notions of desirability, morality, and success through the lens of gender and identity. She questions how we can trust our thoughts and dreams in a socio-political landscape influenced by neoliberal ideology. Embracing vulnerability and the uncanny, she pushes her work to absurdity, creating space for unconventional thinking Archetypes play a key role in her narratives, subverting stereotypical ideas of good and evil by drawing on cultural myths and popular media.
Credits Will we Believe?
Concept and direction: Rosa Doornenbal
Creation and performance: Dino Desica, Natalie Price Hafslund, Rosa Doornenbal
Outside Eye: Vincent Riebeek
With special thanks to Sven van Nimwegen
Made possible by Mondriaan Fonds and cultuurfonds.
