Fringe: I WOULD RATHER FLY THAN DIE

Rick Wardenier
Fri 5 Sep ’25 - Wed 10 Sep ’25
We all die… Every. Single. One of us.
Fri 5 Sep ’25
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Wed 10 Sep ’25

This performance is a last dance. A last attempt at avoiding the inevitable. Rick’s last chance to embrace himself. In a poetic and physical way, he tries to escape his own spine. In October 2025 he will undergo surgery for scoliosis. 

Rick creates this performance on the eve of his surgery for fearful pessimists in particular. In an abstract surgical theater with a floating balloon, He will be tied to his own dark fantasies. With Coke Zero as an anesthetic, cheese onion chips as his medication and live music by Antonia Keersmaekers which will portray his biggest fear: death. 

  • Duration: 35 mins.
  • Language: Dutch
  • Podiumpas not valid for Fringe performances

Credits

concept and performance Rick Wardenier live music Antonia Keersmaekers dramaturgie Christiaan den Dulk production Nanne Walkate costume BLYSS a special thanks to Victor Wardenier, Robin van Dijk met de steun van Janivo Stichting, Stichting Another Shot, Stichting Pieternel, Stichting Het Amsterdamsche Fonds en Zwoll&Mol 

About Rick Wardenier

Rick Wardenier (2002) graduated from the Amsterdam Academy of Theater and Dance. His performances are oftentimes absurd and poetic. Visual language is an important starting point in his work from which he wants to challenge the audience to use their own imagination.  
 
In Amsterdam he met Antonia Keersmaekers with whom he has since been collaborating. Together they founded Zwoll&Mol. As creators, by using physical improvisations in which they take to the floor themselves, they try to pull the utmost out of each other. The farmlands of Overijssel and the Belgian frietkot melted together. 

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