ILSNA: Here Be Dragons

Ruth Borg

Thu 8 Oct - Sat 10 Oct

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Thu 8 Oct

Sat 10 Oct

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Thu 8 Oct

19:30

Try-out

Frascati, Amsterdam

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Fri 9 Oct

19:30

Premiere

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 3

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Sat 10 Oct

19:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 3

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On old maps, cartographers would sometimes mark unexplored waters with drawings of sea monsters or the words Here Be Dragons. It meant: beyond this point, we do not know what lies ahead.

In her first Dutch theatre premiere at Frascati, Ruth Borg invites audiences into those uncharted waters. Through music, movement, text and theatre, she explores the moments when the waters we thought we knew begin to move. When someone we love changes, disappears, or becomes someone we no longer recognise. Or when life itself changes form.

For the past years, Ruth's work has circled around love and the ways we relate to one another. With Here Be Dragons, she turns her attention to the dragons we encounter within ourselves, in one another, and in life itself. What happens when we meet something we do not want? How do we practise relating to what feels impossible to love?

Created together with beautiful long-standing collaborators Fleur van den Berg and Jethro Cooke, Here Be Dragons is an invitation to keep sailing when life carries us beyond the edge of the known, when the map falls away and the only way forward is to keep meeting what appears. Perhaps with a little more curiosity.

Language: English
Duration: 120 min.
Premiere: Friday 9 October

Credits

concept, direction and performer Ruth Borg performance, guitarist, musical arrangement Jethro Cooke performer, dramaturg Fleur van den Berg performer, drummer Pete Galea movement support Charlotte Gillain creative producing and production Sanne Vermij photography & design Lisa Attard spatial design Karl Azzoppardi with thanks to my family, Sarah Chircop, Niels Plotard, Toni Gialanze, Mime Fabriek, the audiences who have already been supporting this work for years and in loving memory of Andrew Schembri.

About Ruth Borg

Ruth Borg (1994) was born on the rocky shores of Malta. She is a performer and theatre maker whose work moves between theatre, performance, music, and film.

Her artistic practice is guided by a simple question: how can art help us stay in creative relationship with the parts of life we are most tempted to turn away from? She creates spaces where people can meet grief, love, uncertainty, joy, and transformation together rather than alone. Through intimate performances and participatory gatherings, she invites audiences into experiences that allow versions of ourselves we keep hidden, but long to inhabit, to come out.

For the past three years, Ruth has been part of Het Verbond in Amsterdam. She has also been collaborating with the team of Slow Sex, a movement and practice exploring the art of relating, sexuality, and personal development through spaceholding/facilitating workshops there.

Ruth holds a B.A. (Hons) in Theatre Studies from the University of Malta and a B.A. in Mime from the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam. She has performed in Malta and across Europe with artists and companies including Julian Hetzel, Davy Pieters, Zarah Bracht, Landmarks Collective and more...