Wild Woman – Part I: The Bone Collector

Name: Wild Woman – Part I: The Bone Collector - Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura
Start: 2026-09-19T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Frascati, Amsterdam

Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura

Thu 17 Sep ’26 - Sat 19 Sep ’26

A raw, ritual performance on loss, memory and rebirth.

Thu 17 Sep ’26

Sat 19 Sep ’26

Thu 17 Sep ’26

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

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Fri 18 Sep ’26

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

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Sat 19 Sep ’26

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

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In Wild Woman – Part I: The Bone Collector, Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura descends into an underworld both mythical and physical, where identity, body and voice disintegrate before being rebuilt again from scratch.

Inspired by the character La Loba from Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ "Women Who Run With the Wolves", this Bone Woman collects lost bones and sings them back to life. Not out of nostalgia, but necessity: what has been forgotten must be recalled once again.

The performance starts from a break, with origins, with the maternal body, with ancestral memory. Out of this void an intense process of disintegration, confrontation and transformation unfolds. Wild Woman – Part I: The Bone Collector reveals rebirth not as something soft, but as a process of deconstruction: a descent through chaos, fury and silence, in which the self is stripped down to the bare bones.

Grounded in African spiritual traditions such as Vodun and borne by a hybrid world of sounds made up of Afro-futurism, Afro-punk, metal and rap, a ritual space is created in which past, body and imagination coincide. Live music, trance, physical exhaustion and visual projections draw the audience into an experience that is not just watched, but lived.

A collective confrontation with what has been lost and what continues to exist in the body. A raw, poetic search for voice, body and soul in times of personal and social crisis.

Wild Woman – Part I: The Bone Collector is not simply a story of healing, but of what comes before: breaking, remembering, and reassembling a self that never fully disappeared.

Language: English with Dutch surtitles
Note: considers loud music

Credits

concept, text, direction and performance Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura composition & sound design Edis Pajazetovic, Ruben van Asselt live drums Ruben van Asselt live synths Edis Pajazetovic scenography Morgana Machado Marques, Ariadna Konaškova (intern) lighting design Jan Groenland Dolls design Fay van Erp, Jelena Bondt costume design Tricia Nganga Mokosi visual artist Stan Smeets dramaturge Clarice Gargard physical coaching Milou van Duijnhoven performance coaching Cherish Menzo, Nicole Geertruida vocal coaching Leela May Stockholm, Monica Janssen (Wisselkind) lighting and video Niels Runderkamp sound Marcel Janssen production coordinator Laura Selvi production Via Zuid (2026) & Theater Rotterdam (2027) co-production Likeminds, PLT, Frascati Producties

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In the press

"You want nothing more than to follow her, so generously does she throw herself into singing, dancing, and spoken word with everything that resides within her." ★★★★ de Volkskrant

About Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura

Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura (1996) is a multidisciplinary performance artist working at the intersection of ritual, theatre, music and storytelling. She draws on her Sierra Leonian roots and her life in Europe to interweave ancestoral memory with contemporary experince.

Her work exudes a radical liveliness and is deeply rooted in spiritual power. She is inspired by Vodun cosmology and West African traditions, and approaches the performance space as a ritual space where the visible and the invisible merge.

Through movement, language and sound, she embodies personas that bear stories both personal and collective, in which the individual and the mythical combine. She describes her practice as ‘soul-voice storytelling’: an intuitive form resulting in a fluid amalgamation of art and ritual.

She graduated from Toneelacademie Maastricht institute of performative arts and created Great Apes of the West Coast, for which she was awarded the Theo d’Or, as well as a nomination for the BNG Bank Theaterprijs 2024.