Dutch premiere Sun Eaters
For the first time in the Netherlands: Sun Eaters, a contemporary folk dance about oil, mythology, and power. A performance that makes tangible both the seduction and the threat of the resource that shapes our world.
Palestinian-French maker Jassem Hindi and Tehran-born maker Sina Seifee are contemporary storytellers who blend philosophy together with Middle Eastern cosmology, ghosts from the past, and ancient and modern poetry. Their work moves between languages, between seriousness and play, between cruelty and humor.
In Sun Eaters, they portray oil as a shifting, deceptive force: a fossil, fuel, plastic, and political symbol all at once. An anonymous presence deeply embedded in our daily lives. Through dance, sound, and poetic narration, a mythical story unfolds that brings together performance cultures from the Middle East and the Norwegian west coast.
The makers combine petromagic (the promise of economic stability), petrohorror (the dark consequences of oil extraction), and elements of the traditional revenge dance. In the performance, oil becomes a deadly treasure whose impact is felt viscerally.
