ROOM IN OUR HOUSE - Nicole Beutler Project & Rematriation

What to expect

ROOM IN OUR HOUSE is a danced manifesto for peace, made with indigenous artists from North America.

Two men meet; one is a child of survivors and the other an heir of rulers, linked by a complex colonial history.

Four hundred years ago Dutch ships sailed up the Hudson River and met the Haudenosaunee, the original inhabitants of North America.

The Two Row Wampum agreement is two lines travelling side by side: one for the Haudenosaunee in a canoe, one for the Dutch in a ship.

A narrator guides the audience through stories, history and indigenous wisdom; dance, music and text form a ritual where memory and hope exist side by side.

ROOM IN OUR HOUSE is the first chapter of CLOSE ENCOUNTER / Future Stories by Nicole Beutler Projects.

The performance treats peace as something that must be continually reinvented, not taken for granted.

Nicole Beutler is an award-winning, internationally known dance theatre artist working across performance, dance, visual art and music theatre.

Michelle Schenandoah is Oneida/Haudenosaunee, an inspirational speaker and media maker, and founder of Rematriation in Syracuse, USA.

• Concept and direction: Michelle Schenandoah, Nicole Beutler
• Choreography: Nicole Beutler with the cast
• Dancers: Montana Summers, Rob Polmann
• Narrator: Montana Adams
• Text: Ty Defoe, Michelle Schenandoah
• Music: Gary Shepherd, Ty Defoe, Adah Schenandoah
• Dramaturgy: Justa ter Haar, Igor Dobričić
• Costumes: Tisha Thompson, Jessica Helbach
• Set: Jessica Helbach with Tim Vermeulen
• Sound: Maurits Thiel; light: Tim Vermeulen
• Cultural advice: Neal Powless, Diane Schenandoah
• Producer: Nicole Beutler Projects with Rematriation
• US support: Syracuse Stage, The Treman Center
• NL support: FPK, AFK, Fonds 21, Ammodo Art
• NL support: Netherland-America Foundation