Ballet


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'Ballet' is a piece produced by Gerardjan Rijnders. It is no ordinary ballet, but a drama-type ballet of people who come on, say something and go off again. It is a story in the form of a collage. The piece is based on the Greek mythological figure Orpheus. The image Anthon used is that of a man showing his pride and power by sticking his penis into the air. If you look at the position of the legs and you were to extend these, you would be able to see the beginning of a swastika. This, in combination with his swaggy haired legs, conjured up an image of the devil.

One morning, a friend called Anthon: "have you seen? All your posters have been defaced. What an honour!" And indeed, all the posters throughout the city had been covered in whitewash. It was 1993 and the poster was hanging there for the second time. Four years before, no one had objected and now everything was whitewashed. Anthon thought those posters were so beautiful that he decided to do something with them. They inspired him to make the poster ‘Designography’ for the Holland Festival





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