VONK & Steve Aernouts – Grond

Ensemble VONK and actor Steve Aernouts present a blistering musical performance in which soil plays the leading role, with text by the ever unpredictable writer Anton Dautzenberg. About soil as matter, concrete and everyday, as core and motive, but also as a mysterious innkeeper of parallel worlds. Grond is a multidisciplinary performance about the desire to open shutters.

Dautzenberg grew up in South Limburg, a stone’s throw from the Oranje Nassau 2 coal mine. Beneath the landscape in which he lived and played as a child, there was an invisible but highly imaginative subsurface. ‘A very personal writer’s mythology’ is how the NRC Handelsblad described Grond, the theatre monologue Dautzenberg wrote about it. Composer Nicoline Soeter, artistic director of VONK, turned the monologue into a sober, vulnerable and impressive performance.