The BIG 30
30 birthday candles aren't that festive. You have only just survived the quarter-life crises when a new turning point in life awaits you: the BIG 30. In this acrobatic dance performance, MAMM delves into the stigma of turning 30: about giving up your youth, existential questions, the first gray hairs and life choices.
5 dancers are on the eve of a pivotal point of their lives and take you along in the final countdown to the big 30. The performers tumble, run, slide, lift and flip over the concrete floor. They struggle, celebrate life and take the audience along in their race against the clock.
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Concept: Maxime Abbenhues, Mees Meeuwsen (MAMM)
Co-production: Karavaan Festival, SHIFFT
Choreography: Maxime Abbenhues, Mees Meeuwsen in collaboration with the performers
Performers: Gihan Koster, Ischa Statie, Lara Schieber, Maxime Smeets, Sem van der Zouwen
Music: Tom van Wee
Dramaturgy: Sophie Cohlen
Styling: Jinko Joshu
Light design: Jasper Kayser
Coaching: Jasper van Luijk
Creative producer: Hanne Blomme
Production: Shannah Telleman
Photographer: Sjoerd Derine
Photographer Korzo: Arnaud Roelofs
Thanks to: Lisa Donia, Tim van den Bos, Matt McCreary
Made possible by: Fonds Podiumkunsten, AFK, Gemeente Den Haag, Janivo, Gemeente Alkmaar, ICK
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2025
22 - 25 May - CaDance Festival (Korzo), Den Haag
28 May - 1 June - Karavaan Festival, Alkmaar
7 - 9 June - Karavaan Festival, Alkmaar
12 - 15 June - CC Amstel, Amsterdam
Pop up (25 minutes)
25 July - Vondelpark Openluchttheater, Amsterdam
9 - 10 August - Boulevard Festival, Den Bosch
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Performance: Site-specific
Duration: 60 minutes
Review Het Parool
“Zo snoeihard, zo gracieus, zo uitgebalanceerd agressief – wat een geweldig gezelschap. Met individuele acrobatische hoogstandjes en verbluffend samenspel waar veel durf en blindelings vertrouwen in elkaar uit spreekt.”
- Patrick van den Hanenberg, Het Parool
Karavaan Festival 2025:
CaDance Festival 2025:
Site specific performance.
‘The BIG 30’ is an site specific performance.
It’s created on location and therefore unique to the locations that it’s performed in. ‘The BIG 30’ will be seen in The Hague, Alkmaar and Amsterdam at:
an indoor ‘Skatepark Sweatshop’
an abandoned office building ‘De Letterbak’
an industrial building NDSM ‘Pre-Reserved’
Performed at CaDance Festival (Korzo), Karavaan Festival and CC Amstel.
