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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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:

‘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

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