17 Feb

12:30

Theater Bellevue

Leidsekade 90, Amsterdam

In this personal performance, artist Leendert Vooijce explores identity beyond binary structures through a blend of poetry, theater, and visual art.

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Would You Love Me?

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About the Performance

In the personal performance WOULD YOU LOVE ME, artist Leendert Vooijce doesn't seek an answer. Here, everything will be questioned. At the intersection of poetry, theater, and visual art, Leendert creates space for space. At Theater Bellevue, Leendert performs a custom-made version.

As a child, Leendert crawled under the table wearing grandma's heels and whispered, 'Mom, would you love me if I were a girl?' There was silence. At the same time, the freedom arose to develop outside of binary structures. How do we cherish a place in our society for someone who wants to create themselves?

Move along between masculinity and femininity and explore the meaning of identity and identification in our world. Because everyone has thoughts, ideas, or fantasies that sometimes fall outside the binary norm. Leendert seeks a fundamental right to exist as a complete human being.

Theater collective Female Economy, led by Adelheid Roosen, proudly presents Leendert's first solo, WOULD YOU LOVE ME. A poetic narrative framed by a musical composition.

The performance unfolds as a proposal for introspection and connection.

Reviews

"Leendert Vooijce shows how difficult it is when there are no words for your celestial being."
- Theaterkrant

"A moving and sensory journey along the edges of identity."
- Theaterkrant

Credits

Performance: Leendert Vooijce / Female Economy led by Adelheid Roosen
Direction: Mokhallad Rasem
Dramaturgy: Pieke Pleijers
Music: Max van Westerop, Ruben van Weegberg
Technique: Esther Bernart
Set Design: Leendert Vooijce
With thanks to: Oosterkerk Amsterdam - Stadsherstel

More About the Makers

Mokhallad Rasem (Final Direction)

is an actor and director, born and trained in Baghdad. The war in Iraq changed the course of his life, after which he moved to Belgium in 2005 to live and work. Since 2013, he has been associated with Toneelhuis, the city theater of Antwerp, where he began working on classical theater repertoire. Gradually, however, his approach has become more documentary in nature. Projects such as Body Revolution and Zielzoekers show his special sensitivity to what displacement does to a person. Gripping, universal, and stubbornly hopeful.

Leendert Vooijce

is a young artist associated with the theater collective Female Economy, led by Adelheid Roosen. With a powerful fusion of language, visual art, and performativity, they dissect the dramaturgy of daily routine: why do we act as we do, and what deeper meaning does that carry? Always speaking from a place of closeness, Leendert approaches the vulnerability of things with sharp attention and openness. Leendert Vooijce gives shape to the desire for space for space. As an interdisciplinary artist, Leendert uses performance and performativity, literature, poetry, video, and photography to break down rigid and binary structures. By showing their own autobiography, they continuously question notions of (gender) identity, love, human relationships, and other social constructs, and place a gentle alternative back into the world.