I’ll dance as fast as I can—Part 2: The Raving Ones (Maenads)
Beach Arena, Terschelling Island, NL
Live-performance + new video work (in progress) + two tracks + residue installation 
Duration: ca. 30:00 minutes
2025

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I’ll dance as fast as I can—Part 2: The Raving Ones (Maenads) is a collaboration between Lisette Ros and Gabriel Rolt. The duo is set in a geometric shape. Ros, the ‘front woman’, will yet again try to dance as fast as she can on extremely slippery liquid. This performance was performed four times on June 15-16 in Terschelling, and is the second part of the trilogy I’ll dance as fast as I can, started in 2020 with ‘I’ll dance as fast as I can’.

“left right left right
Animals shall be God”

We seek urgency in our paralysis.

Can we still express who we truly are
in a world that seems designed to numb and immobilize us?

LR On Demand is paralyzed.
We, we animals, no longer believe in ourselves. The bold, radiant gods are gone.
And so, we turn inward. We return to what is proportional.

In the premiere of this performance work we search for the divine
for the sacred fire that could pull us out of this collective, human, social paralysis.

We roam the boundaries of reason and sanity,
searching for something beyond the human, beyond the broken logic of now.

Where do we find the urge to rise again?
To surpass ourselves?
We live in a systemized world,
a society that rewards control over chaos, sameness over fire.

This performance is both a lament and a revolt.

A dance of refusal.
A trance of remembrance.
An ecstatic cry from within the silence.

© Photos by Lisette Ros, Geert Snoeijer
© Reel by Lisette Ros
© Lisette Ros, Gabriel Rolt