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Feminine Frequencies

Nineties
Fri 15 Jan and Sat 16 Jan
Fri 15 Jan 2027
and
Sat 16 Jan 2027

There is something wrong with the way we talk, it lacks softness and openness. Or maybe it isn't about the words at all, but about who takes them, who holds them, and who fills the space. In Feminine Frequencies, theatre maker Yannick Noomen confronts himself with his own tendency to take up space.

In co-production with Jam Factory Arts Center in Ukraine, Nineties builds a radio studio on stage. As show host, Yannick tunes in to a different frequency and makes space for another sound. In a country where men stand at the front and women carry everyday life, he searches for voices that get little bandwidth: feminine thinkers, activists, artists, queer soldiers, and women who keep the country running. Together with his musical sidekick, Berlin-based composer and producer Philipp Johann Thimm (Apparat), he explores the airwaves.

Which feminine forces emerge when patriarchal structures start to crumble? Why is femininity still seen as fragile, when it is precisely there that new possibilities lie hidden? And how does intersectional femininity hold up in these times of large-scale, international crisis? Feminine Frequencies is a sensory performance about listening as an act of resistance, and about a man with a microphone in his hand, trying to be less of a transmission mast and more of a receiving pole.

Jam Factory Art Center is a leading interdisciplinary arts centre in Lviv, Ukraine. By making unheard perspectives visible, they build a bridge between art and society.

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Nineties

For more than fifteen years, Nineties has presented performances in radically fluid forms, work that pushes boundaries, shifts expectations and questions assumptions. Nineties is an eclectic Dutch theatre group with a relentless drive to experiment and a fearless curiosity about new art forms, creating space for a multitude of worldviews. Nineties represents the voice of a generation that grew up in a world where many different truths exist side by side. Curious, engaged, and with a healthy dose of self-relativisation, they propose different ways of looking at things.

Combinatieserie 2 | Bij Het Nationale Theater, Den Haag

Combinatieserie 2 | Koninklijke Schouwburg, Theater aan het Spui en Zaal 3

Credits

concept Nineties | direction Erasmus Mackenna | performed by Yannick Noomen, Philipp Johann Thimm | music Philipp Johann Thimm | dramaturgy Liuba Ilnytska, Anne Maike Mertens | scenography Julian Maiwald | online radio platform Echobox Amsterdam | production Barbara Reijs | pr & marketing Barbara Croes, Miska Aksular | creative producer Vevi van der Vliet | campaign image Joost de Haas | in co-production with Jam Factory Art Center | made possible by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Nederlandse Ambassade Kiev, Cultuurloket DigitALL, Goethe-Institut

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