Nina Dumoulin: BUSHIDŌ

Lees in het Nederlands

What happens when you truly show yourself, without armor, and still stand?

Existential courage is the courage to be fully who you are. Visible without guarantees or protection, while the world watches and judges. In full glory and at the front. It is a powerful place, but also the most vulnerable. Everyone can see it. Everyone can have an opinion about it. 

To take this place requires balance between discipline, precision, inner calm, and self-control. These values of Bushidō form the dancers’ inner compass. They support the ability to take responsibility and shape the freedom and choices of their own life, even when this brings discomfort, uncertainty, or fear. 

The performance explores the tension between vulnerability and strength.