Marcus Azzini

2019

Director Marcus Azzini (Brazil) puts the concept of 'imagination' at the heart of his work. He is fascinated by the ability of actors to evoke worlds that are not real but that exist for the duration of a performance. Under his direction, he constantly strives to portray the personal: a person's direct physical and emotional relationship to other people and the world.

In season 2019-2020 Marcus creates with ICK the performance All Over - Acts of Love in which dancers and players surrender themselves to love. According to ICK, Azzini takes an important motif as his starting point: the fragility of the human being and the power of vulnerability in a society in which there is little room for the vulnerable.

Marcus Azzini has been artistic director at Toneelgroep Oostpool since 2012 and believes in theatre as a means for unforeseen 'encounters' with other people, times and ideas. He has directed Angels in America (2015), Allemaal mensen (2018) and People, Places & Things (2019). The company lets you experience that feelings can be contradictory and thoughts can change. That we live together with other people, who, like us, relate every day to the incomprehensibility of our existence. All of Oostpool's theatre makers share with audience the question: How to be human?

All over - Acts of love

Five Love Duets in dance and language

In All Over - Acts of Love dancers and players surrender themselves to the movements of love. A meeting takes place between two strangers who seem to have known each other for years. They fall in love in a big city, against the backdrop of a world that is in danger of being destroyed. How do we deal with love in a world that increasingly clearly indicates that this is no longer the case?

Choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten and director Marcus Azzini admire each other's work. In All Over - Acts of Love, this admiration comes together in a continuous flirtation between two theatre disciplines. Greco and Scholten are choreographers with a great sense of theatricality. Azzini is a director with a special interest in the physicality of play. In their work they all look for the meaning of the body in this day and age. The theme 'Body in Revolt' by ICK and 'How to be human now' by Toneelgroep Oostpool find each other in this special collaboration.

Hannah van Wieringen writes dialogues in which people scan, think and feel. Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten create a choreography. Director Marcus Azzini brings everything together in a space designed by Theun Mosk, in which body and language find each other without being inferior to each other. Both go a long way in their passion for total surrender.

For Azzini, this state of love is at its closest. Love as something you do, a series of actions. It requires a willingness, an availability that has nothing to do with ideas or fixed structures. Loving is a succession of moments of surrender. And although a moment is by definition transient, it does not make love any less valuable.