Extricate

Bert Berg & Tomas Vanderplaetse (Danspunt)

Circus artist Bert Berg is living proof that a ‘handstand’ is more than just balancing upside down on your hands. He continually toys with upside-down and twisted forms, redefining what a handstand can be. For Extricate, Bert and the musician and composer Tomas Vanderplaetse make use of the surroundings of the city park ’t Plein as the basis for their performance. The fountain, the inversions, the recordings in the park and the movement come together to form a new whole. The title Extricate refers to a principle of Japanese Butoh dance, ‘Extricate the pure life which is dormant in our bodies’.