A TRIBUTE TO EVERYTHING THAT BREAKS, unfolds as a psycho-dystopian cinematic landscape. An isolated body navigates the tension between a fractured persona and its underlying protest. It stages a perpetual negotiation between control and resistance, drawing on the aesthetics and emotional intensity of neo-noir anime.
The performance examines the erotization of violence while exposing a subtle progressive deconstruction. Positioned at the intersection of performance, visual art, and dance, Haveman constructs a hyper-stylized language that oscillates between restraint and rupture, where the work exposes power structures in anime as well as Japanese notions of ‘Lolicon’ and ‘Hikikomori’.
Central to the work is Haveman’s ongoing artistic research into the body as a living archive of memories and transfiguration. Rather than submitting to binary archetypes prevalent within anime, docility versus monstrosity, it hybridizes this dichotomy to reveal an unpredictable, complex, and self-determined character. The soundscape is composed by Mara Lalihatu (Animistic Beliefs), who draws from electronic and ambient music, whose sound is in close dialogue with light-design by Chieljan van der Hoek, shifting between the ethereal and the abrasive.
A Tribute offers a raw and immersive experience that confronts and unsettles. Audiences are invited into a charged encounter with vulnerability and reclaimed agency.
Following the performance, there will be a post-show discussion from 3:15 to 3:35 p.m.
Recommended age: 14+
Trigger warnings: Nudity, loud sounds
