Raging for Love in the Face of Loss
Raging Against Various Elements is a loud, dark, flashing, and ecstatic performance, bursting with vitality. With six professional ravers, Connor reveals how grief, pain, love, joy, dance, and death expose the fire of life— and how it burns on the dance floor.
According to Connor, dance can create an environment that helps us process, practice, explore, and release what we cannot control. With this multidisciplinary performance, they challenge everyone to collectively push their limits. Because even if we have no control over anything else, we always have control over ourselves.
Note that this show includes an after talk.
Raging Against Various Elements has been nominated for the VSCD Swan for Most Impressive Dance Production 2025.
Credits
Direction/Choreography: Connor Schumacher (he/him)
Dramaturgy: Maaike Schuurmans (she/her)
Scenography/Installation: Boris Acket (he/him) & Elsemarijn Bruys (she/her)
Lighting/Technician: Edwin van Steenbergen (he/him)
Music: Pascal Pinkert aka DJ Europarking & Connor Schumacher
Costumes: Berber Striuksma (she/her) and Marco Blazevic (they/them) of The Patchwork Family
Campaign Image: Jan Hoek (he/him)
Production: Christel de Wolff (she/her)
Marketing: Thamar Kempees (she/her)
Creative Agent: Karina van Bezooijen (she/her)
Cast/Collaborating performers
Simomo Boujarra (he/him)
Rex Collins (they/them)
Ivan Ugrin (he/him)
Cain Wittenhaus (he/him)
Majon van der Schot (she/her)
Ahmed El Gendy (they/them)
Connor Schumacher (he/him)
Partner: Grand Theatre Groningen
Made possible by: Fonds 21, Cultuurfonds, J.E. Jurriaanse Stichting, Dioraphte
Raging Against Various Elements is een coproductie van ARK/Connor Schumacher & Dansateliers.
Image by: Amanda Harput
