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Alone • War • Liberation

LIBERATION

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'Liberation' will open with nine dancers who dance a mix of Modern and Ethnic dance. The dancers will dance on world music while at the background colour films about liberations between 1945 and now, will be shown.

A DJ will mix the films and the music on stage. The films will be shown in a flash: liberation of Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, capitulation Nazi-regime, independence of 39 African countries (1949-1979), collapse of Berlin wall (1989), release of Mandela and abolition apartheid (1990-1991), peace agreement Camp David (1993), dancing Iraqis at statue Saddam Hoessein (2003), quiet revolution in Georgia (2003), etc.

The dancers will dance on the words/meanings of among others the song ‘Zing-vecht-huil-bid-lach-werk-en-bewonder' (Sing-fight-cry-pray-laugh-work-and-admire) from Ramses Shaffy.  After the festivities around the liberation, the classic dancing soloist from part ‘Alone' and the eight modern dancers from part ‘War' start fighting against each other. Eventually they expel the soloist as a collaborator, betrayer or Nazi.

Whereupon the eight dancers start to build a wall between them and the soloist. They build the wall from the remainders (ruines) from the ‘War'. However, the expelled and now entirely isolated soloist knows how to transform herself from a classic dancer into a modern dancer.

Finally, one of the eight dancers will look over the wall to see what happens on the other side. Amazed he sees on the other side of the wall a modern dancer, after which they decide to open the door and to forgive the soloist. Finally, they break down the wall together and they celebrate freedom.

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Freedomballet FREE creates not only beauty but also incites discovery, stimulates reflection, and genearates self-knowledge. Eventually the dance-tryptich will increase understanding, exchange, and cooperation between governments, companies and people, in order to avoid war in the future. The 55 millions victims of the Second World War, the survivors and the generations after them deserve this.