Floris Schönfeld

Plays for the Strange Stranger is a performance in four parts in collaboration with Jude Crilly. The performance is directed towards a character named the Strange Stranger. Using sound, dance and objects we attempt to open a channel of communication to this mysterious entity.

In order to open this channel, the performance challenges our certainty about what is familiar (and human) and what is strange (and non-human). Using Timothy Morton’s theory of ecological thought as a loose starting point, the performance creates a temporary space in which we are confronted with the strangeness of the world around us. Through a disorienting barrage of music, voiceover, shapeshifting objects and transcendental dance, the performance leads us towards the promise of a luminescent super-communion with everything non-human.

The first rendition of the performance was shown at CAC Vilnius on April 23rd 2016. Other renditions may follow. 

Credits for the Vilnius performance:

Performers: Rūta Butkus, Antanas Lučiūnas, Pilypas Misiukevičius, Andrius Mulokas
Movement development: Rūta Junevičiūtė

Light design: Julius Kuršys
Sound engineering: Antanas Dombrovskij
Music compilation by Jokūbas Čižikas, 
with music by:
Healing Force Project - 'Point of Oscillation'
Extrawelt - 'Leaf 43'
LFO - 'Freak'

Written / directed / sound design / costume and object design: Jude Crilly & Floris Schönfeld
Curator: Monika Lipšic

Video shot by: Narvydas Naujalis
Edited by: Floris Schönfeld

Plays for the Strange Stranger
A performance at CAC Vilnius April 27th 2016 by Jude Crilly & Floris Schönfeld

"Plays for the Strange Stranger" is a performance in four parts. The performance is directed towards a character named the "Strange Stranger". Using sound, dance and objects we attempt to open a channel of communication to this mysterious entity.
In order to open this channel, the performance challenges our certainty about what is familiar (and human) and what is strange (and non-human). Using Timothy Morton’s theory of ecological thought as a loose starting point, the performance creates a temporary space in which we are confronted with the strangeness of the world around us. Through a disorienting barrage of music, voiceover, shapeshifting objects and transcendental dance, the performance leads us towards the promise of a luminescent super-communion with everything non-human.

Performers: Rūta Butkus, Antanas Lučiūnas, Pilypas Misiukevičius, Andrius Mulokas
Movement development: Rūta Junevičiūtė

Light design: Julius Kuršys
Sound engineering: Antanas Dombrovskij
Music compilation by Jokūbas Čižikas, 
with music by:
Healing Force Project - 'Point of Oscillation'
Extrawelt - 'Leaf 43'
LFO - 'Freak'

Written / directed / sound design / costume and object design: Jude Crilly & Floris Schönfeld
Curator: Monika Lipšic

Video shot by: Narvydas Naujalis
Edited by: Floris Schönfeld

Still from Plays for the Strange Stranger Vilnius performance with performer Antanas Lučiūnas. (photo by Andrej Vasilenko) 

Still from Plays for the Strange Stranger Vilnius performance with performer Pilypas Misiukevičius. (photo by Andrej Vasilenko) 

Still from Plays for the Strange Stranger Vilnius performance with performers Rūta Butkus and Antanas Lučiūnas. (photo by Andrej Vasilenko) 

Still from Plays for the Strange Stranger Vilnius performance with performers Andrius Mulokas and Antanas Lučiūnas. (photo by Andrej Vasilenko) 

Still from Plays for the Strange Stranger Vilnius performance with performer Andrius Mulokas. (photo by Andrej Vasilenko) 

Still from Plays for the Strange Stranger Vilnius performance with performer Rūta Butkus. (photo by Andrej Vasilenko) 

Still from Plays for the Strange Stranger Vilnius performance with performers Rūta Butkus and Andrius Mulokas. (photo by Andrej Vasilenko) 

Still from Plays for the Strange Stranger Vilnius performance with performers Rūta Butkus and Pilypas Misiukevičius. (photo by Andrej Vasilenko) 

Still from Plays for the Strange Stranger Vilnius performance with performers Rūta Butkus and Antanas Lučiūnas. (photo by Andrej Vasilenko) 

Still from Plays for the Strange Stranger Vilnius performance with performer Pilypas Misiukevičius. (photo by Andrej Vasilenko)