The current

The Current‍  ‍by Club Guy & Roni, Boris Acket and HIIIT is part of The Human Odyssey, an ongoing artistic trajectory exploring how humans create a sense of meaning and belonging through collective physical experience. 

The performance brings the physical and cultural codes of club culture to the stage, approaching raving as embodied resistance and an expression of freedom. Within an electronic environment, the performers reconstruct a night in which segregation, pain and trauma are left on the dance floor, moving toward transcendence, liberation and shared release.

NITE actor and singer Sarah Janneh performs texts written by South African writer Ronelda S. Kampfer. Live percussion and electronic music by Dutch producer Max Frimout and Ukrainian rising star Stanislav Tolkachev shape a shared physical landscape.

The performance unfolds inside an immersive spatial installation by visual artist Boris Acket. Rather than a traditional theatre setting, the audience enters a shifting landscape of corridors, platforms and small spaces where performers, musicians and spectators share the same environment. As rituals of endurance, repetition and precision unfold, dancers and musicians move through the architecture, dissolving into the group or redirecting its energy. Light, sound and spatial design create a mesmerizing living labyrinth in which perspectives constantly shift, inviting the audience to experience the tension between individuality and collective movement, between polarization and community. 

The title The Current  suggests a stream we are either resisting or carried by, a question of taking a position. At the same time, every position is connected within a current of energy, an invisible tension field that keeps us together. The work and its audience literally move between these meanings, holding their ground while navigating collective narratives. 

The dance language is inspired by high voltage styles such as the 90s gabber scene, direct, rhythmic and relentless, with fast repetitive footwork. The jumpy, high energy movement vocabulary of K-pop is also examined through a contemporary artistic lens.

The Current. A performance about free movement, collectivity and the choice to stand by your beliefs.

ON TOUR: OCT 28 –– FEB 20

ON TOUR: OCT 28 –– FEB 20

Dance as resistance, beats as liberation. A cultural collision in motion. Raw, loud, intensely human. This is not nostalgia, this is transformation. A rave for both body and soul.

the human odyssey

The Human Odyssey by Club Guy & Roni is a series of dance and music performances created in collaboration with dance companies and music ensembles from around the world, moving beyond a Eurocentric perspective.

It is an ambitious exploration of different aspects of the human experience, in which the stories we tell about one another and about the world are re-examined and rewritten. Through dance, we explore and express how universal human concepts and narratives shape our lives, and how they are experienced across diverse cultures and ways of living. The Human Odyssey aims to offer new insights and perspectives on our shared human story. Intercultural exchange acts as a powerful engine for expanding the languages of dance.

Recent successful collaborations have taken place with makers, performers, and companies from Morocco, Australia, Mauritania, India, and Senegal. Building on these experiences and the questions they raise, Club continues the ‘odyssey’ by investigating how we shape societies and communities, and how meaning, connection, and transcendence emerge within them. Rather than focusing on fixed themes or locations, the series centres on the exploration of ritual, collectivity, conflict, and transformation. It moves through different cultural forms, subcultures, and embodied practices—sometimes in dialogue with other traditions, sometimes by digging into what already exists close to home.

Boris Acket

Boris Acket is a contemporary artist and composer working with sound, light, and movement. In his work, he explores the interplay between control and surrender within the (natural) world. Drawing on a background in electronic music and club culture, his practice has evolved towards stretching the boundaries between sound art, music, and performative space, often blurring the distinction between exhibition and club experience.

Acket previously collaborated with Club Guy & Roni on BAD NATURE, the previous chapter within The Human Odyssey, in which his scenographic and musical signature played a defining role.

club guy & roni

Club Guy & Roni was founded in 2002 by choreographers Guy Weizman and Roni Haver. The company creates contemporary, explosive, and interdisciplinary dance theatre that engages directly with the present moment. Its work is characterised by striking performers, a highly physical movement language, and newly composed live music, with musicians often playing a visible role on stage.

Club Guy & Roni collaborates intensively with international partners and companies, producing co-productions in countries including Germany, Russia, Italy, Serbia, Sweden, and Norway. Their work tours globally and is presented both with their own ensemble and in collaboration with local makers.

The company has received several major awards, including Dutch Dance Awards (Zwanen) for Midnight Rising (Best Dance Production) and Naked Lunch (Best Dance Performance). In 2018, Guy Weizman received the Directing Award from the Netherlands Theatre Festival for Salam. In 2025, Weizman and Haver were awarded the VSCD Golden Swan (lifetime achievement award) for their exceptional contribution to Dutch dance.

In February 2026, they received the Jiří Kylián Ring – an award that represents artistic responsibility, innovation, and care for the future of dance, and which is passed from maker to maker.

CREDITS

CREDITS

Concept and choreography: Roni Haver, Guy Weizman | cast: Adam Peterson, Angela Herenda, Milica Bajčetić, Igor Podsiadly, Jésula Toussaint Visser, Sarah Janneh, Tommy Heeffer | musicians: Niels Meliefste, Max Frimout e.a. | set design: Boris Acket | composition: Max Frimout, Stanislav Tolkachev | dramaturgy: Friederike Schubert

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