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Zwermers, Pan~ // Catwalk, © Jostijn Ligtvoet Fotografie  What is the essence of performance in your opinion?  Performance, in our case, has the double meaning of being a live-performance but also being Performance Art, the art form where the artwork is created through actions executed by the artist.  Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How?  In our project Pan~// Catwalk the performers provide this action: the continuous changing of outfits. By doing this, the outfits take centre stage and tell the story: the huge transformative power outfits can have on a body and how it provides a sense of identity. The audience get’s confronted with their own inert tendency to label everything we see and realises how fluid the concept of identity really is. As an artist working in the field of performing arts, how do you personally cope with the challenging conditions resulting from the pandemic? The pandemic has greatly influenced our work. Due to cancelled performances we decided t

© Jan Versweyveld A large empty space in the middle of the stage; the floor of the space is orange-red, near the center of the space stands a white pedestal sink. This is Jude's domain. Jude's painful past comes to life here, and all the characters who made him suffer appear here. In the present where the play takes place, Jude repeatedly leans against the foot of the sink sitting in front of it on the floor and cuts into his arms. The blood falls to the floor; its orange-red color comes from being bathed in Jude's blood over the years. The narrow long spaces around this large empty space on the stage are the places of Jude's friends; the kitchen of the house where he was adopted at a late age, the architect’s office, the painter's workshop, the doctor's office. All these spaces surround the gap in the middle, just as all of his friends surround and embrace Jude, sensing his injury and trying to avoid him from his pains. Each one of them; one as his lover by car