Facing Transitions
Facing Transitions is a personal and visually driven performance that makes the first contours of change visible. It is a search for what happens when you find yourself on the threshold of a new phase. The body changes, habits shift, and familiar certainties begin to waver.
Choreographer Ann Van den Broek explores with her performers what transition means to them: a changing body, ageing, menopause, a shift in work or identity. Facing Transitions highlights the richness of the creative process itself: vulnerable, powerful, and always in motion.
Upcoming Performances
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2 Dec 2026 |
Play | Antwerpen (BE), Corso | Tickets |
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27 Jan 2027 |
Facing Transitions | Breda (NL), Chassé Theater - premiere | Tickets |
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10 Feb 2027 |
Facing Transitions | Groningen (NL), Grand Theatre | Tickets |
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12 Feb 2027 |
Facing Transitions | Rotterdam (NL), Theater Rotterdam | Tickets |
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18 Feb 2027 |
Facing Transitions | Nijmegen (NL), LUX | Tickets |
Co(te)lette – mini documentary
This documentary takes you behind the scenes of Co(te)lette and Ann Van den Broek’s creative process. It offers an insight into how the work is constructed, what is happening beneath the surface, and how the performers experienced it then and today.
Twenty years after its creation, Co(te)lette returns to the stage with a new cast and a fresh layer of meaning. The documentary makes clear how the work continues to shift in time and context, and why it still resonates so directly and physically.
Ann Van den Broek
Human behavior patterns, states of mind, and impressions that sprout from confrontations with different living environments are the principal sources of inspiration for Ann Van den Broek. With every new creative process she looks inside herself and tries to comprehend the emotions and the behavior patterns that fascinate her. Then she looks around me and get information from things she sees happening in other people’s lives.
Furthermore, Van den Broek is inspired by contemporary society: a sign of the times, a recent phenomenon or a universal motif. In that sense, her work is also a critical reaction or rebelling against things that go unquestioned, are ignored or are generally assumed to be the norm.
WArd/waRD
A big part of Ann Van den Broek’s artistic vision can be found in the name of her company. The meaning of ‘ward’, according to the dictionary, reads as follows:
1) the act of guarding; the state of being under guard;
2) guardianship, being under control of a guardian;
3) a means of defense or protection;
4) a division of a jail or prison, or of a hospital;
5) a district or division of a city or town;
6) to fend off, parry;
7) to keep watch over, guard, protect.
In short, in relation to the organization, it is a place where it is safe to congregate and work.