Producing

NOW WE ARE EARTH is a grand future vision of choreographer and theater maker Nicole Beutler. Music, dance, choir, and audience unite in this eco-futuristic symphony, creating a sense of greater harmony. With 8 dancers and singers, accompanied by a city choir of 45 voices, this 100-minute piece becomes a vibrant convergence of sound and movement, offering a glimpse into a dream of a possible future.

Credits:
Concept, Direction, Choreography: Nicole Beutler
Performers: Felix Schellekens, Timo Tembuyser, Margarida Constantino, Hillary Blake Firestone, C'Cesirhe Sedney, Abigail Vrede, Anna Herrmann (Dance On Ensemble), Lia Witjes Poole (Dance On Ensemble)
Understudy: Estéban Obregon, Roos Krijgsman
Music: Gary Shepherd
Choral Compositions: Timo Tembuyser
Choir: Local city choirs
Choir recruitment Belgium: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Choir recruitment The Netherlands: Opera2Day
Tour Choir Leader: Tristan Knelange
Text coach / advice / editing & fragments: Peter Verhelst
Head of dramaturgy: Justa ter Haar
Dramaturgy: Igor Dobričić
Dramaturgical Advice: Tom Swaak (OBV)
Set Design: Lena Newton, Noa Helder
Lighting: Minna Tiikkainen
Costumes: Jessica Helbach
Voice-over: Arnout Lems
Repetitor: Catarina Ferreira da Silva
Assistant Director (Stage): Kaya Korabiowska-Dean
Outside eye: Richard Kofi
Technical Coordinator: Durante van Kuijk, Jonas de Vries,  Koen Fischer 
Light operator: Maarten van Dorp
Sound design: Maurits van Thiel
Project Management VONK/Opera Ballet Vlaanderen: Lise Thomas
Production Management: Raïssa Pater

A production of Nicole Beutler Projects / Opera Ballet Vlaanderen / VONK / Opera2Day / Dance On Ensemble / Bureau Ritter

Coproduction: O. Festival for Opera. Music. Theatre 
Residence: Grand Theater Groningen, Opera Antwerpen, Opera Gent
With support of: Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten, Ammodo Art, Fonds 21
Special thanks to Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Het Goethe-Institut Amsterdam, Maarten Boussery, Kris Mohammed Adem, Magne van den Berg, Mattheus Moreira, Inez Almeida, Charles Hens, Aleksandar Grujić, Selina Hauptmann

Photo by Anja Beutler

About social security within the cultural sector

Team:
Moderator: @nadine_ridder | Spoken word: @linanph | Panel: Mette Raaphorst (MORES), @fatmagenctrouwee, Marjan Olfers, Jean-Louis Veenstra | Keynote speaker: Marjan Olfers | Performance: @schellinkje | DJ: @logdrum_abe | Set design: @jasmijnpielkenrood
Project for @kunstenbond | Podcast: @manu.scripten | own function: producer and programmer

Photo's: @catharinagerritsen

We are used to monuments and commemorations dwelling on past disasters and triumphs. But can you also commemorate the future if you already know what will happen? Collective Walden thinks so. For a few years now, they have been building a monument to the future. During Re_Nature, GEDENK TO OVERSTROMEN will be unveiled and ceremoniously inaugurated with a memorial CEREMONY FOR THE FUTURE (MONUMENT VOOR DE TOEKOMST).

What doesn't exist forever can actually be extra special. We must prepare for unprecedented changes. What skills do we need in a time of climate adaptation and shifting power relations? Those who can change have the future.

Credits:
Collectief Walden
Jaap Warmenhoven

Photo: Thomas Meijer

We need parties. The conversation falters. Voices strike; strikes break; the right to demonstrate is curtailed. What else is left for us, but to dance? For centuries, communities have formed around beats and pulses.

Can we lose ourselves and find each other? Can we flirt with the moss, fuss with tree lilies? A fledgling tradition shoots up like beach grass, salute the centuries that come after you. NAU is an over-the-hill party of our civilisation. This is not yet the end, but from here you can see it. Let's dance. And in such a way that the foresters get something out of it too.

Oerol Festival, Loodseplak, Terschelling | 7 - 15 June 2024

Photo: Nichon Glerum

Credits:
Thomas Lamers (artistic leader), René van Bakel, Raïssa Pater (creative producer, graphic design, costume design), Jaël Kaat (financial leader), Kelvin Pater (set design), Jente Hoogeveen, Jaap Warmenhoven (music), Sophia Keck (music), Luca Borsos (performance), Bram van Gameren (sound technician), Maria Stuut (performance), Jermaine Berkhoudt (performance), Maren Bjørseth (final director), Fleur Koswee (production & costume assistent) Jelle Brouwer, Sarah Mulder, Lotte Hofstraat, Lotte Melkert, Rinke Brans, Charlotte van Nee, Gilles Goosen, Kaj Sintemaartensdijk, Thomas Dolman, Jasmijn Pielkenrood, Belinda van den Berg.

Together with various theaters in the Netherlands, we present an impact program featuring lectures, discussions, and meetings where we delve deeper into our relationship and position with respect to the planet. Together, we also explore the possibility of looking into the distant future from a perspective beyond human. Imagine planting a tree in the square in front of the theater, and suppose that without human interference, it is allowed to live for 400 years. How will that tree see its environment change? In what kind of world are we planting it?

Website for more information about the whole program

OVER HOOP (ABOUT HOPE) is a lecture-performance about hope in a time of ending.
Touring between January 2024 - May 2024 in the Netherlands.
OVER HOOP is part of the impact program of ATMEN from Nicole Beutler Projects.

Credits:
Performance: Thomas Lamers
Set design: René van Bakel & Basse Stittgen
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Photo: Moon Saris

In ATMEN / evolution is silently unfolding Nicole Beutler and her team welcome you into a possible future, the year 2200. Beneath the collapsed burden of the self-defeating hunger for power of the humans, the planet is finally breathing again and the surviving humans appear from the shadows in search of a new community.

A tour of the theaters of the Netherlands: Eindhoven, Den Haag, Leiden, Leeuwarden, Utrecht, Hengelo, Rotterdam & Breda.

Credits
Nicole Beutler Projects
Production & impact program curator: Raïssa Pater

Designed and co-write a statement for the cultural sector in the Netherlands against the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Council of culture.

Designed and co-write a statement for the cultural sector in the Netherlands against the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Council of culture.

This year, hunger stones with texts like "Wenn du mich seehst, dann weine" became visible in several European rivers. The stones were laid down in the riverbeds by people hundreds of years ago during extreme drought in the hope that future generations would never have to see them.

Amsterdam faces an opposite problem. Our city is finite. If we look at water level predictions, Amsterdam will be under water within 250 years. Inspired by the warning of famine stones, Collectief Walden commemorates the flooding. The maximum potential sea level rise is seventy meters, if all the land ice on our planet melts. In the Tolhuistuin, Collectief Walden is building a memorial that changes along with the rising water level. How do we commemorate a disaster that awaits us? And how does it affect the choices we make today?

During Over het IJ Festival 2023 will the second part of GEDENK TE OVERSTROMEN be seen.

Credits
Collectief Walden
Graphic design: Jente Hoogeveen
Creative Producer and graphic design assistent: Raïssa Pater

This year, hunger stones with texts like "Wenn du mich seehst, dann weine" became visible in several European rivers. The stones were laid down in the riverbeds by people hundreds of years ago during extreme drought in the hope that future generations would never have to see them.

Amsterdam faces an opposite problem. Our city is finite. If we look at water level predictions, Amsterdam will be under water within 250 years. Inspired by the warning of famine stones, Collectief Walden commemorates the flooding. The maximum potential sea level rise is seventy meters, if all the land ice on our planet melts. In the Tolhuistuin, Collectief Walden is building a memorial that changes along with the rising water level. How do we commemorate a disaster that awaits us? And how does it affect the choices we make today?

During WE ARE WARMING UP FESTIVAL, Collectief Walden makes the first blueprint of the monument for the disaster to come.

Credits
Collectief Walden
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater

With RADIX, Collectief Walden shows that our dealings with invasive exotics are characteristic of our actions as a species, humans, on the planet. We want the benefits, but not the burdens of our expansive ambitions.

26th - 30th of October during WE ARE WARMING UP FESTIVAL at Tolhuistuin Amsterdam

Credits
Producer podcast: Katz Laszlo
Writer: Stan Frijsinger
Voice actor: ‘Ntianu Stuger
Producer: Raïssa Pater

Collectief Walden

With Liederen voor het Wassende Water a song is sung by Annelinde Bruijs (Club Gewalt, among others) and Dominic Kraemer (De Nationale Opera, among others) or Frinho (de Parade, among others). Every day of the festival, they compose a new song based on a conversation that took place that morning between two residents of Amsterdam Noord, conducted in the silence of the bobbing EILAND. Two different generations as experts on the past and the future give voice to the flooding of Amsterdam Noord.

Liederen voor het Wassende Water was part of Talkshow. Een monument voor de Toekomst.

Credits
Collectief Walden
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Financial leader: Marieke van Delft
Photo: Moon Saris

Talkshow: Een monument voor de Toekomst (Talkshow: A Monument for the Future) is the place where we remember, commemorate, forget, and look forward: to be able to talk about themes that are essential in the here and now. Every day, we take a contemporary look at commemoration and give shape to a new memorial ritual.

We usually don’t commemorate something until it is over. Due to climate change, the future is no longer self-evident. Every evening, we spoke to makers and special guests about the role of rituals in the incomprehensible chaos of our time. Can we already commemorate a future now?

Credits
Collectief Walden x Over het IJ Festival
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Financial leader: Marieke van Delft
Photo: Moon Saris

During EILAND. OVERVAREN., you will sail to an artificial island and immerse yourself in vistas for the city of Amsterdam. Our city will probably exist for a total of about 1,000 years. Amsterdam has been around for about 750 years now. This means that we are almost entering the 'last quarter' of Amsterdam. How are we going to shape those last 250 years? And what are we going to do next? On EILAND. OVERVAREN. we pose difficult questions, in silent seclusion. Sail over to this monument of the future, warm up just like Amsterdam and immerse yourself in the IJ.

Collectief Walden
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Financial leader: Marieke van Delft
Photo: Moon Saris

If the landscape changes and the future runs out, how do we want to deal with it now? Do we dance everything out and burn up the future quickly, but fiercely? Or do we put her away so we can keep her with us as long as possible. Collective Walden makes blueprints of a changing landscape using conversations with Terschellingers.

How do Terschellings deal with the changing landscape? Collective Walden does a baseline measurement: the past movement of the landscape is recorded and – in the tradition of passing on knowledge through songs and songs – sung into the future. A start for a new ritual for eternity. Not a coming of age, but a coming of nature.

Credits
Collectief Walden
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Financial leader: Marieke van Delft
Photo: Nichon Glerum

Ever since humans lost most of their body hair, we've been looking for warmth, in hundreds of ways, to solve our cold.

We'll look for her when we get home tonight and turn up our central heating thermostat. We look for her when we get dressed in the morning, or undress under the down of the night. We're looking for her in the shower. In someone else's skin. In the food that is grown with sweat, prepared with fire, and burned with hunger.

We look for her in factories and in power stations. Where the heat of smoldering coals and fission cores is driven up and energized. Which in turn causes our homes and universities, our airports, concert halls and hospitals, to be lit bright white, shining like twinkling stars against the blue-black face of the night.

But what if the solution becomes the new problem? What if the warmth we so desire becomes sweltering, suffocating?

WARMTE is an interdisciplinary location artwork in the public space.

Credits
Collectief Walden
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Financial leader: Marieke van Delft

Tweetakt is an arts festival for everyone. You will discover an innovative and exciting theater and dance program full of premieres, new productions by young talent and success numbers from well-known companies. You can take a break from the busy program at the festival location Fort Ruigenhoek, where art installations are exhibited annually in the open air.
This year also completely corona proof!

Corona manager & advisor: Raïssa Pater

Over het IJ presents adventurous art productions throughout the year, always in relation to urban themes and in exciting locations in Amsterdam. Across the IJ you can see the city with new eyes. Inspire, enrich and amaze yourself, get to know new places, people and their stories. For everyone who believes that art, connection and meeting ensure a better and more beautiful world.

Corona manager & production: Raïssa Pater

Within the familiar environment of four plexiglass walls, two figures drag their furniture undisturbed. In a continuous movement of sliding and shifting, they try to shape their own inner world. An interior as a maelstrom of constant transformation and restless movement, looking for the right balance between inside and outside.

Following Nomads and Gods, the Constructions of my interior is the third part in a series about the displaying man.

Credits
Concept and direction: Sam Scheuermann
Performers: Koen van der Heijden and Sam Scheuermann
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Dramaturgy: Jasmijn van Wijnen
Sound design: Krijn Moons
Scenography: Erik van de Wijdeven
Light & design: Kelvin Pater
Thanks to: Lotte van den Berg
Made possible by: PLAN Brabant, NORMA Corona Fonds and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten

A poetic route shows how we as humans interact with nature. People cannot restrain themselves to appropriate and build places in their environment. In Jeugdland too, the children are busy building and creating themselves, but what does this actually mean? Our intervention transforms the landscape into a new form. Nature reacts to this again, adapts or overgrows. This performance shows how order and the original go hand in hand.

November 30th - December 4th 2020 @ Jeugdland Amsterdam

Credits
Scenic Design: Sabine Okrouhlík
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater
Assistent producer: Job Leseman
Actors: Ella Jonker, Zoë Schollee, Martijn Huisman & Annet de Ruiter
Light designer: Hessel Hilgersom
Technician: Erik Gramberg
Graphic designer: Linde Ruigrok van der Werven

Big thanks to:
Tatyana van Walsum, Hella Godee, Bart Visser, Gemma van Kruijsbergen, Bas de Bruijn, Bodine Sutorius, het Decoratelier, Afdeling Theater Techniek & Jeugdland Amsterdam.
Photo: Robert van der Ree

Credits
Concept: Sanne Bokkers
Players/music: Moriah Dekker, Maja Grzeczka, Judith Rijsenbrij, Līva Dumpe en Sanne Bokkers
Sounddesign: Judith Rijsenbrij
Producer: Raïssa Pater
Tech: Anique van Laar, Michiel Schnelle
Scènephoto: Suzie Hagens
Posterphoto: Janne Igbuwe

The Sound of Light is a performance installation that makes the voice of natural light audible. An installation that generates electricity by means of the force of nature, from which a composition ensues.
More info: The Natural Light Project

Credits
Concept: Maurits Nijhuis, Kelvin Pater and Raïssa Pater
Scenic design: Natural Light Project
Sound design: Maurits Nijhuis and Samuel de Smit
Technical design: Samuel de Smit and Kelvin Pater
Creative producer & marketing: Raïssa Pater
Voice- over: Xandra Nur Clark

Credits
Concept & play: Damaris de Jong, Jasper Stoop, Nikki Kuis en Tijn Panis
Director: Espen Hjort, Gillis Biesheuvel
Writer: Rob de Graaf
Producer: Raïssa Pater
Lightdesign: Wout Panis
Set design: Django Walon
Sound design: Charley McNelly

Credits
Concept & director: Laura Bakker, Teunie de Brouwer
Light design: Yared van der Zijl
Sounddesign & video: Lou Bikkers
Producer: Raïssa Pater
Photo: Juliëtte de Groot

Credits
Director: Leander Breen
Light Design: Douwe Bulten
Technical producer: Bram Visser
Producer: Gemma Hauptmeijer
Producer- assistent: Raïssa Pater

Credits
Naomi Velissariou & Joost Maaskant (Maask)
Theater Utrecht | Rudolphi Producties
Producer- assistent: Raïssa Pater
Photo: Sanne Peper

Children's spectacle in the center of Ghent
Wilde Mannen Woeste Wijven

Credits
Collab with: 4Hoog, Kopergietery en Studio Orka
Initiator: Marieke de Munck
Producer: Carla Beeckman
Producer- assistent: Raïssa Pater

Credits
Concept & directors: Teun Donders & Jasper Stoop
Producer: Raïssa Pater
Light Design: Jasper Nijholt

Credits
Cast: Moriah Dekker & Charles Pas
Director: Vincent van Woerkom
Producer: Raïssa Pater
Light & Sound Design: Wout Panis & Cedric van Dalen
Photo: Vincent van Woerkom

Credits
Cast: Tobias Nierop, Laurien Riha, Felix Schellekens, Felix Meyer, Jurriën Remkes & Lowie van Oers
Director: Stephen Liebmann
Light Design: Jasper Nijholt
Set Design: Olaf Mensink
Video Design: Lars Huijgen
Sound Design: Bram van Gameren
Technical Producer: Tim Vleugel
Producer(s): Raïssa Pater & Floor Cremers
Sound Advice: Timo Merkies
Composer: Willem Lenaerts
Photo: Robert van der Ree

Art project, installation

Art project, installation

Salome, Richard Strauss Opera

Credits
Director: Ivo van Hove
Dirigent: Daniele Gatti
Scenography and light design: Jan Verswyveld
Video: Tal Yarden
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Orchestra: Koninklijk Concertgebouw Orkest
Stage Manager: Raïssa Pater

Salome: Malin Byström
Jochanaan: Evgeny Nikitin
Herodes: Lance Ryan
Herodias: Doris Soffel

Credits
Cast: 8 musicians and 8 dancers
Director & composer: Hans Vermunt
Director: Rosanne Geerders
Producer: Raïssa Pater
Photo: Eric Vermunt

Short improvisation opera during Opera Forward Festival 2017.

Credits
Director(s): Leander Breen & Gerbrand Bos
Scenography: Gerard Valdivia Hernández
Sound design: Hans Vermunt
Producer(s): Esmee Rendering & Raïssa Pater
Cast: students from the University of the Arts, Conservatorium Amsterdam, Conservatorium Zwolle & Conservatorium Tilburg.

Installation build and created by:
Scenography: Kevin Pieterse, Katharina Wegmann, Sabine Okrouhlik
Creative producer: Raïssa Pater

Graduation play at Academie voor Theater en Dans

Credits
Director: Marije Schnabel
Scenography: Anouk van Kolfschoten
Costume design: Maartje Prins
Cast: Annelies Appelhof, Marijn Claes, Dic van Duin, Dorien van Gent
Light design: Paul Romkes
Sound design: Rutger Bouwman
Producer: Saly Ndoye
Assistent- producer: Raïssa Pater
Photo: Robert van der Ree