Vertel! Storytelling festival

Abhishek Thapar - My home at the Intersection - DAS Theatre Master ProofWhen I was growing up, my parents always told me: ‘A big storm is coming, we might have to leave.’. Since then, Amsterdam is the 13th city I have lived in, and it’s only now that I am beginning to ask myself: What makes a home? How does one deal with memories and conflicting histories? For the last year, I have been working with certain historical narratives about Punjab, a state in the northwestern part of India, and about my family and our life there as well. My home at the Intersection is a work that I have been growing towards since I first started making theatre in my teens but could never gain the courage to actualize. In December last year, my family and I went back to my childhood home in Moga, to a place which we all thought we had forgotten about. Together we created a performance.With: Venu Thapar, Shveta Grover and Ashok Thapar.DAS Graduate School / DAS TheatreTime Between Dog and WolfAfter two years of study and inquiry into their specific artistic practice, a period of close reading and of applying various lenses, six graduating students will be showing work that invites new ways of seeing. An invitation to watch our seeing happening, in the space between what can and cannot be discerned. This is ‘the time between dog and wolf’, as they say in French, when a dog could be a wolf and a wolf could be a dog. A space where many things are still possible, and we become aware of seeing itself.