Leeglopen

Leeglopen is a performance in development about the loss of energy, endurance, and the impact of being capable of less and less. The work explores how the process of draining can be made tangible through sand, language, and extreme slowness. About losing energy, while the sand and sea continue to move undisturbed.

A house is being built. For that, sand is needed, and water too. The dune is climbed and slowly the house takes shape, but going up and down the dune becomes increasingly heavy. The body begins to protest, the alignment between body and mind becomes disrupted, and what once happened naturally now takes more and more effort. Everything slows down, except for perception, which seems to accelerate instead, imposing itself more sharply upon the world. Why do you keep going? And what happens when your body has long been signaling something else? Leeglopen is a physical performance about the slow and inescapable draining of a body and the loss of energy.

Over a period of three years, Oerol Festival is collaborating with the Bartiméus Fund on a programme to realise a site-specific theatre performance during Oerol 2027 – created by theatre makers with and without disabilities. In 2025, an open call was launched, from which the plans of Dominique Stevens and Toni Kritzer were selected. Both makers went on residency with their teams in the spring and will present a preview of their work-in-progress during the festival.

Accessibility info

The access route from the bicycle parking lot is 100 meters of sand.