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Boaz Blume and Brendan Lodder are two deaf performers. In Exit Comfortzone!, they team up as BB&Friends with dancer Shanice Mitchell and music producer Thijme Ebskamp to explore the possibilities their different worlds have to offer. Can sign language, music and dance connect on equal terms? Who inspires who? Exit Comfortzone! sets out to find the answer.
For years, sign language was banned — a policy that had a profound impact on the wellbeing and development of deaf people. Today, many people know sign language mainly from interpreters on television. But sign language is more than that. BB&Friends use visual sign language as an art form. Add to that dance as a visual language, and sounds, beats and foleys created especially for this performance, and you get Exit Comfortzone!