Poetry Circle Nowhere
Holland's Poetry Circle Nowhere
Poetry Circle Nowhere is the first Dutch performance poetry company. The collective came out of a regular workshop which developed into a company. It started making performances based on spoken word because there was no such thing in the Netherlands. The company also felt the need to create artistic opportunities for young poetic performers outside of the more institutionalised ways. The main talent of the young performing artists is writing, next to other talents as dance, theatre and visual arts.
As part of the application process for Contacting the World we asked companies to go somewhere different and collaborate with someone new. This is what The Poetry Circle Nowhere did.
The Poetry Circle Nowhere met up with South African storyteller and musician Jitsvinger for a workshop storytelling. The young artist from Cape Town underlined the cultural and historic worth of stories for South-Africans and linked this to the use of mythology, numerology and symbolism. He draws comparisons by using old Afrikaner poems and his own poems and showed the importance of these three phenomena for storytellers, rappers and poets of his generation.
