Performance with masks made of wires 'Watching with your Ears' presented during Theatre Festival 'Boulevard' Den Bosch, opening on July 19, 1999.
Subsequently at the Street Theatre Festival ‘La Strada’, Gent Two dancers with antenna-like feelers on a mask scan the space and the public. The audience wears a headphone that has a wireless connection to the end of the feelers. They can hear the sound that the feeler-masks make when the dancers move or scratch a tree or each-other or the public. 'Watching with your Ears' was selected as the official opening act of the Festival.
Concept and design: Roos van Geffen
Dancers: Gonny, Saskia, Roel
Photography: Leo van Geffen
Review Brabants Dagblad, August 7, 1997.
"Roel and Saskia move around as if sent into a trance. Weird masks clasp the heads of the actors that are fully dressed in black. The masks seriously restrict the view of the wearer. The only thing he sees is a point far away, he is deprived of a wider view by the steel antenna’s that pierce from the mask into the wide world. Steel wires that look like feelers of an insect. And that is exactly how they are being used. The couple scratch with their masks along walls, over the earth, along each other, and over the legs and arms of the spectators that listen through their headphones." With the headphones, one can hear what they see.