OoO (Out of Office)

commissioned work for Expanded Contemporary AHK, Amsterdam 2025

choreography: Alesya Dobysh

choreographic assistance: Marina Pravkina

repetitor: Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito

performed by Hope Landu, Aisha Vis, Mélie Favre, Elise Richards, Marusa Jakopic, Aleyna Demir, Naomi Katthagen, Rowan van den Boomen, Ditte Toppet, Maggy Simeonova, Emelie Obernosterer, Pei Kuo, Rokas Bugys

music: Max Frimout

light and sound: Pim Elberse & Dave Krooshof

costume: Maaike Visser

OoO is a choreographic exploration of the body in relation to order, control, synchronisation, and collapse. The performers move through states of exhaustion, urgency, and surrender, through tight unisons and dissonant ruptures, attempting to hold on to a pulse, to each other, and to their selves. Through shared breath, time, and space, the performers search for collective state of presence and awareness.

Informed by the choreographer’s background in dance styles such as House and UK Jazz Fusion, OoO uses rhythm, footwork, groove and improvisation to explore the tension between order and chaos, agency and relief.

images by Sjoerd Derine