24 mei 2026
An invitation to listen more deeply. To the earth. To all that lives
From 24 May to 21 June: https://www.nederlandskamerkoor.nl/en/agenda
An Elegy is a musical performance within and with the landscape. Ten people attempt to merge with nature: voices drift along with the wind. A singer tries to catch the air with her breath. Percussive strikes resonate through the ground. Someone buries themselves and waits. A choir sings in seven different languages, moving through the landscape like a flock of migratory birds.
Not a performance to watch, but a moment to disappear into.
An Elegy is an intimate exercise in disappearance and connection. At a time when humans and nature seem further apart than ever, the singers of NKK NXT, together with a physical performer and a percussionist, attempt to come together. An exercise in blending into the surroundings, while also asking: are we still capable of doing so? Have we not distanced ourselves too much from everything around us?
The landscape is a living co-performer that speaks and sings. Sand, breath, grass, movement, birds, a passing stranger, and percussion together form a musical painting in which watching slowly gives way to participation.
An invitation to listen more deeply. To the earth. To all that lives.
An Elegy is a production by Studio Vacuüm and NKK NXT, the traineeship of the Nederlands Kamerkoor (Dutch Chamber Choir). Composer and director Mees Vervuurt has created a new composition for this performance in which all singers perform in their own native languages: Korean, Catalan, Occitan, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and Cypriot Greek.
NKK NXT 2026
Mees Vervuurt concept | composition | direction
Roel Meijvis dramaturgie | essay
Annabel Koele performance | creatie | choreografie
Mees Siderius performance | creatie
Lynn van Hoydonck costumes
Bennie de Zwijger technique
Duration 70 minutes
NKK NXT is sponsored by the Gieskes-Strijbis Fund, Dioraphte, Fonds 21, the Janivo Stichting and Van den Berch van Heemstede Stichting.