The Current

The Current by Club Guy & Roni, Boris Acket and HIIIT is part of The Human Odyssey, an ongoing artistic trajectory exploring how humans create a sense of meaning and belonging through collective physical experience.  

The performance brings the physical and cultural codes of club culture to the stage, approaching raving as embodied resistance and an expression of freedom. Within an electronic environment, the performers reconstruct a night in which segregation, pain and trauma are left on the dance floor, moving toward transcendence, liberation and shared release. 

NITE actor and singer Sarah Janneh performs texts written by South African writer Ronelda S. Kampfer. Live percussion and electronic music by Dutch producer Max Frimout and Ukrainian rising star Stanislav Tolkachev shape a shared physical landscape.  

The performance unfolds inside an immersive spatial installation by visual artist Boris Acket. Rather than a traditional theatre setting, the audience enters a shifting landscape of corridors, platforms and small spaces where performers, musicians and spectators share the same environment. As rituals of endurance, repetition and precision unfold, dancers and musicians move through the architecture, dissolving into the group or redirecting its energy. Light, sound and spatial design create a mesmerizing living labyrinth in which perspectives constantly shift, inviting the audience to experience the tension between individuality and collective movement, between polarization and community. 

 The title The Current suggests a stream we are either resisting or carried by, a question of taking a position. At the same time, every position is connected within a current of energy, an invisible tension field that keeps us together. The work and its audience literally move between these meanings, holding their ground while navigating collective narratives. 

The dance language is inspired by high voltage styles such as the 90s gabber scene, direct, rhythmic and relentless, with fast repetitive footwork. The jumpy, high energy movement vocabulary of K-pop is also examined through a contemporary artistic lens. 

The Current. A performance about free movement, collectivity and the choice to stand by your beliefs.