Welcome to Trevoga’s Vestibule of Hell
Raw, sensual, rebellious and confrontational: the hard-hitting dance collective Trevoga mixes pop culture, the club scene, ‘high art’ and a dash of dystopia into an explosive commentary on the spirit of the times. With their new performance Xx-63, they dive into the world of desire, seduction and the dark side of contemporary escapism.
After the Afters.
After spaces once called underground are rebuilt as luxury apartments,
After corporate-funded pride parades, where we danced like it mattered-then realized it didn’t.
Trevoga steps straight into this afterlife, at the vestibule of hell.
Following their award-winning 11 3 8 7 (Best of Amsterdam Fringe 2023; NRC Top 5 performances of 2023-2024), Xx-63 dives deeper into the depths of desire, seduction, and contemporary escapism through a hauntological remix of the recent past.
The result is a visceral dreamscape pulled from the recesses of our zeitgeist. In Xx-63, the capitalist body is no sacred place but an abandoned shopping mall—crammed with remnants of consumer culture, synthetic chemicals, and sexually charged images.
Euphoric repetition turns tight. The performers convulse within a sticky fog of emotional fatigue, where withdrawal is no longer a symptom, but a choreography. A tactic of flight in a system buckling under its own excess.
Inspired by club culture and fuelled by an urgent rage, the performers explore how bodies respond to a world that constantly excites, seduces and consumes. In Xx-63, the white capitalist body is not a sacred place but an abandoned shopping mall: crammed with the remnants of consumer culture, synthetic chemicals and sexually charged images. Here, fear is not an abstraction, but a physical state – something that crawls, wriggles and bites.
The performers scratch at the shiny surface of urban hyperreality and lay bare its disturbing undercurrents. Clichés and symbols are distorted into sensual, wry forms; what emerges is a mirror of a grotesque and confused present.
Trevoga Collective, led by Sandberg x SNDO alumna Neda Ruzheva, is a chaotic intersection of hope fanatics, doomsayers and emotional outsiders. What binds them is the radical choice not to suppress stress and tension, but to embody it. The stage turns into a dissection table: a place for self-analysis as a symptom of an era addicted to instant kicks, redefining the future as something raw, alive and unpredictable – a state worth keeping you up at night.
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