SEASONING FALL - SPECIAL EDITION DUTCH DESIGN WEEK

ARTHOUSE UNITED COWBOYS
OCTOBER 24 & 25 (8:30pm)

During the second weekend of DDW, Seasoning Fall will take place. 

Every change of the season United Cowboys invites audiences to witness new developments in the field of live-art.  Local, national and international guest artists develop and show their new work and research in a transdisciplinary program. An artistic dialogue with dance, music, performance and fine arts, in which physicality predominates.

The upcoming special edition of Seasoning Fall will show a line-up of work in development, placed in an international context of performances. The program is being curated by the artistic team of United Cowboys: Maarten van der Put en Pauline Roelants.

Amongst others, Seasoning Fall presents the durational piece:
Boys Just Want to Have Fun by ILDance (Sweden) is a durational multi-disciplinary dance-performance-art piece of 6 to 8 hours presenting in white exhibition/gallery spaces. The work explores deconstruction of masculinity and challenges taboos surrounding male sensuality and sexuality  within mainstream Western culture. 
Supported by Perform Europe. Important Audience Information HERE.

Next to the durational piece Boys Just Wanna Have Fun, the program will consist of solo dance performances by: Revé Terborg, Fleur de Decker and Sameepta Lamba, inspired by a poem of spoken word artist Dean Bowen. For Seasoning Fall United Cowboys invited three solos that also work as independent works.

In addition the pop-up performance 'Radialsistem' by Polina Sonic will be presented. This performance will occur at irregular times during the evening. and free entrance to the installations of the DDW participations.

TICKETS HERE
(DDW ticket holders receive student discount)

Times: 8:30pm - 11pm
Exception for durational piece Boys Just Want to Have Fun (ongoing between 3pm-11pm)

ALL OF US - DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 2025
EINDHOVEN - ART HOUSE UNITED COWBOYS

October 18-26, 2025

OPENING NIGHT October 18

During this year’s edition of the Dutch Design Week United Cowboys participates yet again as one of the main locations at the largest design events in Northern Europe. We present a 9-day, curated exhibition and program under the Title ALL OF US - consisting of a wide range of conceptional work - design, installations, performances - by local and international visiting designers. The works presented have a strong focus on how humans are so different, yet so alike. ALL OF US encourages individuality and identity within the aim of generosity and solidarity. 

Amongst others, All of Us presents the durational piece:
Boys Just Want to Have Fun by ILDance (Sweden) is a durational multi-disciplinary dance-performance-art piece of 6 to 8 hours presenting in white exhibition/gallery spaces. The work explores deconstruction of masculinity and challenges taboos surrounding male sensuality and sexuality  within mainstream Western culture. 
Supported by Perform Europe. Important Audience Information HERE.

Free entrance for all DDW ticket holders.
General opening hours: Daily 11am-6pm
Opening Night: October 18
Seasoning Fall Special Edition: October 24 & 25 (see more below)
More infos HERE.

Boys Just Want to Have Fun by ILDANCE (S)

WORKSHOP at ARTHOUSE - October 18

WORKSHOP FOR ARtists and non-experienced performers
October 18 at 14.00 - 18:00 (4 hours)
At United Cowboys Art House

The Artistic Director of ilDance, Israel Aloni, is inviting; self-identifying male people who are experienced performers with significant relation to corporeality and physical practices (dance, physical theatre, butoh etc.), to a workshop where they will share part of the  practice they developed for the project Boys Just Want to Have Fun. 

About Boys Just Want to Have Fun

Since 2014, Aloni’s work has been addressing gender and sexuality in both direct and indirect ways, in numerous projects which work through these themes from non-binary and female perspectives. In Boys Just Want to Have Fun, they address homoeroticism and toxic masculinity, how these influence the perception of male figures in modern society and seek to embody post-humanist-feminist agenda through deconstruction and redefinition of the male. Boys Just Want to Have Fun is a durational piece of 8 hours with a set score which performs in gallery and/or museum spaces. 

 The project premiered in 2024 in Belgrade, Serbia and was selected into Perform Europe for international touring in 2025. More information about the project can be found on the website. 

Content of the Workshop
The workshop starts with a movement session of The I.Aloni Experience led by Israel Aloni - a movement research practice which Aloni has been developing in the past 25 years. The practice works with movement, philosophy and psychology to enrich the experience of the practitioners through attentiveness to corporeality (their physical being) and its relation to the psyche (their personhood) and the World. The session is led as a guided improvisation where there is no importance to form or shape, rather to the encounters between the practitioners and the information which Aloni shares through the session.

 Following the I.Aloni Experience session, the day includes a number of group improvisation sessions followed by collective reflections. Each improvisation session is prompted by one of the key concepts and/or exercises that Aloni and the performers of Boys Just Want To Have Fun have developed in the project. There is a specific methodological progression in the complexity and the depth which the workshop's participants are invited to process in their work. Throughout the workshop, references from art, culture, philosophy, discourse, politics and public affairs are introduced to layer the way we refer to maleness and manhood.

Participation and Duration

The workshop is suitable strictly for people aged 18 and up who self-identify as male (including trans, queer, and other masculine identities) and be open to working closely and openly in a group setting. English proficiency is necessary for communication, though it does not have to be the applicant’s native language. A minimum of three years’ experience in physical work – either as a student and/or professional – is required. All body types and life experiences are welcome.

The workshop will take place on October 18 at 14.00 - 18:00 (4 hours) at United Cowboys Art House (Kleine Berg 62, Eindhoven, The Netherlands). The number of participants for this workshop is limited to 10 people.

 Application Closed.

For more information, please contact: info@ildance.se,  www.ildance.se