Photo report Anniversary Benefit Gala
Plankenkoorts celebrated her 10th anniversary with a benefit gala night in Theater de Meervaart, Amsterdam!
There were performances of a.o. Close-Act, Originally Fake and of course we ourselves also performed. All proceeds
from the evening were donated to WarChild.
- The Crew
- Welcome with Aliens
- Champagne
- Theatre programme
- Flying Cocktails
- War Child
- Three dancers do as they like
- Party
- Welcome with Aliens
The crew
First we had to work before the party started...
| • | Theo was building up the set together with the technicians of Theatre de Meervaart. |
| • | In the lobby Niels was setting up his cocktailbar
and Rudy Vorstenbosch was connecting the plasma screens with Jasper. Meanwhile Cathelijne, Marja and Wilma decorated the whole place. |
| • | Caroline, who was co-ordinating the day and Frank, who hosted the show, went over the schedule one last time. |
| • | Around five o' clock the entire crew (about 20 volunteers!) go have dinner! |
Welcome with Aliens
At 6.00 pm the evening started with the Amazing Aliens of Close-Act Theatre.
Champagne
Inside champagne was served.
Theatre programme
The theatre programme started with the filmpremière of the remake of Hoop it!. Hoop it! was the very first dance performance of Plankenkoorts. With the three of us on our scooter we danced this performance more then 150 times throughout the Netherlands. For our anniversary we invited choreographer Soosan Gilson and film artist Rick RobiN to make a remake of Hoepel op! in the form of a dance film.
Host of the evening Frank van Eunen broke off his holiday especially for us. He presented the entire programme and in between performances he told the audience a lot about the past ten years of Plankenkoorts.
Next was the performance ’I spy with my little eye’ by Femke Luyckx, who has been a dancer at Plankenkoorts since 2002. Today she represented her own company Originally Fake.
I Spy was followed by the performance FRAGILE by Plankenkoorts. For this special occasion with a
cast of Caroline and Katjoesja.
Afterwards we stayed on stage, to answer some pop questions from Frank together with the audience.
Who remembers what they were doing ten years ago?
Flying cocktails
After the theatre programme Niels Braakensiek of AlleZkan presented cocktails ànd a juggling show. Both adults and children liked him a lot for that!
War Child
All proceeds of the Benefit Gala Night were donated to War Child. At the end of the evening we could present War Child a cheque à of € 1284,- overhandigen. To show the audience how War Child uses that money, we showed a movie that Jasper van der Schaaf and Caroline made about the WarChild-project in Bogotá that Plankenkoorts visited in april.
Three dancers do as they like
After all the volunteers had received there flowers on the stage, there was one surprise left:
Thanks to Cathelijne Esser
there is now a real
children's book about ten years Plankenkoorts:
"Three dancers do as they like".
All guests could take a signed copy home!
Party
In the lobby there was time to talk, sign the books and have a drink. On stage everybody could dance to the music and images of dj/vj Rick RobiN!
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