Freeze!
US Premiere
in CST's Skyline Room
A World’s Stage production from the Netherlands
concept, text, scenography and execution by Nick Steur
US Premiere
in CST's Skyline Room
A World’s Stage production from the Netherlands
concept, text, scenography and execution by Nick Steur
“You’re unlikely to find a more rapt audience than the one at Nick Steur’s Freeze! Watching Steur is akin to watching tightrope walking: at times the shapes he creates appear to defy gravity.”
“Occasionally a show appears that has a poise, an authority, an inner strength so profound that it takes a rushing, hyperactive audience and moves it into a completely different place… slowing its heartbeats, making it pause, changing the way it breathes and sees. Nick Steur’s remarkable performance is one of those rare and beautiful shows.”
“A performance rarely demands the commitment, concentration and heartbeat of an audience to this degree.”
“The piece is at once a tense feat of skill and willpower, a mesmerizing act of concentration, and one artist’s beautifully considered statement on his own work. His balancing acts are wildly improbably, piling up large, unwieldy rocks in combinations that seem to defy basic physics. This just should not be possible. Simply watching Steur is hypnotic enough. But around this surprisingly compelling spectacle, he builds a whole web of other thoughts and questions. These musings are interspersed with long moments of quiet, encouraging us to appreciate the contrast.”
Awards
Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2013
Laureate Young Theatre Award at Belgium’s 2012 Theater at Sea Festival