Arno Schuitemaker

Work

Monday

What if Monday isn’t the beginning of the week, but the aftermath of a choice we haven’t made yet?

Normally, a footprint follows a step, and an echo follows a sound. The performance turns that familiar order around. In a landscape of stones, four performers move and sing in reverse. Even walking can no longer be taken for granted.

Monday, seemingly just another day, lets us temporarily stand on the far side of a future consequence and look back at the present differently. Not to undo what has happened, but to change how we understand the actions we can still take.

Here, the weight of our choices becomes tangible. Structures that seem timeless or untouchable gain power when we leave them unquestioned. Through the performers’ shared effort, what seemed immovable moves.

An ordinary moment on an ordinary day holds the possibility of altering what follows.

One of the inspirations for the music of Monday is the Song of Seikilos, the oldest surviving complete musical composition, preserved as an inscription in stone. The performers sing a new arrangement that imagines how the song might sound today, as well as Guillaume de Machaut’s fourteenth-century Ma fin est mon commencement, whose melodic lines run both forwards and backwards.

Nothing starts without a trace.

Find the performance dates and credits by scrolling down.

Photo: Nataša Cvjetković

Photo: Nataša Cvjetković

Photo: Nataša Cvjetković

Photo: Nataša Cvjetković

Photo: Nataša Cvjetković

Photo: Nataša Cvjetković

Photo: Nataša Cvjetković

Photo: Nataša Cvjetković

Calendar

Credits

Concept / creation: Arno Schuitemaker
Performed by: Angelo Petracca, Julie Derrien, Pierre Adrien Touret, Florence Gengoul
Dramaturgy: Guy Cools
Music: Aart Strootman, Ruben Lijbers, Seikilos, Guillaume de Machaut
Lighting design: Jean Kalman
Scenography: Dora Durkesac, Elaine Bonavia
Scenic painting stones: Joseph Alfonso Valles
Costumes: Johnny Blood x Studio Rabbit
Vocal coach: Rosa Baldursdottir
Technical producer: Dion Schuddemat
Technicians: Ruben Lijbers, Dave Roelofs
Production manager & coordination: Antoine Godard

The movement material is developed in collaboration with the performers.

Production

Production: SHARP/ArnoSchuitemaker
Coproduction: A-CDCN (Les Hivernales - CDCN d’Avignon, La Manufacture - CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, Danse à tous les étages – CDCN itinérant en Bretagne, L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France, Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Chorège I CDCN Falaise Normandie, Le Pacifique - CDCN Grenoble - Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, Touka Danses - CDCN Guyane, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix - Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg, La Place de la Danse - CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, La Maison Danse CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Lalanbik CDCN - océan Indien, Montpellier Danse), CENTQUATRE-PARIS
Support: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Ammodo, Fonds 21, Cultuurfonds, Zabawas

Monday - premiere 6th of October 2026 at Atelier de Paris in Paris →