A couple dance in the most literal sense of the word: without leaving each other’s sides, Jan Martens and Steefka Zijlstra show five key moments in a relationship.
A small guide on how to treat your lifetime companion is a wordless moving image in an uspecified small space: an elevator or a kitchen or a cellar or a caravan. A revealing 30 minutes from two people’s lives in which they manage to exclude the outside world for a moment before it forces its way back in again. With a small guide on how to treat your lifetime companion Jan Martens creates a piece about love, a tender and intimate performance both comforting and confronting.

PRESS QUOTE
“….stunning fragility and snow-white simplicity, stripped of all excesses. Jan Martens en Steefka Zijlstra reveal five key moments in a relationship, clear as glass. A small guide… is a test in sensitive dance and narration, and they succeeded. Even the surprised dance-illitarate has to admit: this performance takes you in without you realising.” De Morgen, S. Dierickx

CREDITS
concept en performance Jan Martens | performance: Steefka Zijlstra | kostuums: Olivier Waelkens Coach Peter Seynaeve | met dank aan united-C, Productiehuis Brabant, kc nOna, en STUK Leuven

TIME & PLACE
Saturday 17 March 6:00 PM (duration 30 minutes) / KOPERGIETERY