Dutch movement theatre director

LINDA OLTHOF

returns to Theaterlab in residence August 2009

She will be rehearsing, teaching, and

presenting her new performance piece

SPEK

performances on

August 14 and 15 –– 8 PM – 2009

$15 General Admission

$10 Students and Seniors 

Reservations: 212-929-2545

SPEK is the second installment of Linda Olthof’s trilogy, LadyLand Project.about the absurdity of human situations shaped in immediate image and language. Familiair situations turned around.  Inspired by the artist Francis Bacon, James Purdy and the Coen Brothers, she makes surprising use of legends and archetypes.

Below is a video of some clips from one of Linda’s earlier pieces, Behind Them The Desert

Linda Olthof studied acting at the ArtEZ Academy of Theater in Arnhem, the Netherlands. She received her Bachelors of Theater in 1995. After graduation she continued studying Body and Voice with Zygmunt Molik (from Jerzy Grotowski’s Theater Laboratory Poland) in Berlin. As an actress she worked with the Dutch Theatergroup Hollandia of Johan Simons (Münchner Kammerspiele) and Belgium Theatermaker Jan Fabre in Antwerp. Performed at stages throughout the whole of Europe (amongst Theatre de la Ville Paris, Theater Zerbrochene Fenster Berlin, Naional Art Centre Ottawa, Kaaitheater Brussels, Thalia Theater Budapest) She is the founder of Theatergroup Montana with whom she created the productions Man and Horse and The Fireangel.These productions went to stages in Holland, Belgium and Germany. Her latest theaterwork as an actress was production of Lars von Trier’s Dogville in the theater, she played the role of Liz, nominated for the public theater award of 2007. Director of physical theater and dance theater, she teaches at the Academy of Art and Dance Arnhem. www.lindaolthof.com Last Summer she presented the first part of the trilogy: RASKOLNIKOV at Theaterlab