The multidisciplinary performance ‘How Anansi liberated the stories of the world’, about the resourceful spider Anansi, can be seen at the National Opera & Ballet from 16 May. For €15, young residents (up to 35 years old 😀) can sit in the best seats in the hall.

How Anansi Liberated the Stories of the World is presented by artists from a variety of disciplines: a DJ, opera singers, musicians from various music genres, ballet dancers and dancers from the hip-hop scene. In this performance, different cultures, languages, sounds and dance styles merge.

The makers – composer Neo Muyanga, writer Maarten van Hinte (RIGHTABOUTNOW.INC), choreographer Shailesh Bahoran and director Kenza Koutchoukali – deliberately chose a non-Western source of inspiration: the story about the cunning spider Anansi who tries to break the power of Tigri the tiger. The stories about Anansi originated in Ghana and then travelled with enslaved people to the Caribbean, where this storytelling culture grew into an expression of secret resistance against the plantation owners. In an energetic mix of dance, song, humour and colourful costumes and with a unique combination of ballet and hip-hop, the stories of Anansi now come to life on stage.

Youth offer
Specially for young people up to 35, a ticket price of only €15 applies (regardless of rank and for each performance). This way, everyone can get to know this unique gathering of different cultural influences, dance and music styles.

Watch the trailer here: How Anansi liberated the stories of the world

National Opera & Ballet, 16 to 25 May (the best tickets are still available for Saturday 17 and Thursday 22 May). Tickets: Young people up to 35 years €15 (regardless of rank). Regular from €15. Tickets via: operaballet.nl