A 1000 Girls is a performance, a surreal and musical tableau vivant (a living painting) about ‘1000 girls’, played by young people.

The performance deals with questions around gender or (normative) gender expression, friendship, love and dreams. About puberty and adolescence. About how a person changes as they get older (physically and mentally). The performance is about what the concept of ‘being a woman’ can mean and what metamorphosis she undergoes during a lifetime.

The creation will be made up of a sequence of imaginative and musical/ sculptural scenes. As initiator, Sietske Van Aerde is the artistic driving force. The work as a whole springs from her artistic practice as a visual maker: as a painter and costume designer. It is she who brings together artists from different disciplines to each respond in their own way to her drawn script

The scenes start from a script constructed from drawings Sietske Van Aerde made over the past year. A script that comes to life through the addition of music compositions, text and video material (in conjunction with scenography, props, costumes and lighting design).

By transferring the drawings piece by piece to writers, musician/composers and videographers, the contribution (and interpretation) of these artists is placed as a new layer of meaning over the original image. Using this working method, Sietske aims to allow multiple perspectives.