ARK | Connor Schumacher
Raging Against Various Elements

Raging for Love in the Face of Loss

Raging Against Various Elements is a loud, dark, flashy and ecstatic performance, bursting with a lust for life. With six professional ravers, Connor shows how grief, pain, love, pleasure, dance and death expose the fire of life and how it burns on the dance floor. According to Connor, with dance you can create an environment that helps process, practice, explore and release that which we have no control over. With this multidisciplinary performance, we challenge everyone to collectively push the envelope. Because even if we don't have control over anything else, we do have autonomy over ourselves.

Raging Against Various Elements is nominated for the VSCD Swan for the most impressive dance production 2025.

Connor Schumacher has formed a clear vision of what he wants from his work: to move people. Under the banner of his own foundation ARK, established in 2020, Connor's broad practice takes shape with various performances where the deep connection with the audience is leading.

In 2019, he won the Prize of the Nederlandse Dansdagen and in 2022 he was one of five nominees for the Giekses Strijbis Podium Prijs. It is his deep conviction that our society would be better off if we danced every day.

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Direction/Choreography: Connor Schumacher (he/him)
Dramaturgy: Maaike Schuurmans (she/her)
Scenography/Installation: Boris Acket (he/him) & Elsemarijn Bruys (she/her)
Light/Technician: Edwin van Steenbergen (he/him)
Music: Pascal Pinkert aka DJEuroparking & Connor Schumacher
Costume: Berber Striuksma (she/her) and Marco Blazevic (they/them) from The Patchwork Family
Campaign image: Jan Hoek
Production: Delta Lowe (she/her)
Marketing: Thamar Kempees (she/her)
Creative Agent: Karina van Bezooijen (she/her)
Cast/Collaborative Performers:
Mohamed 'Simomo' Boujarra (he/him) Rex Collins (they/them) Ivan Ugrin (he/him) Cain Wittenhaus (he/him) Majon van der Schot (she/her) Ahmed El Gendy (they/them) Connor Schumacher (he/him)
Partner: Grand Theatre Groningen.
Funded by: Fonds 21, Cultuurfonds, J.E. Jurriaanse Stichting and Dioraphte.