did you come closer when I was asleep?
did you touch me and then leave?
or did you stay with me until I woke up?
and when I opened my eyes,
you disappeared,
walking backward so I could not see
that it was you in the room
with me
are you coming back?
are you here?
can I do anything
to make you stay?

In UNISONO Abke Haring gave free rein to the various voices in her head. In PLATINA Haring seeks out the company of a tangible adversary – played by Koen van Kaam – with whom she starts a conversation. Or at least, with whom she wants to start a conversation. In so far as a conversation is ever possible. Or permitted. Or avoided.

Abke Haring: “When I make a production, I find that most is said in silence. That’s how I am in life too: feeling and being. In silence you can do so much: the way you look at each other, where you stand, are you close or far away? Are you confident, are you unsure? Best of all, I would like to make images or movements but because I want to say things, it’s always words which come.”

The words come sparingly. And in the silence the few words are unavoidable, imperative and perhaps even – one day - healing. Jimi Zoet designed a penetrating soundscape for this intimate duet which closely follows the thought pattern of Haring & Co.