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24 May 2026 @ Roodkapje West
Broken Hearts
Location: Keileweg 10A
free entrance
BROKEN HEARTS
Broken Hearts is a duo of performance-based events, bringing tenderness, love, care, and different ways to contemplate sorrow, process anger, or simply forget for a moment.
Across two days, four performances unfold, each approaching heartbreak from a different angle. Alongside this, a market gathers local small businesses offering things that can accompany your state. From art to satisfy your eyes, to food to meet your mouth, to massages to relax your body, to alcohol to loosen up.
The project is put together with care by Kapish, and held within the arms of Roodkapje West.
A freely accessible event, where you can stay between performances, have a coffee, move through the market, or take distance when needed. A seemingly casual setting, shaped by the work and trust of the artists, the team, and the space.
Be ready to cry, laugh, or simply stay.
TIMETABLE
15:00–15:30
Yalla Tnam by Rebecca Lillich // Krüger & Ahmad Mallah
16:00–16:20
A Practice of Becoming, Still by Michel Wang / 王敏亘
Yalla Tnam
Yalla Tnam (ياهلا تنام) is a ritual performance, a composed echo of grief, protest, and survival.
Through voice, sound, and movement, Ahmad Mallah and Rebecca Lillich // Krüger invite the audience into a moment of collective mourning and transformation. The performance interweaves Fairuz’s lullaby "Yalla Tnam" with Syrian grief rituals that emerged during the early years of the Syrian Revolution.
Mallah’s voice, processed live, becomes a rhythm of endurance, while Lillich // Krüger responds through embodied gestures moving between care and violence.
The work unfolds between personal and political layers, touching on migration histories and the complexity of relating to the Netherlands as both refuge and place of displacement.
Language: Arabic and English
Ahmad Mallah & Rebecca Lillich // Krüger
Ahmad Mallah and Rebecca Lillich // Krüger are an Amsterdam-based performance duo intersecting the personal and political. Their work uses open symbols to generate reflection, introspection, and connection.
Their earlier works, The Ladder (2023) and The Price of Bricks (2024), revolve around singular objects and unfold as action-based performance happenings. Their more recent works, including pulling blood from stone (2025) and Yalla Tnam (2026), move towards surrealism and song-based structures, combining gesture, costume, and voice.
A Practice of Becoming, Still
A Practice of Becoming, Still stays with heartbreak as an ongoing process rather than a fixed moment.
Through an immersive and atmospheric approach, the work follows a body moving through uncertainty, sensing, repairing, and continuing to become. It is rooted in personal experience and ongoing artistic research.
Language: Mandarin and English
Michel Wang / 王敏亘
Michel Wang is a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist based in the Netherlands. Working across fashion, performance, installation, and publishing, their practice explores queer hybridity, transformation, and belonging through tactile materials and speculative storytelling.
Drawing from personal sensations, Asian queer experiences, and cyberfeminist thought, Michel creates intimate and poetic environments where bodies, technologies, and materials intertwine.
Broken Hearts is a duo of performance-based events, bringing tenderness, love, care, and different ways to contemplate sorrow, process anger, or simply forget for a moment.
Across two days, four performances unfold, each approaching heartbreak from a different angle. Alongside this, a market gathers local small businesses offering things that can accompany your state. From art to satisfy your eyes, to food to meet your mouth, to massages to relax your body, to alcohol to loosen up.
The project is put together with care by Kapish, and held within the arms of Roodkapje West.
A freely accessible event, where you can stay between performances, have a coffee, move through the market, or take distance when needed. A seemingly casual setting, shaped by the work and trust of the artists, the team, and the space.
Be ready to cry, laugh, or simply stay.
TIMETABLE
15:00–15:30
Yalla Tnam by Rebecca Lillich // Krüger & Ahmad Mallah
16:00–16:20
A Practice of Becoming, Still by Michel Wang / 王敏亘
Yalla Tnam
Yalla Tnam (ياهلا تنام) is a ritual performance, a composed echo of grief, protest, and survival.
Through voice, sound, and movement, Ahmad Mallah and Rebecca Lillich // Krüger invite the audience into a moment of collective mourning and transformation. The performance interweaves Fairuz’s lullaby "Yalla Tnam" with Syrian grief rituals that emerged during the early years of the Syrian Revolution.
Mallah’s voice, processed live, becomes a rhythm of endurance, while Lillich // Krüger responds through embodied gestures moving between care and violence.
The work unfolds between personal and political layers, touching on migration histories and the complexity of relating to the Netherlands as both refuge and place of displacement.
Language: Arabic and English
Ahmad Mallah & Rebecca Lillich // Krüger
Ahmad Mallah and Rebecca Lillich // Krüger are an Amsterdam-based performance duo intersecting the personal and political. Their work uses open symbols to generate reflection, introspection, and connection.
Their earlier works, The Ladder (2023) and The Price of Bricks (2024), revolve around singular objects and unfold as action-based performance happenings. Their more recent works, including pulling blood from stone (2025) and Yalla Tnam (2026), move towards surrealism and song-based structures, combining gesture, costume, and voice.
A Practice of Becoming, Still
A Practice of Becoming, Still stays with heartbreak as an ongoing process rather than a fixed moment.
Through an immersive and atmospheric approach, the work follows a body moving through uncertainty, sensing, repairing, and continuing to become. It is rooted in personal experience and ongoing artistic research.
Language: Mandarin and English
Michel Wang / 王敏亘
Michel Wang is a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist based in the Netherlands. Working across fashion, performance, installation, and publishing, their practice explores queer hybridity, transformation, and belonging through tactile materials and speculative storytelling.
Drawing from personal sensations, Asian queer experiences, and cyberfeminist thought, Michel creates intimate and poetic environments where bodies, technologies, and materials intertwine.
