by Nahuel Cano (in collaboration with Modelo62 and Juan Fernández Gebauer)
ENGLISH SPOKEN, ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Deltas’ is a music theatre performance about rivers, death, and the fragility of our planet.
Following the Paraná and the Rhine, Nahuel Cano weaves together live music, film, and storytelling to connect personal grief with ecological loss. Performers shift between musician, narrator, and character, guiding the audience through a layered audiovisual landscape where currents, breath, sediment, blood, erosion, and flooding take shape through rhythms, songs, and images.
A poetic journey that shows how grief can sharpen our attention to the world we live in.
Photos by De Schaapjesfabriek
“This process began while travelling from The Netherlands to Argentina to take care of an ailing mother. From that experience grew a question: how are the ways we grieve connected to the ways in which we shape the earth? Grief, I realized, is not only an emotion but a way of perceiving—as an open wound, it sharpens our attention, teaches care, and shows how to stay present with pain. It reveals what we value and what we have neglected.”
Nahuel Cano
→ Credits
Concept and direction:
Nahuel Cano
Music:
Nahuel Cano in collaboration with the performers
Text:
Nahuel Cano in collaboration with Mart Nooijen, Juan Fernandez Gebauer, and Annika Hilger
Performers:
Reinier van Houdt (piano), Vasilis Stefanopoulos (double bass), Ezequiel Menalled (electric guitar), Mart Nooijen (vocals), Nahuel Cano (electronics – vocals), Akane Takada (Piano), Juan Fernandez Guebauer (vocals)
Film:
Juan Fernandez Gebauer
Light and Set design:
Pablo Fontdevila
Dramaturg:
Annika Hilger
Audio engineer:
Dario Giustarini
Producer:
Enric Sans I Morera (Modelo62)
Research:
Nahuel Cano, Mart Nooijen, Juan Fernandez Gebauer
Composition advice:
Ezequiel Menalled
Production Design:
Modelo62 and Nahuel Cano
→ Supported by
Deltas is a production of Modelo62 and is coproduced by Gaudeamus Festival and SPRING. The research and development of this project was supported by Gemeente Utrecht, and Provincie Utrecht. Modelo62 is structurally supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten NL and Gemeente Den Haag.