The Odd Ones

The Odd Ones is a show that explores individuality, social dynamics and finding belonging through the perspective of oddness and everything it can mean. The ugly and unappealing sides along with the amazingly and awe-inspiringly unique.

Three vastly different people (one acrobat, one contemporary dancer, one breakdancer) with different ways of communicating, expressing and being must slowly navigate a social and physical dance to understand, learn from, communicate and collaborate with, and perhaps even grow to enjoy the company of people that are not like themselves. The show moves in between beauty and ugliness, humor and vulnerability, with a large dose of oddness spread throughout.

The ultimate purpose of the show is to combat the growing polarisation in society, showing how you can both stay true to yourself and your roots while also understanding, adapting to and learning to get along with others that are not like yourself.

The show is a thematic continuation of my solo show Odd One Out that has performed in The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Sweden through 2022-2024 and received a 4,47/5 audience rating at the Delft Fringe Festival. More about Odd One Out can be read and seen here: https://www.simongranit.com/oddone

“Three completely different dancers develop a connection with each other through choreography and humor. It shows how the growing polarisation in our society can become softened and broken down” (english translation)

- Heleen Rouw, Het Parool

“What began as three distinct bodies became one evolving rhythm. The Odd Ones turned out not to be about strangeness, but connection.”

“That is precisely what The Odd Ones celebrates: belonging without erasing difference, and identity not as a fixed point but as something found in motion.”

- LucyLovesCircus, London 5 Oct

"It is nice that the three do not strive for a flowing, virtuoso mixture, but that this shared dance sometimes comes about in fits and starts. Circus dance, breaking, contemporary dance: the forms are slightly different, the rhythm and flow feels different, but strength, balance and flexibility are what all dancers need. Someone drops out of the sequence, only to rejoin later; someone is tired and needs some extra support; someone is so enthusiastic that the formation breaks. And yet it is their mix, the language that's needed to communicate with these people at this moment. The language they found themselves." (english translation)

- Wendy Lubberding, Theaterkrant