Raaklijn

Raaklijn is a multi-year project exploring the ever-shifting boundary between the festival and protected nature. From now on, we will call this boundary the Raaklijn. Over the next four years, Rita Hoofwijk will invite a new artist and discipline to make this invisible interface tangible for us. During Oerol 2025, this will be the dance company Tumbleweed, through a choreography of touch and exploration.

The Raaklijn is an imaginary line that only emerges during Oerol and appears across the island, where the protected nature begins and the festival’s permit ends. However, this line is not intended to separate two parts—not to divide—but to entwine both sides and increase our sensitivity to the environment. At Oerol 2024, Rita Hoofwijk asked Oerol visitors to embody the Raaklijn themselves. Now she hands it over to the choreographers and dancers of Tumbleweed, who make the border visible through their own bodies.