Vanishing Acts

Vanishing Acts

Maybe you’ll suddenly see me appear, so quickly that I become invisible. Maybe you’ll see me dancing among my invisible friends, and a song I sing will linger in your mind. But was I ever really there? Or did I exist only briefly in your imagination? Have you already forgotten me?

In Vanishing Acts, Felix Schellekens reflects on those fleeting moments when the impermanence of life becomes undeniable. Everything is destined to disappear—our surroundings change, we change, and everything we try to hold onto inevitably slips through our fingers. How do we learn to embrace the solitude that comes with knowing nothing ever stays the same?

Felix sings, dances, and plays at the fragile edges of existence, where reality and imagination blur into one. His theater-making debut is an imaginative and musical exploration of life's impermanence and an invitation to embrace the change of life. 

Felix Schellekens cannot be easily confined to a single discipline. After graduating from the Mime department at De Academie voor Theater en Dans in Amsterdam, he further developed his craft as an actor, singer, dancer, performance artist. His great sensitivity and playfulness, intertwined with stark imagery, encourage the audience to feel rather than think.

Felix is a prominent figure within productions of Nicole Beutler Projects. He performed in 8: METAMORPHOSIS, a production that won the VSCD Mime Prize, was nominated for the VSCD Swan, and earned international acclaim by winning the Music Theatre Now competition. In addition, he has worked with various renowned companies and was nominated for a Louis d’Or for his role in Weg met Eddy Bellegueule by Eline Arbo under Toneelschuur Producties.