Projects

Snowapple is an international artists’ collective of creators and storytellers, who love new encounters, collaborations and artistic experiments.

We come from various backgrounds and mix different practices, knowledge and traditions. We create profound, multidisciplinary projects that combine media such as movement, theater, mime, puppetry, music, singing, poetry, visual art and film.

I Remember / The Fairy Queens

I Remember – Work in creation I Remember is a contemporary variation on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where myth, music and performance collide in a fiercely theatrical landscape. Three actresses step into the roles of Titania, Oberon and Puck, only to find themselves caught between the characters they embody and the selves they try to protect. What begins as play slowly slips into confrontation between genders, hierarchies, desires and power structures. Moving freely between opera, cabaret, comedy and raw musical performance, the show embraces chaos as a creative force. Live baroque soundscapes gradually unravel into distorted electronics and rock rhythms; costumes fall away; identities crack open. Music functions as a character in its own right, exposing alliances, fractures and unspoken tensions. Refusing a fixed narrative or moral resolution, I Remember is built as a living, collective creation. The performers are not interpreters of a script but co-authors, constantly reshaping the piece through improvisation, resistance and presence. Humour and cruelty coexist, inviting laughter that unsettles rather than reassures. At its core, I Remember asks what remains of myth today and who gets to tell the story. By breaking theatrical conventions and turning performance into an act of exposure, the piece transforms the stage into a space of vulnerability, resistance and political desire. This is not a search for harmony, but for truth: where fragility becomes strength, and chaos a form of liberation. The full stage version of I Remember will go on an international tour in 2027, accompanied by the release of an album. The Fairy Queens is the musical adaptation of the play I Remember who has already toured in Paris and the Avignon Festival during the summer of 2026 Credits Direction – Eva Schumacher Based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Texts – Eva Schumacher Music composition – Laurien Schreuder, Ilel Elil Music performance – Laurien Schreuder (vocals), Ilel Elil (vocals, cello), Antonio Alemanno (cello, charango, electronics), Eva Schumacher (vocals) For more information, please contact us at info@snowapple.nl or booking@snowapple.nl

Cyborg Archives

After a journey through time and space, unraveling the hybrid humans, the tears of the robots, the flying cars, Snowapple introduces you to the compilation of the most amazing researchers. The Cyborg Archives contain documentation of work by artists / researchers / practitioners from many genres- music, theater, visual arts, text and interdisciplinary, compiled from Cyborg Experiments conducted from 2023-2024 under the auspices of our festival Jardin Rouge. The Cyborg Archives were initiated to capture the essence of each experiment to present it to the world. The Archives exist in two formats- a digital version on Snowapple’s website (link below) and a physical publication available exclusively at Snowapple’s shows and events. Take some time to flip through and explore two amazing years of work, dedication and art! VISIT THE CYBORG ARCHIVES

Utopia

Utopia Snowapple Collective presents Utopia, the music album and live show Utopia. After two years of researching Cyborgs, these enhanced-beings, Snowapple Collective, created the theater show Cyborg Experiment#1 which premièred at Avignon OFF in July 2024 and got loving reviews and was named Best Sound and Musical Creation as part of the Lauriers du Théâtre Indépendant awards. Utopia (previously The Cyborg Recordings) is a dark and atmospheric album, splicing together the ambient and the experimental. The songs focus on guitar and synth sounds, with processed vocals and clarinet tones giving a flickering warmth to the otherwise ominous and steely cool. The album releases Friday 13 June, 2025, with a release concert at Paradiso in Amsterdam on 10 June 2025. Listen & DownloadUtopia is now available on all streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer) Utopia’s Music Videos She Ella (Llive from Paradiso) She Ella She Ella (Behind the scenes) I, Cyborg Inter Plants Studio 150 (Live) Check back in our agenda to get the latest updates or check out or Booking/Press Kit

Jardin Rouge Festival

Jardin Rouge is a polymorphous, traveling and pluridisciplinary international festival. The objective of this ‘total’ festival is to create a space of freedom and creation, to provoke moments where a varied public meets new artistic forms, shaking up the known and the expected. Jardin Rouge develops in theaters or cultural spaces invested in a reflection on the accompaniment of the artists and wishing to give the performers a freedom of action and adaptation. Spaces ready to transform themselves to go and find the spectator and surprise them. Based on the notions of experimentation, laboratory and quest for meaning, Jardin Rouge proposes to meet artists and cultural actors who come to question our society and our relationship with the strange and the dream, while seeking a solitary and social structuring, in a perspective of inclusiveness and sharing. Inspired by the worlds of science fiction, surrealism, fairy tales and robotics, the Jardin Rouge proposes to immerse ourselves in different realities, to seek a universe far from our sterile lands, a space where imagination is the only real power. Save the date: Mexico City 26-27 April, 2025 Paris 15-18 May, 2025 Amsterdam 8-9 June, 2025 More information and tickets: jardinrouge.nl

Cyborg Experiment#1

Cyborg Experiment #1 is a daring spectacle presenting different theatrical, dance, musical, poetic, visual and even pseudo-scientific acts about possible futures. Five international and multi-talented artists present a total theatre experience in a universe located somewhere between David Bowie, the Matrix and David Lynch. A quartet of Cyborgs, unreal, magnetic, almost robotic characters, each from a different dimension, carriers of a radically different world, like parallel universes brought together on one stage. In the background, a so-called scientist orchestrates this cacophony of realities, always between satire and melancholy, humour and political resonance. Together they present hypotheses for the future and ask us: Are you a cyborg? Do you believe in utopia? Have you ever considered your body as a being in its own right? Are you prone to speculation? Cyborg Experiment#1 was named best sound and music creation at the Lauriers du Théâtre Indépendant awards. Cyborg Experiment #1 is one of the results of research focused on the experimental and multidisciplinary elements of the collective on the theme Cyborg Experiments : finding new forms to dream supposed realities, carried out in 2023-2024 by Snowapple. Press“A show that amply deserves our interest for its supercharged performance, its skilfully mastered blend of musical and visual performances, and also for its pertinent reflection on gender identity through the chimerical figure of the cyborg (…)“, Télérama “From Oaxaca to Mexico City, via Paris and Amsterdam, this fluid troupe works to change the way we look and listen.“, L’Humanité“We must let ourselves be carried, leave the shore, an invitation,to the voyage”, Le Figaro “A plunge into the fantastic, futuristic world of Eva Schumacher and her accomplices that leaves you breathless. An experience worth trying.“, La Terrasse Previous ShowsLavoir Moderne Parisien, 2024La Factory, Salle Tomasi, Avignon Festival OFF, 2024 Booking/Press Kit https://youtu.be/BGQpMgqza08

SHE

The SHE movement was born from a powerful encounter between Brazilian indigenous leader Shirley Krenak and artistic leaders Masja & Hans Plompenheim, right in the heart of Ruigoord. Together, they envisioned a future where joy and balance coexist – a future rooted in indigenous wisdom, spreading across the West and the world. Masja, inspired by this vision, turned to Laurien SHE Snowapple to manifest the idea and gather musicians who could bring this mission to life. In 2023, they held their first residency at Landjuweel, a transformative moment where the seed of SHE was planted and everything grew organically into what it is today. This was the moment when the core group took shape – Celine, Maartje, Chynthia, and Cheryl Angel – each contributing their unique magic to this movement. Together, they’re building a movement where SHE can grow and grow, embracing everyone who wants to be part of this beautiful, transformative journey, and with our epic centre at Casa Poëtica in Ruigoord. You can find them on the streets, in theaters, near polluted waters, in historical and special music venues around the world, in the wilderness, and at festivals. SHE will be there dancing, singing, walking in a parade, and telling the facts about nature and humanity that SHE wants to create awareness of. Follow SHE on Instagram and Facebook https://youtu.be/y2qK2Uy9rsA?si=dUK8xns8SVHXaNc1https://youtu.be/22ni8jCF87E?si=Y3YUYGVt1NDHGd0w

Film

Snowapple operates a film production house, focused on hybrid forms of cinema. We merge art, theater, film and everything in between to create a unique and unclassifiable form of video art. Our biggest projects include A Moonless Night, a 60-minute long surrealist journey, telling the story of the moon’s fall from the night sky and La Llorona, which appeared in many festivals including Animasivo, La Fête des Morts à Paris, WWCS Film Festival, and the Festival Internacional de Contrometrajes: el Heraldo and was awarded the Audience Award at the Havana Film Festival, the 24X Segundo- Golden Channel Award at Shorts México, Education Program Selection at the Málaga Film Festival and Special Mention- Latin-American Film at Anima Latina. the music video for I, Cyborg has won awards such as Best Music Video at the Oniros Film Awards New York, European Short Awards and Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NYvImrpnuE&ab_channel=Snowapplehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gubRMvftchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds17wQObdyo

Casa Snowapple Mx

About Casa Snowapple MX is Snowapple Collective’s house of art and culture in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Created and run by women, the Casa inhabits a modernist building by architect Alejandro Prieto Posada, a key figure of 20th-century Mexican modernism, that was once home to composer Carlos Chávez, and it carries on that vocation as a creative refuge: a place of passage, work and encounter. Since opening its doors in 2021, the Casa has offered national and international artists time, space and community to research, develop, produce and share new work, guided by joyful activism and a commitment to gender equality, human rights and the leadership of women and LGBTQ+ artists. Residencies International residencies run year-round in three formats: open calls, collaborative projects with companies, institutions and independent stays. Each year, an open call invites artists and women- and LGBTQ+-led collectives from all disciplines to work around a shared theme: Wilderness in 2025 and 2026, Heroes in 2026 and 2027, with over 100 proposals received each year from around the world. Selected residents receive travel support, accommodation, materials budget, a stipend and a public closing event. In the first half of 2026 alone, the Casa hosted 22 residents from 10 countries across 9 disciplines, including its 7th Writers’ Residency, which closes each year with the Fiesta Literaria, an evening of live readings, music and community developed in collaboration with Mexican publishers. Festival and public programs Jardin Rouge Festival, the multidisciplinary festival of experimental performing and visual arts also held in Amsterdam and Paris; Xantolo, the Day of the Dead celebration inspired by the Huastecan tradition, which fills the house with music, theatre, dance, poetry and ofrendas and welcomes thousands of neighbors each year; and 8M Memoria Viva, a Women’s Month program on art, memory and human rights developed in collaborartion with local institutions like Cineteca Nacional, Centro de Cultura Digital and Museo de la Ciudad de México, with the participation of searching mothers and activists. All free of charge. Alongside them, a weekly program of classes, workshops, concerts and gatherings keeps the house open to its community all year long. Casa Estudio The Casa’s recording studio and sound lab: album production residencies, podcast production, live sessions and cultural documentation projects. El Chal de las Musas The Casa’s monthly podcast opens the microphone to independent artists to tell their stories and share their creative processes, weaving a community that reaches beyond the walls of the house. The Casa works in alliance with institutions such as the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, UN Human Rights and Cineteca Nacional. Full program at casasnowapple.mx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huY8wSUP5ag&list=PLYR9t4-dLsVP5YvBgpFQ7VHhAyIlID4Bz&index=5 This podcast serves as an open platform for dialogue between local, international artists and creative thinkers. Each episodes explores the intersection of creativity, politics and society, featuring honest conversations on contemporary issues. Join the discussion for an authentic look at the projects and people shaping the contemporary cultural landscape in Mexico and around the world. Intrigued? Follow them on Instagram and listen on YouTube and tream the latest episodes on all major platforms PHOTOS

Snowapple Music

Snowapple’s music is characterized by idiosyncratic arrangements, and is sometimes described as folk-avant-garde-pop-cumbia with a punk edge. We specialize in quirky, philosophical songs and poetry with a socio-cultural slant: expect songs dealing with serious subjects, such as violence against women in Mexico, alternated with light, summery tunes whose sound gets the audience dancing. By combining theater and film with diverse musical influences, our group brings a unique sound to auditoriums and festivals. The wide range of musical instruments, props and costumes that our band deploys on stage makes each show a feast for the eyes – and a treat for the ears. Our music has been played multiple times on BBC Radio and we have made several appearances on international TV (Canal11, TV Azteca, Canal22). Click here to listen!

Education

Snowapple is characterized by its desire to meet, share and constantly learn from others. Therefore Snowapple organises a wide scale of different workshops on topics such as puppetry, Latin percussion, African percussion and physical theater. We develop our pedagogy based on hybrid creation and the mixing of the arts. We give workshops for artists or amateurs who want to explore new practices, or find out how to develop their research by adding techniques from physical theatre, mime, or object theatre. We also invite teachers whom we appreciate to give workshops in which we participate ourselves and which are also open for other participants to join.

Residencies

In 2023, Snowapple Collective received funding to support women artists in an attempt to experiment with new creative forms and modes of expression. With this grant, we aim to facilitate artistic laboratories at Casa Snowapple Mx. The groups will consist of upcoming and established writers, filmmakers and multidisciplinary artists; uniting Mexican and international guests. The programs offer workshops and field trips into Mexico City, and each participant will be assigned an individual space to retreat and to create. Participants will also be given the opportunity to present their work at Casa Snowapple Mx’s closing night public event.