Travel adventures on stage
You need others to keep you going
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Tjerk Ridder travels through Europe and creates theater performances, songs and books about his travels.
He tells and sings about his adventures, following your own unique path, about connection and how you always encounter yourself everywhere.
The musical theater performances can be seen in theaters and at festivals, and Tjerk is frequently asked to play for organizations, companies and educational institutions to enhance conferences, celebrations and change processes.
Journeys & performances
It seems like a great adventurous idea: walking from Paris in France to Groningen in the Netherlands in three months along the Martinuspad. A brand new route through Europe named after the legendary Sint Maarten. When Tjerk Ridder starts the 1,234 kilometer long journey, only one pilgrim has preceded him.
Tjerk Ridder hitchhiked across Europe, from Utrecht to Istanbul, with a caravan – but without a car. Under the title 'Towbar Needed! – You need others to move forward', he was literally looking for towbars and thus for goodwill, hospitality and trust.
In search of the personal meaning of freedom, Tjerk Ridder traveled with the Belgian draft horse Elvi through different landscapes and past specific places of freedom and unfreedom in Western Europe.
'Based on his performance at the Noorderzon theater festival, you can safely count him among the most sympathetic performers in the country.'
Dagblad van het Noorden
Agenda
May 2024
🎶🐴 09 mei – concert / openbare wandeling – 20 jaar Vredesvlam – Cadzand – 18.15 uur
May 17 – Trekhaak Gezocht! – Embrace Hospitality – Amsterdam – besloten
June 2024
June 20 – Trekhaak Gezocht! – Croon, Wolters & Dros – Scheveningen – besloten
🖥️ 23 juni – Tjerk te gast bij ‘de Verwondering‘ – npo2 KRO/NCRV – 8.30 uur
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