OTION presents W.A.V.E
Part Three: Making the Wave
This program will be in English
OTION returns to Felix Meritis with the third part of W.A.V.E: Making the Wave, an immersive performance series exploring the invisible forces that connect sound, body, and space. Through sound, movement, and ritual storytelling, OTION transforms live music into a fully spatial experience, where sound is not just heard, but physically felt.
The series unfolds in three chapters: Floating on the WAVE, Riding the WAVE, and Making the WAVE, each offering a distinct atmosphere within a continuous journey. Together with a sound artist and dancer, OTION activates three essential elements: space, voice, and body, guiding audiences along a path from listening, to embodiment, to creation; from surrender, to safety, to play.
Beginning with vibration as sound moving through space, shifting into vibration as sensation within the body and beyond, W.A.V.E explores how stillness, presence, sound, voice, song, movement, and dance shape both individual and collective experience. Join us on October 3rd and step into OTION’s inner landscape, where vibration becomes a shared language and performance transforms into a living field. After the performance, join the After WAVE to relax, enjoy drinks, and dance to our live DJ. Whether or not you joined the first wave, you’re welcome in the second.
Line-up
OTION
OTION (Guillermo Armand Blinker)- Theo d’Or (VSCD) and Amsterdam Art Award (AFK) nominee (2024) Designer Award (VSCD) nominee 2025 – is a multidisciplinary artist who works with vibration as material. Through sound, movement, and ritual storytelling, OTION creates immersive experiences that attune bodies, spaces, and communities to one another.
Water is both source and guide in OTION’s practice, a living metaphor for continuity, memory, and transformation. Like water, his work moves between states: sonic, physical, spiritual. It flows through liminal spaces where identity softens, time expands, and new ways of being become possible.
Rooted in a background of choreography, dance, songwriting, and composition, OTION composes environments rather than performances. Harmonized, loop-based vocals form dense soundscapes. These vibrating layers carry the audience into ceremonial states, where movement, breath, and listening become acts of collective tuning.
OTION’s poetic lyricism weaves themes of transformation, spiritual connection, and a queer way of sensing the world. His work does not aim to be consumed, but entered: a shared frequency where personal and collective healing can unfold.
Sarada Sarita
Sarada Sarita is a pioneering, trailblazing and leading female figure in the Dutch and International dance world. Due to her diverse background with a wide variety and versatility in experience and knowledge, she studies and speaks the universal language of dance with reverence and love. She is especially well versed in performing, theater, composition, improvisation / freestyle, movement direction and is deeply rooted in the street and club dance scene and culture.
Sarita aka SaSa is specifically known for whacking & voguing; studying and bringing that to the Netherlands as one of the first; in theater, art spaces, schools, film as well as building whole new communities representing the culture and dance worldwide. You can find her work as a performer and choreographer on stages, screens and events. As a teacher, coach and mentor you can find her at dance academies, schools, studio’s, companies and online worldwide.
SHARC
SHARC (Siem Schellevis) is an artist director focusing on artist identity and art direction, and working at the intersection of body, perception, and meaning. He works with art made in short arcs, or as he calls it: SHARCS. His work does not aim to explain or persuade, but to reorient experience.
Drawing from martial arts science, ancient wisdom traditions, philosophy and hip hop, he designs immersive services that allow the artist to speak directly through and to the BODYMIND rather than the intellect.
SHARC is known for translating complex human mechanisms into simple, felt experiences. His direction is minimal, precise, and experiential. Less narrative. More signal. His work spans across film, music, language, spatial design, and embodied practice. SHARC invites artists to develop a healthy distinction between the self they have and the spirit or soul that they are, so they may create vacuums in spacetime where people can explore meaning, fulfillment and connection.
Worked with national and international acts like The Child of LOV, Cameron McVey, Illnoledge, Alain Clark and Khadijia El Kharraz-Alami, among others.
Stillness is not an aesthetic in his work. It is the medium. Stillness First.
Making the Wave is the moment of emergence and release. Here, vibration is no longer only perceived or followed. It is generated, shaped, and shared. Sound, movement, and collective energy converge into a field of creation where boundaries between performer and participant dissolve. This chapter explores agency, transformation, and the power of intentional frequency. Making the Wave asks what happens when we recognize ourselves not just as receivers of vibration, but as sources of it, co-creating the unseen spectrum that connects us.
Would you like to attend this program, but don’t have the means to pay for a ticket? Send an email to info@felixmeritis.nl, we can work something out.
Note: By booking this ticket, you agree to potentially be photographed during the event.