Kleinkunst performance: The Art of a Softening Heart

A kleinkunst performance about rediscovering trust and vulnerability.

The Art of a Softening Heart is an English spoken kleinkunst performance led and curated by Dutch artist David Hayne. The performance is also part of his graduation from ArtEZ Master of Music: The Sound of Innovation.

Hi everyone! I am David Hayne, and my team and I are finally able to invite you to experience something we've been working on for the last few years: The Art of a Softening Heart.

It's a mythical journey, an evening filled with music and stories, where I expose my Odyssey of rediscovering trust and vulnerability. It contains some of the songs that I wrote during my process of trauma, therapy and healing, and we will 'fill the gaps' with me telling you what happened in between. You are also invited to be part of this journey, through a few rituals that encapsulate the depth of these stories.

So feel free to join us for [hopefully] a transformative event, where we'll talk about the art of loving ourselves, the other, and the search for a softening heart.

During the performance, there will be video and audio recording with the purpose of archiving this performance for graduation purposes. There is no intention to film the audience in the process.