It started very subtly, with some slight nervous twitches in her pinkie and index finger, like an inconvenience looking for the nearest exit. Unannounced and always at the wrong time.

Since then, the Hand felt her control slip from her fingers more and more frequently. Unwillingly shaking, shivering, trembling… Rrrrrrrr…

It really annoyed the performer, but she managed to hide it for a long time, like something that didn’t belong to her and that she needed to get rid of, as soon as possible. Bllll…. All that posturing…

In the performance The Untamable Hand, Hedwig Houben tries to find out what an autonomous, independent position as an artist really requires of her. Realizing that she must move beyond shame and desirability the tendency to circumvent real unpredictability remains tempting.