Kinderspelen One day, quite some time ago, I spent some time playing with a little boy… After a while I asked him: "What do you want to become when you grow up?" He answered: "I don't know yet, but what do YOU want to become one day, or are you something already?" I had no answer to his question, because I simply didn't know.... They are the games of children in their innocence and cruelty, which we see in our own everyday life as well as in the famous painting ‘’De Kinderspelen” by Pieter Brueghel de Oude. But are the figures in his painting children, or are they adults? What do these “silent actors” in Brueghel's “motionless theatre” represent? It is, and it will always remain an unanswered question. The answer is as impossible, as if someone was to determine whether it is the child or the grown-up in us, who conducts our deeds and actions. The micro cosmos of the games of children mirrors the world of adults and scrutinizes it with the uncompromising and relentless wisdom of the “children's eyes.”
They reflect the clouds crossing the sky, as their wreath of virginity falls into the flowing river of time, and when our ever present unhappiness prepares for yet another war somewhere in the world, where child is the father of man. We should find time to reflect and to remind ourselves more often of our childhood and our adolescence, as this was the time which supplied us with many ideals, and with a multitude of positive forces. These are the virtues to be forgotten so easily in face of the reality of our existence. Jiří Kylián - The Hague, 2010