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History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

Pieter De Buysser + Hans Op de Beeck

Book Burning

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

Manah Depauw

King Dom

PREMIERE

Wallifornië is often described as a land diffifcult to access, where forests still grow luxuriantly, where beer floats spontaneously from the home taps. Many are those who believe that ‘Wallifornië ” is a name derived from the earthly paradise that was destroyed during the floods. Claptrap!

"Wallifornië or Wallifornia " would have more to do with the first Flemish climate refugees. They were terribly weakened by the rising waters that flooded their fields, were given shelter by the locals and christened the area "Wallifornia. 'Walli' for 'high' referring to the many hills, and 'fornia' from 'furnus', 'oven', to the warmth of its inhabitants. Theater maker Manah Depauw and visual artist Cathy Weyders join hands together to reach the elusive wallifornië in all safety together with the public. During the trip on their...

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...
Since the mid-19th century, America and its westward expansion became synonymous with ideals of the pursuit of individual freedom. In this case, it was Man against the Land, and it was clearly Man's right to win.The extent to which this expansion has succeeded is evident in our current hyper-globalized economy. But at the same moment that we become aware of how pervasive this success has been, we find that the project of the individual over his environment raises serious doubts and anxieties.With three cowboys and a gigantic inflatable set,...

In Sitting with the Body 24/7, a small group of people retreats into a shop window in the city centre for a week. They perform ordinary activities there: sitting, lying, walking, standing, making things, seeing, dancing and speaking.

The fixed timetable and the concentration on one activity at a time are the conditions that provide the opportunity for physical introspection. By tracing and acknowledging physical perceptions and intentions, the performers try to give voice to what usually lies hidden in the human body. At the same time, Sitting with the Body 24/7 relates to an urban environment and the possible disruptions it may bring. The passer-by is invited to participate in this paradoxical retreat in public space by watching the actions or by entering the space and...

Pieter De Buysser + Hans Op de Beeck

Book Burning

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

Wallifornië is often described as a land diffifcult to access, where forests still grow luxuriantly, where beer floats spontaneously from the home taps. Many are those who believe that ‘Wallifornië ” is a name derived from the earthly paradise that was destroyed during the floods. Claptrap!

"Wallifornië or Wallifornia " would have more to do with the first Flemish climate refugees. They were terribly weakened by the rising waters that flooded their fields, were given shelter by the locals and christened the area "Wallifornia. 'Walli' for 'high' referring to the many hills, and 'fornia' from 'furnus', 'oven', to the warmth of its inhabitants. Theater maker Manah Depauw and visual artist Cathy Weyders join hands together to reach the elusive wallifornië in all safety together with the public. During the trip on their...

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

LIGHT, MEDIUM, STRONG
are three productions that each touch upon one of the many facets of death; time, knowledge and the irrevocable respectively.
The complexity of the subject and the complexity of the (different) moments of death, made us choose to create three productions.
LIGHT, MEDIUM, STRONG are independent performances.
Three performances with clear titles that give an indication of what you may expect.

LIGHT is a solo stage performance by Tijs Ceulemans. Just a few seconds, that is all death needs. He searches. He wants to explain what has happened to him.Those few seconds, he didn't get much more. He realises that what was before him was bound to win. MEDIUM If we could tell you all the details about dying, would you want to know them? There is a space waiting for 60 people. Five causes of death. Cancer. Misfortune. AIDS. A failing heart. Old age. Knowledge is power. Or maybe just the opposite? STRONG is an experience. A safe haven for...

Wallifornië is often described as a land diffifcult to access, where forests still grow luxuriantly, where beer floats spontaneously from the home taps. Many are those who believe that ‘Wallifornië ” is a name derived from the earthly paradise that was destroyed during the floods. Claptrap!

"Wallifornië or Wallifornia " would have more to do with the first Flemish climate refugees. They were terribly weakened by the rising waters that flooded their fields, were given shelter by the locals and christened the area "Wallifornia. 'Walli' for 'high' referring to the many hills, and 'fornia' from 'furnus', 'oven', to the warmth of its inhabitants. Theater maker Manah Depauw and visual artist Cathy Weyders join hands together to reach the elusive wallifornië in all safety together with the public. During the trip on their...

LIGHT, MEDIUM, STRONG
are three productions that each touch upon one of the many facets of death; time, knowledge and the irrevocable respectively.
The complexity of the subject and the complexity of the (different) moments of death, made us choose to create three productions.
LIGHT, MEDIUM, STRONG are independent performances.
Three performances with clear titles that give an indication of what you may expect.

LIGHT is a solo stage performance by Tijs Ceulemans. Just a few seconds, that is all death needs. He searches. He wants to explain what has happened to him.Those few seconds, he didn't get much more. He realises that what was before him was bound to win. MEDIUM If we could tell you all the details about dying, would you want to know them? There is a space waiting for 60 people. Five causes of death. Cancer. Misfortune. AIDS. A failing heart. Old age. Knowledge is power. Or maybe just the opposite? STRONG is an experience. A safe haven for...

LIGHT, MEDIUM, STRONG
are three productions that each touch upon one of the many facets of death; time, knowledge and the irrevocable respectively.
The complexity of the subject and the complexity of the (different) moments of death, made us choose to create three productions.
LIGHT, MEDIUM, STRONG are independent performances.
Three performances with clear titles that give an indication of what you may expect.

LIGHT is a solo stage performance by Tijs Ceulemans. Just a few seconds, that is all death needs. He searches. He wants to explain what has happened to him.Those few seconds, he didn't get much more. He realises that what was before him was bound to win. MEDIUM If we could tell you all the details about dying, would you want to know them? There is a space waiting for 60 people. Five causes of death. Cancer. Misfortune. AIDS. A failing heart. Old age. Knowledge is power. Or maybe just the opposite? STRONG is an experience. A safe haven for...

Leentje Vandenbussche + PETER AERS, TIJS CEULEMANS

LIGHT MEDIUM STRONG

LIGHT

LIGHT, MEDIUM, STRONG
are three productions that each touch upon one of the many facets of death; time, knowledge and the irrevocable respectively.
The complexity of the subject and the complexity of the (different) moments of death, made us choose to create three productions.
LIGHT, MEDIUM, STRONG are independent performances.
Three performances with clear titles that give an indication of what you may expect.

LIGHT is a solo stage performance by Tijs Ceulemans. Just a few seconds, that is all death needs. He searches. He wants to explain what has happened to him.Those few seconds, he didn't get much more. He realises that what was before him was bound to win. MEDIUM If we could tell you all the details about dying, would you want to know them? There is a space waiting for 60 people. Five causes of death. Cancer. Misfortune. AIDS. A failing heart. Old age. Knowledge is power. Or maybe just the opposite? STRONG is an experience. A safe haven for...

On an enormous canvas, writer, designer, theatre maker and visual artist Bernard Van Eeghem paints the highlights of both world and art history, from the beginning of the world until the birth of painting. One thing always leads to another: his performance is a never-ending story, a powerful experience for the audience.

Bernard Van Eeghem + Catherine Graindorge

cognac

Première

A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, à 37º le matin et au péril de son coeur, Adolphe, un homme venu de la nuit ainsi qu’un héros très discret, à voix basse, déclare son amour à Fanfan. Dans la plus grande joie où deux et deux font trois comme à travers le feu, ils s’en vont, elle et lui, d’un château à l’autre, la terre sur les épaules, à travers le blé qui lève comme une symphonie pastorale et en traversant les carrefours des solitudes, le coeur en poche comme si notre prison était un royaume. Mais un jour d’orage, le vent de la haine, comme un éclat de rire, atterrit dans le village englouti et la belle alliance s’en va et les nuits fauves accouchent enfin une sombre histoire comme un sac de billes et sa cendre. Plus tard, dans un pays lointain, les enfants aux cheveux gris, Fanfan et Adolphe, tous les deux immobiles dans le courant du fleuve, sous les étoiles de minuit, ils attendent l’heure de leur mort. Puis passe une caravane sans chameaux. Bonjour tristesse.

Leentje Vandenbussche + PETER AERS, TIJS CEULEMANS

LIGHT MEDIUM STRONG

STRONG

LIGHT, MEDIUM, STRONG
are three productions that each touch upon one of the many facets of death; time, knowledge and the irrevocable respectively.
The complexity of the subject and the complexity of the (different) moments of death, made us choose to create three productions.
LIGHT, MEDIUM, STRONG are independent performances.
Three performances with clear titles that give an indication of what you may expect.

LIGHT is a solo stage performance by Tijs Ceulemans. Just a few seconds, that is all death needs. He searches. He wants to explain what has happened to him.Those few seconds, he didn't get much more. He realises that what was before him was bound to win. MEDIUM If we could tell you all the details about dying, would you want to know them? There is a space waiting for 60 people. Five causes of death. Cancer. Misfortune. AIDS. A failing heart. Old age. Knowledge is power. Or maybe just the opposite? STRONG is an experience. A safe haven for...

Welcome To the Jungle is a performance installation inspired by the potential implications of the ecological term ‘global weirding’.

Using a labyrinth of various mirror foils, Welcome To the Jungle proposes a 'house of mirrors' where the audience, inside of the space, has to navigate trying to find which way is which. Smells designed by perfumer Laurent-David Garnier, a set designed in collaboration with scenographer Erki De Vries, as well as water mists, temperature fluctuations, wind, and vibration applied to the frames of the mirror foils are used to create an immaterial yet nevertheless sensorial parcours for the audience. The costuming of audience and performers alike...

Phenomena, the first group choreography created by Vardarou, is inspired by Hardcore Research on Dance (2012), a solo created around the origins of her personal way of movement.

'Phenomena' are humanly provoked events, moments of tiny contents that surface, outbursts of statements, emptiness, reactions and enhancements of a narrative that is turbulently being shaped. In Phenomena the Greek choreographer Georgia Vardarou focuses on the personal, individual movement. Three dancers make their own movement language and their own trail. The choreography seems to emerge spontaneously. Conflict and harmony determine the storyline. The only boundaries are the theatrical space and the need to give meaning to the...

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

Monique finds its inspiration in bondage, turning its practice into choreographic instructions. How does one pervert a “perverse” act?
A similar strategy has been applied to all the elements in Monique: all collaborators were searching for disrespectful ways of working with elements they adored.

Different bodily techniques are thus subverted, happily mixed up within the endless horizon of well-known images of the moving body such as gymnastics, contemporary dance, modern dance, sex games, a range of movement therapies... "SM meets action art meets contact improvisation meets les ballets russes". Monique is a dance duet, starting as a set of quiet rituals and evolving into an homage to theater dance of the last century, whose emblematic costumes have been referenced by An Breugelmans' creations. The aesthetic of Monique is found...

Faire un Four is an expression from the 17th century theatre world which means “to suffer a defeat”. Literally it is “to make an oven” but it almost sounds like “to make a four” hence “a quartet”.

How do we recognize something as something? Anybody as somebody? Faire un Four takes four people and their dances as its starting point. It is not interested in individualism but in reworking the four as a multiple space layering ways of doing things with dance, after a long practice of interpreting, altering and adapting each other's movements. Four solos (prologue) generate the basis for each evening while the actual piece constructs a scenic architecture for performers and spectators to process what they perceive, since to...

In Sitting with the Body 24/7, a small group of people retreats into a shop window in the city centre for a week. They perform ordinary activities there: sitting, lying, walking, standing, making things, seeing, dancing and speaking.

The fixed timetable and the concentration on one activity at a time are the conditions that provide the opportunity for physical introspection. By tracing and acknowledging physical perceptions and intentions, the performers try to give voice to what usually lies hidden in the human body. At the same time, Sitting with the Body 24/7 relates to an urban environment and the possible disruptions it may bring. The passer-by is invited to participate in this paradoxical retreat in public space by watching the actions or by entering the space and...
Since the mid-19th century, America and its westward expansion became synonymous with ideals of the pursuit of individual freedom. In this case, it was Man against the Land, and it was clearly Man's right to win.The extent to which this expansion has succeeded is evident in our current hyper-globalized economy. But at the same moment that we become aware of how pervasive this success has been, we find that the project of the individual over his environment raises serious doubts and anxieties.With three cowboys and a gigantic inflatable set,...

Merlin Spie will take part in the summer group exhibition Sponsored by Nature at the Verbeke Foundation, Belgium. She will be working as an artist is residence from february, until the opening in may.


 Since 2000 Merlin Spie is especially known as a LIVE ART performance artist, nevertheless the relationship with fine art was always very present.
Merlin Spie’s work manages to evoke various and deep layers through a process of physical & mental transformation. This critical approach and her organic creation process have resulted in drawings, installations, mixed media and eventually in performances. 

Before 2000 her work evolved into large constructions and she worked with materials such as butter and pear syrup. For this exhibition she will work further on that typical older work.

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

Bernard Van Eeghem is a theatre-maker, artist and writer. In Sanglier these activities are combined more than ever.
** nominated as ‘best performace’ for the “prix de la critique 2012” **

Van Eeghem tells anecdotes from his youth in Bruges. One day his father took him to the procession of the Holy Blood. It made an indelible impression. In this performance, Van Eeghem paints what he tells and tells what he paints. Ending up with himself and his earliest beginnings. ...

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

Works of science fiction give us an insight into a future civilization by telling the adventures of one of its individual inhabitants. Some use for your broken clay pots, on the contrary, provides us with the code that rules the life of the society it imagines.

The future is apprehended the other way around: it is up to us to picture what the adventures of our individual lives would be like under a defined set of new conditions. Developed in collaboration with a team of experts from different Belgian universities, Some use for your broken clay pots is a theatre piece whose script is the constitutional text for a democratic state that does not yet exist....

Pieter De Buysser + Hans Op de Beeck

Book Burning

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

The Lac of Signs is a solo for dancer Chrysa Parkinson. Based, in one way or another, or another, or another on the classic Swan Lake (Le Lac Des Cygnes), The Lac of Signs will be presented in two separate formats, a libretto- booklet and a hologram video projection.

At what point in the history of dance was it that the use of narrative became unpopular and moreover, un-cool? The historical avant-garde of dance rejected fiction as an apparatus which distracted viewers from the real and from real materiality- of the body, of thought, of new modes of experience. Fairy tales were clearly no longer acceptable, and their legacy in dance and performance still remains dubious at best today. But did we throw out the baby with the bathwater when we got rid of storytelling in our attempt to rid performance of its...

“When I travel through my room, I rarely follow a straight line, I go from the table towards a picture hanging in a corner, from there I only want to encounter the door, when I begin it is always my intention to get there, but then I meet my armchair en route and I don’t think twice and settle down in it without further ado” Xavier De Maistre, Voyage autour de ma chambre

Bernard Van Eeghem is a theatre-maker, artist and writer. In Sanglier these activities are combined more than ever.
** nominated as ‘best performace’ for the “prix de la critique 2012” **

Van Eeghem tells anecdotes from his youth in Bruges. One day his father took him to the procession of the Holy Blood. It made an indelible impression. In this performance, Van Eeghem paints what he tells and tells what he paints. Ending up with himself and his earliest beginnings. ...

For their project This place, Marcos Simoes and Sara Manente invite an “artistic couple” to share for two weeks a working space and a number of practices. The project consists of seven variations with seven different couples. By doing so, This place intends to keep on ‘displacing’ itself, its proposal, its performativity and its context. The project consists of every single as well as all variations together.

At the beginning of the two weeks of residency, Manente & Simoes, together with the couple consult a Tarot reader to find out the bond of the artistic couple and answers to their questions such as - how will the two weeks be? Which problems will we be facing, how will we take certain decisions, how will the performance end? As a starting point, Manente and Simoes propose to each couple the same kit of practices created out of experiences of ESP (extra sensorial perceptions) in the form of a manual of instructions for performance.These...

Bernard Van Eeghem is a theatre-maker, artist and writer. In Sanglier these activities are combined more than ever.
** nominated as ‘best performace’ for the “prix de la critique 2012” **

Van Eeghem tells anecdotes from his youth in Bruges. One day his father took him to the procession of the Holy Blood. It made an indelible impression. In this performance, Van Eeghem paints what he tells and tells what he paints. Ending up with himself and his earliest beginnings. ...

Bernard Van Eeghem is a theatre-maker, artist and writer. In Sanglier these activities are combined more than ever.
** nominated as ‘best performace’ for the “prix de la critique 2012” **

Van Eeghem tells anecdotes from his youth in Bruges. One day his father took him to the procession of the Holy Blood. It made an indelible impression. In this performance, Van Eeghem paints what he tells and tells what he paints. Ending up with himself and his earliest beginnings. ...

The Lac of Signs is a solo for dancer Chrysa Parkinson. Based, in one way or another, or another, or another on the classic Swan Lake (Le Lac Des Cygnes), The Lac of Signs will be presented in two separate formats, a libretto- booklet and a hologram video projection.

At what point in the history of dance was it that the use of narrative became unpopular and moreover, un-cool? The historical avant-garde of dance rejected fiction as an apparatus which distracted viewers from the real and from real materiality- of the body, of thought, of new modes of experience. Fairy tales were clearly no longer acceptable, and their legacy in dance and performance still remains dubious at best today. But did we throw out the baby with the bathwater when we got rid of storytelling in our attempt to rid performance of its...

Pieter De Buysser + Hans Op de Beeck

Book Burning

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

Wallifornië is often described as a land diffifcult to access, where forests still grow luxuriantly, where beer floats spontaneously from the home taps. Many are those who believe that ‘Wallifornië ” is a name derived from the earthly paradise that was destroyed during the floods. Claptrap!

"Wallifornië or Wallifornia " would have more to do with the first Flemish climate refugees. They were terribly weakened by the rising waters that flooded their fields, were given shelter by the locals and christened the area "Wallifornia. 'Walli' for 'high' referring to the many hills, and 'fornia' from 'furnus', 'oven', to the warmth of its inhabitants. Theater maker Manah Depauw and visual artist Cathy Weyders join hands together to reach the elusive wallifornië in all safety together with the public. During the trip on their...

Sidney Leoni

HERTZ

Première

Hertz, the performance-concert by choreographer Sidney Leoni, is subject to obscurity, high sound pressure levels, vibrations and fog.

Created together with sound artist Frédéric Alstadt, lighting designer Jan Fedinger, musicians Kjetil Brandsdal, Morten J. Olsen, Jonathan Saldanha and performers Martin Lervik and Stina Nyberg, Hertz destabilizes the convention of “watching" performances by challenging our accustomed use of our senses. While our eyes are deprived of the last bit of visible light in the theater, sounds are layered upon each other with a density and intensity that drastically delays (re)cognition, orientation and understanding. Rather than...

Wallifornië is often described as a land diffifcult to access, where forests still grow luxuriantly, where beer floats spontaneously from the home taps. Many are those who believe that ‘Wallifornië ” is a name derived from the earthly paradise that was destroyed during the floods. Claptrap!

"Wallifornië or Wallifornia " would have more to do with the first Flemish climate refugees. They were terribly weakened by the rising waters that flooded their fields, were given shelter by the locals and christened the area "Wallifornia. 'Walli' for 'high' referring to the many hills, and 'fornia' from 'furnus', 'oven', to the warmth of its inhabitants. Theater maker Manah Depauw and visual artist Cathy Weyders join hands together to reach the elusive wallifornië in all safety together with the public. During the trip on their...

Phenomena, the first group choreography created by Vardarou, is inspired by Hardcore Research on Dance (2012), a solo created around the origins of her personal way of movement.

'Phenomena' are humanly provoked events, moments of tiny contents that surface, outbursts of statements, emptiness, reactions and enhancements of a narrative that is turbulently being shaped. In Phenomena the Greek choreographer Georgia Vardarou focuses on the personal, individual movement. Three dancers make their own movement language and their own trail. The choreography seems to emerge spontaneously. Conflict and harmony determine the storyline. The only boundaries are the theatrical space and the need to give meaning to the...

Monique finds its inspiration in bondage, turning its practice into choreographic instructions. How does one pervert a “perverse” act?
A similar strategy has been applied to all the elements in Monique: all collaborators were searching for disrespectful ways of working with elements they adored.

Different bodily techniques are thus subverted, happily mixed up within the endless horizon of well-known images of the moving body such as gymnastics, contemporary dance, modern dance, sex games, a range of movement therapies... "SM meets action art meets contact improvisation meets les ballets russes". Monique is a dance duet, starting as a set of quiet rituals and evolving into an homage to theater dance of the last century, whose emblematic costumes have been referenced by An Breugelmans' creations. The aesthetic of Monique is found...

Welcome To the Jungle is a performance installation inspired by the potential implications of the ecological term ‘global weirding’.

Using a labyrinth of various mirror foils, Welcome To the Jungle proposes a 'house of mirrors' where the audience, inside of the space, has to navigate trying to find which way is which. Smells designed by perfumer Laurent-David Garnier, a set designed in collaboration with scenographer Erki De Vries, as well as water mists, temperature fluctuations, wind, and vibration applied to the frames of the mirror foils are used to create an immaterial yet nevertheless sensorial parcours for the audience. The costuming of audience and performers alike...

Monique finds its inspiration in bondage, turning its practice into choreographic instructions. How does one pervert a “perverse” act?
A similar strategy has been applied to all the elements in Monique: all collaborators were searching for disrespectful ways of working with elements they adored.

Different bodily techniques are thus subverted, happily mixed up within the endless horizon of well-known images of the moving body such as gymnastics, contemporary dance, modern dance, sex games, a range of movement therapies... "SM meets action art meets contact improvisation meets les ballets russes". Monique is a dance duet, starting as a set of quiet rituals and evolving into an homage to theater dance of the last century, whose emblematic costumes have been referenced by An Breugelmans' creations. The aesthetic of Monique is found...

And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? – Gen. 3:9

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A cruel and confusing place, where the banished man finds refuge. Where he is confronted with forces that are beyond his understanding. At times it rains fire and brimstone, at times only drops of water, but weeks at a time, until everything has been engulfed. There is nothing as confusing, however, as the forces he discovers in himself: jealousy, desire, bloodlust. But the most ungraspable feeling of all is love. In his latest production, Thomas Ryckewaert takes on one of the most paradoxical masterpieces of world literature: Genesis,...

The Lac of Signs is a solo for dancer Chrysa Parkinson. Based, in one way or another, or another, or another on the classic Swan Lake (Le Lac Des Cygnes), The Lac of Signs will be presented in two separate formats, a libretto- booklet and a hologram video projection.

At what point in the history of dance was it that the use of narrative became unpopular and moreover, un-cool? The historical avant-garde of dance rejected fiction as an apparatus which distracted viewers from the real and from real materiality- of the body, of thought, of new modes of experience. Fairy tales were clearly no longer acceptable, and their legacy in dance and performance still remains dubious at best today. But did we throw out the baby with the bathwater when we got rid of storytelling in our attempt to rid performance of its...

Leentje Vandenbussche doesn’t only make performative pieces, her work also takes the shape of a visual arts practice. It is often in preparation of her performances, that (monk-like) graphical work and publications come to life, in a quest to overcome linguistics, and to visualize data. A human being tries to understand. The research method of Leentje Vandenbussche verges on insanity. By means of different drudgeries she has looked for something to hold on to in the vast subjects of all and nothing. Carried by (/subordinated to) an isolated, monotonous rhythm, her research studies give intriguing results. A fascinating view on all and nothing, a look behind the scenes of the performances.

An overview of former projects, dating from 2005 till today, is listed below.

The Hapax Legomenon of Waiting for Godot. 1st stage: Festival M² – De Tijd (november 08) DVD (+/- 50 min) All on canvas: the World/ my World. A satellite picture of planet earth is projected onto a white canvas. With the Dymo (sticker-print device) at the ready the nominating starts. Everything that is visible (transparent stickers): green, cloud, water... Everything that is visible, but of which you know that it is there (paper white stickers): a village, a street, McDonalds... Associations with what is there (stickers in...

The Myth of the Great Transition is a philosophical tale full of wild beasts, joy and resistance.

Being alive is a mysterious miracle that can make us delirious with happiness. And yet things are not going well for us. Environmental catastrophes are imminent, and socio-economic disaster looms… People may have different opinions, but everyone knows the facts. The realization that we all have to make a great transition to a different model of society has been so widely accepted that it has been cast aside like a cliché. Been there, done that? Wrong. You have not been there yet. You might say, 'No, thank you. To believe that mankind...

For their project This place, Marcos Simoes and Sara Manente invite an “artistic couple” to share for two weeks a working space and a number of practices. The project consists of seven variations with seven different couples. By doing so, This place intends to keep on ‘displacing’ itself, its proposal, its performativity and its context. The project consists of every single as well as all variations together.

At the beginning of the two weeks of residency, Manente & Simoes, together with the couple consult a Tarot reader to find out the bond of the artistic couple and answers to their questions such as - how will the two weeks be? Which problems will we be facing, how will we take certain decisions, how will the performance end? As a starting point, Manente and Simoes propose to each couple the same kit of practices created out of experiences of ESP (extra sensorial perceptions) in the form of a manual of instructions for performance.These...

Monique finds its inspiration in bondage, turning its practice into choreographic instructions. How does one pervert a “perverse” act?
A similar strategy has been applied to all the elements in Monique: all collaborators were searching for disrespectful ways of working with elements they adored.

Different bodily techniques are thus subverted, happily mixed up within the endless horizon of well-known images of the moving body such as gymnastics, contemporary dance, modern dance, sex games, a range of movement therapies... "SM meets action art meets contact improvisation meets les ballets russes". Monique is a dance duet, starting as a set of quiet rituals and evolving into an homage to theater dance of the last century, whose emblematic costumes have been referenced by An Breugelmans' creations. The aesthetic of Monique is found...

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...

The Lac of Signs is a solo for dancer Chrysa Parkinson. Based, in one way or another, or another, or another on the classic Swan Lake (Le Lac Des Cygnes), The Lac of Signs will be presented in two separate formats, a libretto- booklet and a hologram video projection.

At what point in the history of dance was it that the use of narrative became unpopular and moreover, un-cool? The historical avant-garde of dance rejected fiction as an apparatus which distracted viewers from the real and from real materiality- of the body, of thought, of new modes of experience. Fairy tales were clearly no longer acceptable, and their legacy in dance and performance still remains dubious at best today. But did we throw out the baby with the bathwater when we got rid of storytelling in our attempt to rid performance of its...

For their project This place, Marcos Simoes and Sara Manente invite an “artistic couple” to share for two weeks a working space and a number of practices. The project consists of seven variations with seven different couples. By doing so, This place intends to keep on ‘displacing’ itself, its proposal, its performativity and its context. The project consists of every single as well as all variations together.

At the beginning of the two weeks of residency, Manente & Simoes, together with the couple consult a Tarot reader to find out the bond of the artistic couple and answers to their questions such as - how will the two weeks be? Which problems will we be facing, how will we take certain decisions, how will the performance end? As a starting point, Manente and Simoes propose to each couple the same kit of practices created out of experiences of ESP (extra sensorial perceptions) in the form of a manual of instructions for performance.These...

Gaëtan Rusquet

Meanwhile,

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Meanwhile, is a work about bodies, architectures, and disasters. The performers are evolving in a set that could be an architectural model or installation. Constantly, they have to deal with a destruction’s threat on what they build. By playing with scales, the body within the space ranges from power to helplessness.

The raw materality of the set, the physicality of the sound and the necessity of the movement turn this work into a contemplative and expanded time experience. Here or there, this is a journey in the history of a city....

History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else can we add? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories.

Told by a cat, Book Burning is the story of a man who lights up while his daughter plunges into the trunk. Perhaps it is a fable. It could be a political, even a utopian play. Not because it soakes in good intentions and programs, but because it bets on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is but what it can become: a proposal for the beginning of a new world. " A tribute to critical thought, the knowledge, humour and art of narration.(Cobra, BE) "The alliance of the poetics...