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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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,...
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....
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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...
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....
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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...
Actress/visual artist Dolores Bouckaert and dancer/choreographer Charlotte Vanden Eynde are both fascinated by the body. In Deceptive Bodies they focus on the representation of the theatrical body and the (mis)perception of it.
Throughout history, the female body has been especially subjected to a controlled gaze. Vanden Eynde and Bouckaert immersed themselves in the phenomenon of hysteria, focussing in particular on how hysterics turned into actresses of their own illness at the end of the 19th century. The inexplicable physical symptoms of these women were often highly aesthetic and theatrical. In the name of scientific research their bodies became a form of art in front of an audience or a camera. But how sincere was the language of their bodies? And to what...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Actress/visual artist Dolores Bouckaert and dancer/choreographer Charlotte Vanden Eynde are both fascinated by the body. In Deceptive Bodies they focus on the representation of the theatrical body and the (mis)perception of it.
Throughout history, the female body has been especially subjected to a controlled gaze. Vanden Eynde and Bouckaert immersed themselves in the phenomenon of hysteria, focussing in particular on how hysterics turned into actresses of their own illness at the end of the 19th century. The inexplicable physical symptoms of these women were often highly aesthetic and theatrical. In the name of scientific research their bodies became a form of art in front of an audience or a camera. But how sincere was the language of their bodies? And to what...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Actress/visual artist Dolores Bouckaert and dancer/choreographer Charlotte Vanden Eynde are both fascinated by the body. In Deceptive Bodies they focus on the representation of the theatrical body and the (mis)perception of it.
Throughout history, the female body has been especially subjected to a controlled gaze. Vanden Eynde and Bouckaert immersed themselves in the phenomenon of hysteria, focussing in particular on how hysterics turned into actresses of their own illness at the end of the 19th century. The inexplicable physical symptoms of these women were often highly aesthetic and theatrical. In the name of scientific research their bodies became a form of art in front of an audience or a camera. But how sincere was the language of their bodies? And to what...
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...
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...
Actress/visual artist Dolores Bouckaert and dancer/choreographer Charlotte Vanden Eynde are both fascinated by the body. In Deceptive Bodies they focus on the representation of the theatrical body and the (mis)perception of it.
Throughout history, the female body has been especially subjected to a controlled gaze. Vanden Eynde and Bouckaert immersed themselves in the phenomenon of hysteria, focussing in particular on how hysterics turned into actresses of their own illness at the end of the 19th century. The inexplicable physical symptoms of these women were often highly aesthetic and theatrical. In the name of scientific research their bodies became a form of art in front of an audience or a camera. But how sincere was the language of their bodies? And to what...
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.
...
Arising from an experiment in 2010, bureau annex is a developing practice for artists, concerned with the production of art in the ‘wilderness of urban milieus’.
The interest is to create first an affinity between people 'foreign' to one another and then, as a consequence, work together. This affinity is not there from the outset but man-made by an artificial behaviour: 'hanging out' regularly next and with people and in places at first sight completely unacquainted, the artist becomes present in a reality which naturally wouldn't become familiar. Following up first contact conversations s/he proposes to produce independent art works irregularly and occasionally but continually.
Drawing...
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....
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....
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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.
...
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....
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....
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...
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....
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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....
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....
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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....
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....
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,...
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,...
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.
...
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,...
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...
Aliciacarmen is an attempt to hammer away the logics of identity which underlie the dynamics of consumerism.
Armed with hammers, the performers insist again and again on the action of hammering. But in what way and to what end? Absent another object, the gesture of hitting a hammer announces itself like a series of loud questions. What does this object we think we know so well do when it's not being used to do the one thing we think its good for? Can a violent act impose the most subtle shifts in our logic?...
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....
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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...
It is under the heteronym Àlvaro de Campos that Fernando Pessoa (Lisbon, 1888-1935) composed his epic poem “Maritime Ode” in 1915.
In this tribute he unfolds, unravels and explores in a magisterial and yet poetical way the wide maritime world of his age. It is also a great journey of the mind in which, drawing on his absolute loneliness, the poet explores and even transgresses the borders of morality to nestle close to madness for a brief moment.
Bernard Van Eeghem performed this text in his own particular way nine years ago already. Today he approaches it with a whole new inspiration....
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....
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....
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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...
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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....
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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....
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...
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....
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
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....
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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....
Actress/visual artist Dolores Bouckaert and dancer/choreographer Charlotte Vanden Eynde are both fascinated by the body. In Deceptive Bodies they focus on the representation of the theatrical body and the (mis)perception of it.
Throughout history, the female body has been especially subjected to a controlled gaze. Vanden Eynde and Bouckaert immersed themselves in the phenomenon of hysteria, focussing in particular on how hysterics turned into actresses of their own illness at the end of the 19th century. The inexplicable physical symptoms of these women were often highly aesthetic and theatrical. In the name of scientific research their bodies became a form of art in front of an audience or a camera. But how sincere was the language of their bodies? And to what...
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...
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...
On stage, a collection of authentic objects that have played a unique role in history. Together with these, Pieter De Buysser, the galloper Zoltan and Abbas, his horse, are on a search for a lost future.
A joyful and desperate epic journey is taking off, with love and a glove, with Pavlov's bell and Aquinos' belly, with Yeltsin's last bottles and Walt Disney's meat knife. Can they turn time into a landscape with skiproads?
"Follow that man. Theatre as a gift. Theatre that liberates." **** De Morgen
"Theatre with horsepower." **** Knack
"De Buysser is a pickpocket of words." *** De Standaard
"A fabulous magician with stories that concern us." **** De Theaterkrant...
Bernard Van Eeghem. Who is this man? What motivates him? Where and why does he live?
Come and see IF, his brand-new show. Through a mix of disciplines and a sequence of acts at an incredibly fast pace, Bernard makes the audience get a grasp of what makes life worthwhile for him. Song and dance, mime and political statements, poetry and anecdotes, theatre and art history, it will all be covered at large. A performance that flies by, until reaching a thrilling climax that grabs you by the throat.
'Pouce!' is a remake of 'IF' in collaboration with Katja Dreyer, inwhich she reveals in a schematic way, the rather anonimous livestory of Bernard who at first is not visible on stage.
Thus it begins with a song, then another song and after that he dances or rather he moves in a very particular way, drawing circles of light, unveiling an enormous lookalike Picasso painting of his late portrait period i.e. just before the Second World War began. But don't mention the war! Yes, don't mention anything at all! Just sing and dance along, unfold...
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.
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...
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....
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...
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...
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