19 — 22.05.2016

Miet Warlop Brussels

Fruits of Labor

performance — premiere

Zinnema

⧖ 50min | € 16 / € 13 | Meet the artists after the performance on 20/05

Miet Warlop sways between theatre and the visual arts. At the Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2012, she presented Mystery Magnet, painting an explosive canvas of people and objects. This year, she brings Fruits of Labor, a sizzling performance of sculpture and music. In the centre is a runaway, beating drum set around which a life develops. Everything and everyone is constantly changing, dictated by the rhythm of the drum. A motley crew of musicians and performers puts its collective finger on the artery of the world. Warlop plays with the perception of time and cracks the laws of physics, cobbling together the broken pieces to achieve a new equilibrium. Fruits of Labor is a perpetual mobile that depicts the bottomless vortex of the world and breaks through the boundaries of theatre. It’s a wild and crazy trip that absorbs and vibrates, shimmers and endures.

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Fruits of Labor

There was once a white line.

And another line.

With force they were inhaled. But not through the nose.

In a performance with a heightened awareness.

The awareness of whom?

A heightened unconscious perhaps.

A performance of what?

The human. The thing.

The metamorphosis. The metamorphosis in a constant state of metamorphosis.

Actors and objects. No hierarchy.

An altar. The eucharist. The body is abandoned.

Welcome to the world above. Welcome to the underworld.

The song swells. Guitars and drums.

Twirling sculptures.

An accomplishment. An accomplishment of what?

Of panic. The loneliness. The fear.

Straight through the madness.

In the direction of catharsis.

Powder is sprinkled. ‘I need your love’ is being sung. A voice turns into the sound of a machine.

Passion, always driven.

The form in pursuit of meaning.

Running in the direction of desire?

The performance is a shaman that lets the forces of the world move through him,

spinning, jolting, swinging, and eventually falling down exhausted. Then everything goes quiet.

Oscar van den Boogaard

May 2016

Concept & direction

Miet Warlop

Assisted by

Barbara Vackier (sculptures), Ian Gyselinck & Sander Vos (moving constructions)

Music & performance

Miet Warlop, Joppe Tanghe, Wietse Tanghe, Tim Coenen, Seppe Cosyns

Costumes

Sofie Durnez, Karolien Nuytens, An Breugelmans

Technical director

Hugh Roche Kelly

Sound technique

Saul Mombaerts, Pieter-Jan Coppejans

Light design

Henri Emmanuel Doublier

Production leader

Seppe Cosyns

Manager

Bob Van Langendonck

Associate production manager

Maria-Carmela Mini

Thanks to

Les Ballets C de la B (Ghent), Stijn Kenens, Bram Coeman, Michiel Dasseville, Karel Vanhooren, Elke Vanlerberghe, Michiel De Wilde, Nicolas Provost, Stephen Dewaele, Michiel Goedertier, Arlette Goethals, Sparks-efx, Danai Anesiadou, Geert Viane, Koen de Meyer, Bram Coeman, Paul Warlop

Presentation

Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Zinnema

Producer

Irene Wool (Ghent)

Associate producer

Latitudes Contemporaines (Lille)

Co-production

Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Vooruit (Gent), Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk), La Villette (Paris), PACT Zollverein (Essen), La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Gessnerallee Zürich, Kampnagel – International Summer Festival Hamburg (Hamburg), Dublin Theatre Festival (Dublin)

Supported by

Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Vlaamse Overheid, Stad Gent

This project is co-produced by

NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union

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