16 — 18.05

Mette Ingvartsen Brussels

Delirious Night

dance — premiere

Cultuurcentrum De Factorij

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Nighttime wants to be celebrated collectively as a space for pleasure and delight, yet is also dangerous and bewildering. What do the night hours bring that temporarily suspends daily duties and rules? Choreographer Mette Ingvartsen, after The Dancing Public, continues her research into historical dancing manias and is a guest of the festival for the first time with this new performance.

Nine performers indulge in a delirious night of dance and music, inspired by the anonymous freedom of masked balls, strange carnivals, and derailed parties. Their bodies are propelled by contagious outbreaks of unstoppable dance and immersed in an ocean of uncontrollable sensations. Sometimes they fight the strong current, other times they surrender to the wild waves. Accompanied by live music from Will Guthrie, the dancers effortlessly navigate between hedonism and exorcism, joy and sadness, their bodies thriving in an intoxicating mood of togetherness. How can a state of de-control and excess drive the crowd to act?

Ingvartsen approaches bodily excesses as a reaction to exhaustion, stress, and emotional strain connected to a contemporary desire for transgression and transcendence. The result is an intense ode to the freedom the night brings.

"When Mette Ingvartsen takes something on, she wants to understand everything about it." – Mia Vaerman, 2023, the low countries

"Mette Ingvartsen’s energy is contagious, her dance from time to time hectic or more measured, mostly dismantling sexiness and gifting her body pure freedom." (about The Dancing Public), 2022, Butterwort

16.05

  • 20:00

17.05

  • 20:00
  • + aftertalk

18.05

  • 17:00

Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater, Cultuurcentrum De Factorij
Concept and choreography: Mette Ingvartsen | Text and lyrics: Mette Ingvartsen, GRLwood, Sari and Romy Lightman | Performers: Dolores Hulan, Júlia Rúbies Subirós, Fouad Nafili, Jayson Batut, Mariana Miranda, Olivier Muller, Zoé Lakhnati, Thomas Bîrzan, Elisha Mercelina | Live music: Will Guthrie | Lighting design: Minna Tiikkainen | Dramaturgy: Bojana Cvejić | Costumes: Jennifer Defays | Vocal training and external ear: Fabienne Séveillac | Technical direction: Hans Meijer | Sound engineering: Milan Van Doren | Lighting technician: Bennert Vancottem | Technicians on tour: Jan-Simon De Lille, Filip Vilhemsson, Julien Rabin | Production management: Oihana Azpillaga Camio | Administration: Joey Ng | Communication: Jeroen Goffings | Management: Ruth Collier
Production: Great Investment | Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Charleroi danse, Le Lieu Unique, Cndc Angers, PACT Zollverein, Theater Rotterdam, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Théâtre National de Bretagne, Le Quartz, Festival Madrid en Danza, Perpodium, Festival d’Avignon
Residencies: Charleroi danse, Rosas, Le Lieu Unique, P.A.R.T.S. 
With the support of the Ammodo Foundation and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès 
Great Investment is supported by the Government of Flanders, the Flemish Community Commission (VGC), the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and the Danish Arts Council

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