19 — 22.05.2016
Miet Warlop Brussels
Fruits of Labor
performance — premiere
⧖ 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.
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
