We recommend the programme above age 8.
Out of the darkness of the stage, a procession of images step into the light, setting performers and objects in motion. Seemingly unconnected figures, sculptures, tableaux vivants claim their ground like theatrical creatures. Mystery Magnet sketches out a haunted world where humour is born from sadness and magic from the prosaic.
The Belgian visual artist and theatre maker Miet Warlop has created another show made of moments of fragile illusionism, where fantasy and reality coexist. Mystery Magnet channels the contemporary surreal, a terrain where freakish cuteness and desensitized cruelty, glittering promises and unstoppable destruction share a common space.
„If you look at theatre and its tradition, I think this is the furthest away you can get. This has a lot to do with Miet Warlop who is the actor-director. She comes from the arts academy here in Ghent and her background is in visual art – there is no dramatic background in that sense. […] Everything starts with images for Miet. But another starting point is very often slap-stick which she is very interested in and it’s obviously theatrical. She works with images yes, but moving images. And there’s a very clear dramaturgy and development of the production which is theatrical. Actually I’m not sure that you could call this theatre, it’s more like performing art that brings a lot of things together.” (from an interview with Kristof Bloom, the artistic director of the production house (Campo) that promotes Miet Warlop)
Concept & Direction: Miet Warlop
Performance: Christian Bakalov, Kristof Coenen, Sofie Durnez, Wietse Tanghe, Laura Vanborm, Miet Warlop and others
Scenography: Miet Warlop
Assistance Scenography: Sofie Durnez & Ian Gyselinck
Outside Eye: Nicolas Provost
In Conversation With: Namik Mackic
Technique: Piet Depoortere
Production: CAMPO
Co-Production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels & Göteborg Dance & Theatre Festival in the frame of NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union and arts centre Vooruit Ghent.
www.mietwarlop.com
Out of the darkness of the stage, a procession of images step into the light, setting performers and objects in motion. Seemingly unconnected figures, sculptures, tableaux vivants claim their ground like theatrical creatures. Mystery Magnet sketches out a haunted world where humour is born from sadness and magic from the prosaic.
The Belgian visual artist and theatre maker Miet Warlop has created another show made of moments of fragile illusionism, where fantasy and reality coexist. Mystery Magnet channels the contemporary surreal, a terrain where freakish cuteness and desensitized cruelty, glittering promises and unstoppable destruction share a common space.
„If you look at theatre and its tradition, I think this is the furthest away you can get. This has a lot to do with Miet Warlop who is the actor-director. She comes from the arts academy here in Ghent and her background is in visual art – there is no dramatic background in that sense. […] Everything starts with images for Miet. But another starting point is very often slap-stick which she is very interested in and it’s obviously theatrical. She works with images yes, but moving images. And there’s a very clear dramaturgy and development of the production which is theatrical. Actually I’m not sure that you could call this theatre, it’s more like performing art that brings a lot of things together.” (from an interview with Kristof Bloom, the artistic director of the production house (Campo) that promotes Miet Warlop)
Concept & Direction: Miet Warlop
Performance: Christian Bakalov, Kristof Coenen, Sofie Durnez, Wietse Tanghe, Laura Vanborm, Miet Warlop and others
Scenography: Miet Warlop
Assistance Scenography: Sofie Durnez & Ian Gyselinck
Outside Eye: Nicolas Provost
In Conversation With: Namik Mackic
Technique: Piet Depoortere
Production: CAMPO
Co-Production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels & Göteborg Dance & Theatre Festival in the frame of NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union and arts centre Vooruit Ghent.
www.mietwarlop.com
