8th OPEN THE DOOR International Festival – EXIT (Belgium)

textCircumstances

OPEN THE DOOR International Festival Other 50 minutes

Dwie osoby podtrzymujące nad swoimi głowami mężczyznę, który głowę ma skierowaną w dół, a nogi w górę, stopę ma zahaczoną o klamkę, drzwi, które są na wysokości pierwszego piętra; zdjęcie w kolorze pomarańczowego

An extraordinarily spectacular, circus-acrobatic performance in which the title ‘exit’ becomes the starting point for an endless flow of surprising situations and acrobatic actions. EXIT shows the meeting of four people – appearing and disappearing, colliding, climbing, balancing each other, but also out of balance, arriving and departing. We are, after all, always on the move, but what if we can never get home? The artists’ delightful dexterity is combined here with beautiful movement, conceived with almost choreographic precision, affecting the audience’s imagination and evoking many associations with the situations they are watching – the search for a way out, but also for home, leaving, going on a journey, neighbouring. The door is, after all, an image that evokes many meanings, and it is the door that is an essential part of the set design of this unique performance.

As part of the festival, the performance will be presented in Katowice and Dąbrowa Górnicza.

The artistic group Circumstances is a team of artists from different countries creating unique performances combining dance, acrobatics and circus elements. Each of them brings their specialist knowledge and skills to the process of creating the performance. The group’s work is coordinated by Piet Van Dycke, who is responsible for the concept and choreography of the “EXIT” performance.

Cast

performers
Benedikt Löffler, Harrison Claxton, Christopher Mc Auley, Samuel Rhyner

Creative and production team

Concept, choreography
Piet Van Dycke
Music
Bastiaan van Vuuren/Bastian Benjamin
Dramaturgy
Marie Peeters
Installation
Arjan Kruidhof and Arjen Schoneveld
Scenographic support
Menno Boerdam
Technique
Casper Van Overschee
Research
Bavo De Smedt, Marius Cavin and Raff Pringuet
Coproduction
Festival Circolo, DansBrabant, Theater op de Markt-Dommelhof, HET LAB Hasselt, Circ’uit, Miramiro, Cirklabo
with support of
PLAN, Stad Leuven, Grensverleggers/deBuren

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