INHALE DELIRIUM EXHALE
After the immense success of her previous performance ONE SONG, Miet Warlop now creates an ode to imagination with Delirium, a wave of wonder and pleasure.
“Long waves beat diagonally against the beach, bulge hunchbacked with cords of muscle, raise quivering ridges that tip over at their very greenest. Crests stretched tight, already welted white, wrap around a cavity of air crushed by the clear mass like a secret made and then broken.”
– Uwe Jonhson, Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, trans. Damion Searls (New York: New York Review Books, 2018).
Describing Miet’s work reveals secrets that words can hardly capture. Wonder and pleasure drag you into a wave. It seems as if that round air cavity takes on the contours of Warlop’s skull where within the imagination infects a whole group around her, the imagination becomes collective and thus touches our imagination. But how do you interpret the capriciousness of that imagination on a stage? What is the deeper meaning of a wave rising and then crashing?
WORLD PREMIERE: 18th of May 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels
Concept, scenography and direction:Miet Warlop
Music:
in collaboration with DEEWEE
Performers:
Milan Schudel, Emiel Vandenberghe, Margarida Ramalhete, Lara Chedraoui, Mattis Clement, Elias Demuynck and others to be confirmed
Scenography:
Miet Warlop in collaboration with Mattis Clement
Costumes:
Miet Warlop in collaboration with Elias Demuynck supervised by Tom Van Der Borght
Internships: Nel Gevaerts / KITOS & Nana Bonsu, Sofia Ristori / Ursulinen Mechelen,
Textile creatives: Ginger Bogaert, Rowan Boeijen, Michelle Van Neste
Light design:
Henri Emmanuel Doublier
Light:
Pieter Kinoli
Sound:
Ditten Lerooij
Assistant director:
Marius Lefever
Production manager:
Sylvie Svanberg
Technical coordination:
Marjolein Demey
Outside eye:
Danai Anesiadou, Giacomo Bisordi
General management:
Saskia Liénard
Distribution:
Frans Brood Productions
coproducers & partners:
Delirium is a production by Irene Wool in coproduction with NTGent (BE) ,Kunstenfestivaldesarts & Kaaitheater Brussel (BE), La Biennale de Lyon (FR) & Holding Textile Hermès, Tanzquartier Wenen (DE), La Villette Parijs (FR), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxemburg (LU), , Tandem Scène Nationale Arras/Douai (FR), Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel Hamburg (DE), Le Lieu Unique Nantes (FR), Romaeuropa Festival Rome (IT), Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT), Theaterfestival Boulevard ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL), Athens & Epidaurus Festival (GR), Sharjah Art Foundation (AE), Temporada Alta – Festival internacional de Catalunya Girona/Salt (ES), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin). With the support of the Flemish Government, Stad Gent, Perpodium and Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government
thanks to:
Michelle Vosters , Jeroen Olyslaegers, Flup Beys, Micha Volders, Pol Heyvaert , Kenneth De Vos, Geert Viaene / Amotec, Florence Carlisi, LOD muziektheater, Milo Rau
