DELIRIUM
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
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
Light design:
Henri Emmanuel Doublier
Light:
Pieter Kinoli
Sound:
Ditten Lerooij
Assistant director:
Marius Lefevre
Production manager:
Sylvie Svanberg
Technical coordination:
Marjolein Demey
Outside eye:
Danai Anesiadou, Giocomo Bisordi
General management:
Saskia Liénard
Distribution:
Frans Brood Productions
Partners:
Kaaitheater, Brussel (BE), Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussel (BE), La Biennale de la Danse and Hermès, Lyon (FR), Tanzquartier, Wenen (DE), Parc et Grande Halle de la Villette & Festival d’Automne, Parijs (FR), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxemburg (LU), NTGent, Gent (BE)
Co – producers:
Tandem Scène Nationale, Arras/Douai (FR), Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE), Le Lieu Unique, Nantes (FR), Romaeuropa Festival, Rome (IT), Theaterfestival Boulevard, ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL), Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto (PT), Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (AE)

