Spectacles

Genres and atmospheres, operateske dada blues punk pop, a high-pitched voice, dark beats and theatricality make spring of this grandly intimate spectacle.

“... A spirit feared by the state is an awake one, awakening spirits, empowering spirits, this spirit can rise, once again, it can appear, like a transfiguring evening glow in whose light the evil day that proceeded...it could be forgotten! It could be some futuristic moment yet-to-come! That, that I would like, the nights cleared out, pain transfigured, spectacles affecting us again, touching us again, for real, appearing again, awakening spirits: touch me again!”  (Louise van den Eede)

Countertenor, performer and opera director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe and producer Laurens Mariën join forces once again for an electronic concert that navigates between a spectacle and a love ritual. Together with dancer Hanako Hayakawa and writer Louise van den Eede they cherish hope for a different society; where people find each other around poppy fires, where spectacles have a liberating primal force, where all possible forms of love constantly exchange costumes.

Credits

• Concept | Direction | Performer • Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
• Concept | Composition | Performer • Laurens Mariën
• Concept | Dramaturgy • Louise Van den Eede
• Dance • Hanako Hayakawa
• Dramaturgy • Louise Van den Eede
• Styling • Paule Josephe
• Mixing • Jasper Segers
• Musical performance • Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe / The Unrequired Love
• Musicians recording • Mattias De Craene / Lander Gyselinck / David Nuwami