Project for Upcoming artists for the Large Stage.
Four young directors ask, investigate and play the grand hall.
Follow their projects, their work process and their dialogue.
Kuiperskaai and Maxim Rouquart released the album For our Mothers, a compilation of the music of Hamlet.
Maxime Rouquart - composition
Claire Chevallier - pianoforte
Simon Lenski - cello, recording/mixing engineer
Wietse Beels - violin
Kristof Roseeuw - double bass
Listen here
Bosse Provoost talks to Subbacultcha Belgium about his piece Matisklo and how he experiences working at Toneelhuis for the project P.U.L.S.: "To be supported and be a full time artist is rare for someone in the first years of his artistic development".
Read the full article here
Lisaboa, Bosse, Timeau and Hannah encounter Meg Stuart at NTGent, following the presentation of her shows that she recently performed in Belgium (Shown and Told, in cooperation with Tim Etchells; Built to Last; UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP).
“You should always give everything as if you don’t know afterwards what to do anymore”. (Meg Stuart)
Meg Stuart (1965) is an American choreographer and dancer, living and working in Brussels and Berlin. Her company, Damaged Goods, is based in Brussels since 1994.
"Intrigued, irritated, frustrated, embarrassed, touched - all that and more I was when I was back on the street an hour after I started. Rarely did I experience such a strange theatre evening, but never before did I feel that poetry was being staged more accurately. "
- Carl De Strycker in Poëziekrant, January-February edition
P.U.L.S. - a state of play
the four-year pathway for new makers for the big stage is in fact already over halfway. So it is time to take a look back and to look forward.
'How can you react to the fragile state of the world through performance?' Theatre-makers and peers Hannah De Meyer and Anne-Laure Vandeputte reflect on a generation torn between doubt and activism. With their bodies they offer a (cautious) answer to what it means to make theatre today.
Read the whole article in Dutch here.