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(c) Side Show
- Side show
- Premiere: 12 April 2025
- Age: +8 years
- Capacity: 85
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Today is inspired by the happenings of the 1960s: structured yet unrehearsed actions that allow room for spontaneity. Side-Show uses this form to create a shared experience with a diverse audience. The happening takes place in a familiar setting: a picnic. The audience sits on a large picnic blanket, chats, and listens to piano music while circus artists perform actions based on their own practice. The format provides guidance: pre-described scores and openness to surprise create a relaxed atmosphere. Today blurs the boundaries between theater and real life, allowing the audience and performers to share a spontaneous experience together.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Quintijn and Aline meet at ESAC Brussels, where Aline designs costumes for several graduation projects. Sharing a fascination for the traces that movement leaves behind, they establish the company Side-Show together in 2009. Their performances Wonders (2013), Spiegel im Spiegel (2017), Sho-Ichidô (2018), and Portraits (2021) are characterized by strong visual power. Shared artistic research plays a significant role, as seen in Permanent Laboratory: From A to B, a series of 10 residencies (2015-2016) with artists from dance, theater, circus, and visual arts. The goal: to develop a unique physical language in which the body is both object and subject. Quintijn and Aline are not only a company but also a family—their fusion of life and work is central to their artistic themes.
Concept & direction: Aline Breucker & Quintijn Ketels
Performers: Jessica Fanhan, Ségolène Neyroud, Shu-Huan Chang, Camille Bekkers
Scenography & costumes: Aline Breucker
Choreography: Quintijn Ketels
Music: Ségolène Neyroud
Dramaturgy: Vincent Focquet
Exercise advice: German Jauregui
Assistance costumes: Oanell Muzellec, Irma Morin
technical coordination and light design: Michiel Soete
Technical assistance and set construction: Andreas Ketels
Production: Thibaut Princen
Technicians: Korneel Moreaux, Lucas Vanhoutte
Photography: Jan Castermans
Circuswerkplaats Miramiro
Circuswerkplaats Dommelhof
Perpodium
GC De Kriekelaar
Halles de Schaerbeek