Music / Performance
Spectacles
Thu 07 Oct 2021Benjamin Abel & The Unrequired Love
“... 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 & opera director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe and producer Laurens Mariën join forces again for an electronic concert that fluctuates between being a spectacle and a love ritual. Various genres & vibes, operatic dada-blues-punk-pop, a high voice, dark beats & theatricality are what create the springtime of this grandly intimate spectacle. Together with dancer Hanako Hayakawa and writer Louise van den Eede , they cherish the hope for a different world; one in which people find one another around poppy fires, where spectacles have a freeing, primal power, where all possible forms of love continually switch costumes.
Tina Herbots
CONCEPT | REGIE | PERFORMER: BENJAMIN ABEL MEIRHAEGHE • CONCEPT | COMPOSITIE | PERFORMER: LAURENS MARIËN • CONCEPT | DRAMATURGIE: LOUISE VAN DEN EEDE • DANS: HANAKO HAYAKAWA • STYLING: PAULE JOSEPHE • MIXING: JASPER SEGERS • MUZIKANTEN OPNAME: MATTIAS DE CRAENE • LANDER GYSELINCK • DAVID NUMWAMI
Production:Muziektheater Transparant en d e t h e a t e r m a k e r
Co-production: Ancienne Belgique, STUK, Vooruit, DE Studio, Pilar, Het Nationale Theater and C-Takt
With the support of Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and the Flemish Government.
Co-production: Ancienne Belgique, STUK, Vooruit, DE Studio, Pilar, Het Nationale Theater and C-Takt
With the support of Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and the Flemish Government.