MIET WARLOP
Inhale Delirium Exhale
1h
What if delirium were not a loss of one’s bearings, instead a meeting place? A shared space where bodies, images, and thoughts reverberate in unison? With her new creation, Inhale Delirium Exhale, Miet Warlop gives form to a mental agitation, a sea of sensations, images, and materials in movement.
For more than twenty years, Warlop has electrified the stage with an oeuvre at the crossroads of a rock concert, visual performance, and theatre of objects. The Flemish artist creates a total theatre that is fiercely alive, where bodies lose control, materials go wild, and objects explode in a perfectly orchestrated chaos. Inhale Delirium Exhale pushes her explorations even further. This new work looks at what exceeds and escapes any logical narrative. Visions appear, disappear, and transform. Birds appear, bodies dance alone in dazzling dresses, each a nod to mythology. Inhale Delirium Exhale presents a series of absurd, fascinating tableaus that are like fragments of a shared dream. Here, disorder becomes a driving force, a confusion, a bond, a delirium (from the Latin delirare, “to go off-track”), and a fertile space. A wave, an unbalancing, a shared hallucination not to be grasped, but to be experienced together.
Concept, scenography and direction Miet Warlop With Lara Chedraoui, Mattis Clement, Elias Demuynck, Milan Schudel, Emiel Vandenberghe, Margarida Ramalhete Scenography Miet Warlop in collaboration with Mattis Clement Music in collaboration with DEEWEE Costumes Miet Warlop in collaboration with Elias Demuynck under the supervision of Tom Van Der Borght Interns Nel Gevaerts / KITOS & Nana Bonsu, Sofia Ristori / Ursulinen Mechelen Lighting design Henri Emmanuel Doublier Sound/music Ditten Lerooij, Hector Devriendt, Niels Orens Assistant director Marius Lefever Technical coordination Pepijn Mesure with Bert Van Maris Outside eyes Danai Anesiadou, Giocomo Bisordi General management / tour Saskia Liénard Distribution Frans Brood Productions
Co-production Festival d’Automne Produced with La Villette (Paris), Kunstenfestivaldesarts & Kaaitheater (Brussels), La Biennale de Lyon (FR) & Holding Textile Hermès, Tanzquartier Wien (Austria), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, NTGent (Ghent), Tandem scène nationale Arras/Douai, Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel (Hamburg), Le Lieu Unique (Nantes), Romaeuropa Festival (Rome), Athens & Epidaurus Festival (Athens), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto), Theaterfestival Boulevard’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc, Netherlands), Sharjah Art Foundation (United Arab Emirates) / Residency at Sharjah Art Foundation, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Temporada Alta – Festival internacional de Catalunya Girona / Salt
With the support of the Flemish Government, the City of Ghent, Perpodium and the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government Special thanks Sylvie Svanberg / Marjolein Demey, Michelle Vosters, Jeroen Olyslaegers, Flup Beys, Micha Volders, Pol Heyvaert, Kenneth De Vos, Geert Viaene / Amotec, Florence Carlisi, LOD muziektheater, Milo Rau
Practical information
Espace Chapiteaux
Metro (subway)
Line 5 - Porte de Pantin (+10 min. walk)
Check the operational status of the elevators by calling 01 40 03 75 75
Metro (subway)
Line 7 - Corentin Cariou (+10 min. walk)
Metro (subway)
Line 7 - Porte de la Villette (+10 min. walk)
Tramway
Line 3b - Porte de la Villette (+15 min. walk)
Bus
Lines 139, 150, 152 - Porte de la Villette
Parking
Q-Park
Philharmonie
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - La Villette
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - Conservatoire
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Cité des Sciences
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Bike racks
Bike racks are available inside the Espace Chapiteaux area. You may leave your electric bike there with the battery attached.
This venue is:
- PMR contact at 01 40 03 75 75
- Accessible to individuals with reduced mobility.
- Accessible to individuals with psychological, cognitive, and intellectual disabilities.
- Partially accessible to deaf individuals, depending on the programming.
- Partially accessible to individuals with hearing aids, depending on the programming.
- Partially accessible to visually impaired and blind individuals.
In the press
« Mille cinq cents mètres de soie bleue, rouge, blanche, orange manipulée par six interprètes lèvent une marée géante d’une beauté plastique éberluante et sans cesse renouvelée. »
Le Monde« Un moment suspendu dans une époque lancée à toute allure. »
Télérama« Miet Warlop accumule avec un talent monstrueux des visions qui se gravent comme des empreintes textiles dans la mémoire. »
Cultnews« One Song, cette nouvelle pièce monumentale déploie une poésie visuelle qui captive et interroge. Sur une composition musicale électro lounge décalée et un peu étrange, Miet Warlop nous embarque dans sa poésie. »
Sceneweb« Une plongée dans les méandres d’une pensée en ébullition, entre poésie visuelle et vacarme intérieur. »
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