Ballroom
Post uit Hessdalen
'Ballroom': Don't forget to close your open mouth after the performance.
★★★★☆ - Wouter Hillaert, destandaard
"How can we break free from the oppressive system of monotonous jobs?
What begins as a bleak, Kafkaesque nightmare transforms in Ballroom, a performance by the circus company Post uit Hessdalen, into a magical, hopeful dream reminiscent of the surreal worlds of René Magritte." - Jasper Delva, pzazz
"Juggler Stijn Grupping transforms into a magical ball whisperer." - Rosalie Fleuren, Theaterkrant
BaleDay, YawnDay, IDontWantToDay, DwellDay, NotFreeDay, TooTiredDay, WhereIsTheSunDay.
Somewhere Someone got the job of putting the same balls in the same bin over and over again. Someone does it day after day, year after year, and no one really knows why. Hoping that the walls don’t come down on Someone, Someone starts throwing at them. So Someone makes the balls travel longer and longer courses through space, sometimes gracefully and deceptively simple, sometimes powerful and complex. To end – if all goes well – neatly in the bin.
Only everything doesn’t always go right. And how much ‘not well’ can Someone take?
As the balls become a ballast, Someone Somewhere tries to unravel a new dimension in space and time – or is it in the head – to escape the colourless monotony. And when that succeeds, something that could be called pure magic emerges.
For Ballroom, you take a place in a converted truck. Inside, visual artist Lodewijk Heylen made a scenery out of concrete, in which juggler Stijn Grupping creates an incredible dance of bouncing balls thanks to a lot of practice and a bit of magic. Accompanied by the sounds composed by musicians Jochem Baelus and Frederik Meulyzer, he takes you on a wordless trip.
Creation: Ine Van Baelen & Stijn Grupping
Performance: Stijn Grupping
Direction: Ine Van Baelen
Music: Frederik Meulyzer & Jochem Baelus
Scenography: Lodewijk Heylen
Choreography: Kinga Jaczewska
Light design: Lucas Van Haesbroeck
Costumes: Nushi Lambreva
Technician: Bert Laurijssens
Graphic design: Watson Memić
Outside eye: Koen Haagdorens
Coproduction: CIRKL, Circuswerkplaats Dommelhof, MiramirO, Perpodium
Thanks to: MAD festival, hetpaleis
With the support of: the Flemish Government
Distribution: Klaartje Brouns (JE BURO)
& thank you: Karolien Derwael, Good Company, Frans Heylen, Dajo Peeters