INHALE DELIRIUM EXHALE
After the immense success of her previous performance ONE SONG, Belgian artist Miet Warlop, now creates an ode to imagination a wave of wonder and pleasure.
Miet Warlop, acclaimed around the world for her choreographic approach merging dance, visual art, theatre and performance, draws inspiration for her new performance from the movement of waves. As a symbol of change and unpredictability, and a metaphor for imagination and transformation.
In Inhale Delirium Exhale, Warlop – recently appointed to represent Belgium at the 2026 Venice Biennale – seeks to make tangible the inner turbulence of the creative process. Accompanied by a group of performers and more than 4,000 metres of silk fabric.
Images erupt, propelled by DEEWEE‘s music, in a choreography that unfolds like a ritual concert, a performance that is poetic and powerful, at the same time steeped in irony. A deep dive into a visual universe that is as immersive as it is overwhelming – into the delirium that arises between one breath and the next.
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Miet Warlop
Irene Wool vzw- World premiere: 18 May 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels (BE)
- Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts & Kaaitheater Brussel (BE), La Biennale de Lyon (FR), Tanzquartier Wenen (DE), La Villette Parijs (FR), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxemburg (LU), NTGent (BE), Tandem Scène Nationale Arras/Douai (FR), Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel Hamburg (DE), Le Lieu Unique Nantes (FR), Romaeuropa Festival Rome (IT), Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT), Theaterfestival Boulevard ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL), Athens & Epidaurus Festival (GR), Sharjah Art Foundation (AE) / Residency at Sharjah Art Foundation, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin (DE), Temporada Alta – Festival internacional de Catalunya Girona/Salt (ES). With support of the Flemish Government, Stad Gent, Perpodium and Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government
“Eagerly awaited after the success of One Song, this new monumental piece unfolds a visual poetry that both captivates and provokes reflection.”
scèneweb
"Warlop is not a choreographer, nor a theatre director, nor a painter, but all of these things together. Her performances appear to be built on a principle of controlled chaos, as if every gesture, fall, or transformation on stage followed its own physical law."
Il Tempo
“In an endless, fiercely contemporary gesture, she weaves the web of our times - images as striking as they are unsettling - brought to life by a troupe ready to give it their all.”
cult.news