Delirium

After the immense success of her previous performance ONE SONG, Miet Warlop now creates an ode to imagination with Delirium, a wave of wonder and pleasure.

“Long waves beat diagonally against the beach, bulge hunchbacked with cords of muscle, raise quivering ridges that tip over at their very greenest. Crests stretched tight, already welted white, wrap around a cavity of air crushed by the clear mass like a secret made and then broken.”
– Uwe Jonhson, Anniversaries: From a Year in  the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, trans. Damion Searls (New York: New York Review Books, 2018), 3.

Describing Miet’s work reveals secrets that words can hardly capture. Wonder and pleasure drag you into a wave. It seems as if that round air cavity takes on the contours of Warlop’s skull where within the imagination infects a whole group around her, the imagination becomes collective and thus touches our imagination. But how do you interpret the capriciousness of that imagination on a stage? What is the deeper meaning of a wave rising and then crashing?

Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts & Kaaitheater Brussel (BE), La Biennale de la Danse 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)

With support of the Flemish Government, Stad Gent, Perpodium and Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government