C-TAKT+ program: spring 2025
13.02.2025
Calender
KORROL – Grensgeval i.s.m. Aifoon
January 19, 2025 – 3:00 PM – de Bogaard, Sint-Truiden
January 20 & 21, 2025 – 10:30 AM, 1:45 PM & 10:30 AM – school performance – de Bogaard, Sint-Truiden
There never was a box (MATTER II) – Femke Van der Steen & Tristan Feyten
January 28, 2025 – 7:30 PM – Double Bill – CCHA, Hasselt
Nuggets – Maxim Storms
January 28, 2025 – 7:30 PM – Double Bill – CCHA, Hasselt
Analogue Humans – KID.
February 1, 2025 – 8:30 PM – CC Palethe, Pelt
You are an object to me – Charlotte Bouckeart
February 12, 2025 – 8:15 PM – CC MUZE, Heusden-Zolder
The Round – Claire Croizé/ECCE
March 1, 2025 – 4:00 PM – CCHA, Hasselt
March 2, 2025 – 2:00 PM – CCHA, Hasselt
Proxemics – Salomé Mooij
March 13, 2025 – 8:30 PM – CC Palethe, Pelt
EARTH I – Karl Van Welden & Frederik Croene
March 28, 2025 – 8:00 PM – CCHA, Hasselt
PHONE – dOFt
April 6, 2025 – 2:00 PM – CC Palethe, Pelt
Dehors est blanc – Tumbleweed
May 13 & 14, 2025 – 8 PM – CCHA, Hasselt
Program
KORROL – Grensgeval i.s.m. Aifoon
January 19, 2025 – 3:00 PM – de Bogaard, Sint-Truiden
January 20 & 21, 2025 – 10:30, 1:45 PM & 10:30 AM – school performance – de Bogaard, Sint-Truiden
Info & tickets via debogaard.be
After the successful family shows Plock! and murmur, KORROL is the final part of a triptych about art and creation.
In KORROL, an acrobatic architect composes space with kilos of concrete. Jakob builds towers, the towers change into a city, a deserted plain, a person. But every time he tries to lay the last stone, his work turns out to be unfinished. Jakob balances precariously on rickety towers, jumps on his hands from stone to stone. But no matter what he tries: everything remains so stiff and still. Until he puts on the concrete: turning on leaden shoes he orchestrates a small ballet, in a duet with a massive ball he skims past his audience. He (re)builds his entire body. Even when he almost collapses under the weight, Jakob just finds the freedom for a duet between toe and little finger. In a world of travelling and tangible sound, he rebuilds the world together with the audience.
Result: a vibrant new circus sound theatre where the audience is right in the middle. With drumming blocks, a petrified acrobat and dancing concrete.
Credits
Concept and direction: Hanne Vandersteene and Mahlu Mertens // Design: Architect Lode De Smet Van Damme // Game: Jakob Lohmann // Sound concept: Stijn Dickel (Aifoon vzw) // Lighting design: Geert Vanoorlé // Dramaturgy: Mieke Versyp // Costume design: Jana Roos // Technology: Bram Waelkens // Production and tour management: Simon Monbaliu // With support from: Aifoon vzw, C-Takt, Circuswerkplaats Dommelhof, Cirklabo, CirquEvolution (Fr), De Grote Post, The Flemish Government, Festival Spring (Fr), Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf (Fr), Miramiro, PERPLX, Perpodium, Rotondes Luxembourg, Sabam for Culture, City of Ghent, De Tax Shelter
There never was a box (MATTER II) – Femke Van der Steen & Tristan Feyten
January 28, 2025 – 7:30 PM – Double Bill – CCHA, Hasselt
Info & tickets via ccha.be
There Never Was a Box is an eco-feminist, non-dualistic performance about the costs and meanings of living up to the high standards of masculinity and patriarchy. It is a king who is growing old and is told by the gods that he will soon die. It is a deal made by the gods, who promise him that if he sacrifices one of his sons every few years, he will be allowed to live. It is a choice that is quickly made and a dismayed prince desperately pleads for the value of his existence. It is a jester who whistles, asks questions and speaks about the future. It is a play in which the players and the audience do not always see what is fiction and what is real. It is an empire on the verge of collapse and a court desperately trying to hold it together, but what if some things are better off breaking, dying, cracking; what if it is time, long ago?
Credits
Direction & concept Femke Van der Steen // Research & text Femke Van der Steen & Tristan Feyten // Acting Tristan Feyten, Staf Bertheloot, Ramon Mahieu & Emil Leysen // Music Jolan Decaestecker (Empty Apartments) // Scenography & lighting design Femke Van der Steen, Lars Uten & Tristan Feyten // Dramaturgy & coaching Sarah Eisa, Nico Boon & Runa Robbroeckx // Costumes Zazie Bakos & Marie Baudoncq // Production Eigen Kweek // © Faber Mathieu
Nuggets – Maxim Storms
January 28, 2025 – 7:30 PM – Double Bill – CCHA, Hasselt
Info & tickets via ccha.be
Maxim Storms: how can we best describe him? As an iconoclast who plays and performs on different stages for different audiences perhaps? Together with Katrien Valckenaers he runs the theatre collective Ballet Dommage. In addition, there is his (solo) work with his absurd humour, mustached poker face, flawless sense of timing, in which the absurd takes precedence. De Standaard once called him ‘the Charlie Chaplin of his generation’ and in 2023 Storms received the award for Best Male Acting Performance -35 years for NUGGETS, awarded by the Actors Guild. Reasons enough to see this multi-talent at work!
In Storms’ new solo NUGGETS, Storms (de)constructs the individual who holds his own in today’s ‘we-want-more’ society on speed. He creates a cramped universe where a last soul stubbornly continues to model existence. Through dilapidated construction and fatal repair, the character attempts to achieve the indeterminate goal.
Credits
Concept & performance Maxim Storms // Coaching Jan Steen & Lisbeth Gruwez // Lighting Geert Vanoorlé // Feedback Linde Carrijn & Rachid Laachir // Co-production CAMPO Ghent, C-TAKT & De Grote Post Oostende // In collaboration with c o r s o & arts centre nona Mechelen // © Ilias Teirlinck
Analogue Humans – KID.
February 1, 2025 – 8:30 PM – Premiere – CC Palethe, Pelt
Info & tickets via palethe.be
Working with artists from different disciplines, Terry Beks and Kim Vreys bring together fiction, documentary and music during their art-house film debut ‘Analogue Humans’. The main character (Dirk Hendrickx) is drawn to an exhibition where the makers present a snapshot of the transition from an analogue to a digital era. ‘Analogue Humans’ is an audiovisual, artistic image of the experience of the ever-increasing digitalisation and what it does to people on a micro level. Filming takes place from Belgium, the Netherlands, Tucson (USA) and Tokyo (Japan). An artistic collaboration with Rob Walbers, MELVIN, Gideon Kiefer, Geert Peeten, Wout Schoonis, Frits Standaert, Thijs Boonen, Kris Ercken, Jaak De Digitale, Sedrik Oliha and Cas Van Nieuwenhuyse. The music for the film was written by Terry Beks in collaboration with Stef Kamil Carlens, Rudy Trouvé, Kris Dane, Naima Joris, Chantal Acda, Joy Adegoke, Nathan Daems, Buni Lenski, Yves Theeuwen, Donai Singleton and Stijn Segers (TOUR). In the run-up to the film premiere, you should also discover the expo. This will be possible from mid-November. Don’t forget your smartphone.
You are an object to me – Charlotte Bouckeart
February 12, 2025 – 8:15 PM – CC MUZE, Heusden-Zolder
Info & tickets via muze.be
Charlotte Bouckaert is an outsider in the performing arts and in the visual arts. Where these art disciplines intersect, she feels at her best. In ‘You are an object to me’, Charlotte Bouckaert approaches the still lifes that casually arise in our living rooms with wonder.
The stage is a large white horizontal canvas with everyday objects and performer Marie De Corte on it. A relationship develops between the silent, still objects and the mobile and expressive body. What if objects start moving, hesitate, stagger, walk away? What if there is a meeting between Cézanne’s apples and a few Morandi vases?
“Throughout the piece, Bouckaert creates a range of sensory experiences with perspective, colour and form. From the actions filmed from the workstation and projected on a larger scale onto the stage, to the sound clouds pre-recorded or amplified by movements on stage, every effort is made to subtly blur our perception of this unique universe.” – Pzazz
The Round – Claire Croizé/ECCE
March 1, 2025 – 4:00 PM – CCHA, Hasselt
March 2, 2025 – 2:00 PM – CCHA, Hasselt
Info & tickets via ccha.be
ECCE (Etienne and Claire, Claire and Etienne) is the dance company of – yes – Claire Croizé and Etienne Guilloteau, based in Brussels. Within the company, they work as two separate choreographers with their own movement language and style. An explosion of vitality and energy through bodies in motion, closely connected to each other and to the environment in which they live every day. That is The round! In 2014, Claire Croizé created the performance Primitive for an adult audience. In Cultuurpodium we read at the time: “The dance shows their beauty and emphasizes physical and cultural differences. The audience enjoys their proximity and the visible pleasure with which they dance.” Ten years later, Claire Croizé adapts and processes this production, this time with and by young people between the ages of 8 and 13. Once again, the audience takes a seat on a round tribune close to the dancers for a breathtaking experience!
Credits
Concept & choreography Claire Croizé // Dramaturgy Etienne Guilloteau // Assistant Youness Khoukhou // Dance Anaïs Castiaux, Augusta Bodson, Célestine Espinosa, Denissia Abigail Mayné, Gabriela Fernadez, Juliette Verhovert, Kamiel Verheyden, Marjane Quaghebeur Van Kerckhove, Valentine Wellens-Henrotte & Vera Fonteyne // Scenography Jozef Wouters & Robrecht Ghesquière // Costumes Anne-Catherine Kunz // Lighting Marc Dewitt // Coproduction HET LAB Hasselt & Ultima Vez // With thanks to Rosas Dancingkids, Danspunt & Decoratelier // © Claire Croizé
Proxemics – Salomé Mooij
March 13, 2025 – 8:30 PM – CC Palethe, Pelt
When does someone get too close? What is the right distance to the other in a given situation? And how do we know? In the performance ‘Proxemics’ Salomé Mooij explores proximity. Sometimes this is a clumsy exercise, a most clumsy act, sometimes it is unintelligible and sometimes too loud, it remains too far or she comes too close. One thing is clear: in any case, it cannot be done without the other. As subtle as her voice and her facial expressions are, Mooij is just as refined when she seeks out the boundaries of what is permissible or undesirable between performer and audience. In this she is like a balancing artist who knows how to make contact with the people around her in the here and now.
Credits
Creation and play: Salomé Mooij // Made in collaboration with Rita Hoofwijk and Barbara T’Jonck
EARTH I – Karl Van Welden & Frederik Croene
March 28, 2025 – 8:00 PM – CCHA, Hasselt
Info & tickets ccha.be
Karl Van Welden creates visual work based on the human presence in the universe. His performances balance between autonomous poetry and subtle references to social or political themes. This time, climate change is the starting point. A landscape in sound and image, threatening and protective. EARTH I is a musical, visual performance in co-creation with pianist Frederik Croene. A felt cloth, as long and as wide as the stage, descends over Croene, who continues to play his melody undisturbed. The cloth slowly forms a sculpture that imperceptibly takes on different forms. Sometimes it looks like an emerging or disappearing mountain landscape, sometimes it transforms into an abstract sculpture that slowly but surely threatens to suffocate Croene.
Credits
Concept & direction Karl Van Welden // Concept, composition & piano Frederik Croene // Lighting design Ryoya Fudetani // Assistance & machinery Maarten De Vrieze // Technology Vincent Malstaf // Co-production Concertgebouw Brugge, KANAL – Centre Pompidou Brussels, C-TAKT, Perpodium, Platform 0090, C-Mine & B-Classic // With the support of PACT Zollverein, the Warande Turnhout & the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government // © Karl Van Welden
FOON – dOFt
April 6, 2025 – 2:00 PM – CC Palethe, Pelt
Info & tickets via palethe.be
Can I connect you?’ More than 50 years ago, crackling conversations were established via a complicated system of cables. In ‘Foon’ we follow three telephone operators at the switchboard. The telephone operators live in a factory-like world in which they repeat the same actions over and over again. The more they connect others, the more they lose themselves… The (human) machines overheat and everything comes to a standstill. They, who always connect people, are forced to connect with each other for the first time. ‘Foon’ is a dynamic, surprising and playful dance theatre performance in which text, movement, music, acrobatics and installation work merge. Choreographer Piet Van Dycke & theatre maker Jonas Vermeulen, together with three physical actors, create a poetic and visual experience for everyone aged 6 and up about the (r)evolution from I-they to we.
Credits
Dance, acting: Jotka Bauwens, Michèle Even, Sarah Vingerhoets // Choreography: Piet Van Dycke // Text, direction: Jonas Vermeulen
Dehors est blanc – Tumbleweed
May 13 & 14, 2025 – 8:00 PM – CCHA, Hasselt
Info & tickets via ccha.be
Tumbleweed is a young Brussels company, founded by the Swiss choreographer and dancer Angela Rabaglio and the French choreographer, dancer and musician Micaël Florentz. Their work focuses on the loss of reference points. Dehors est blanc is a performance at the crossroads of aerial acrobatics and choreography. Hanging above an inverted lamp, three dancers acrobats gradually move upwards, into the void. Floating together towards an elsewhere, which increasingly merges and fades, they bear witness to the transience of things. They literally float in space, until they seem to lose their bearings. Dehors est blanc refers to the meteorological phenomenon of ‘whiteout’ (the counterpart of the blackout), which occurs in extreme weather conditions such as very dense fog or in a snowstorm, in which contrasts disappear, all reference points fall away and you lose all sense of orientation. A dizzying, almost mystical experience. That is what this magical ‘mid-air’ installation performance aims to achieve.
