STAMPBOX
Design and realization of interactive interview box aka ‘the Stampbox’ commissioned by the press agency for and by young people StampMedia.
MAKING OF
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TRISTESSES
2016. Far right parties are on the rise throughout Europe. In the countries of Northern Europe, National Awakening- an antidemocratic, populist movement led by Martha Heiger. In Martha’s birthplace, a suicide has taken place. Leader’s visit to the peninsula for her funeral is announced. Ellen, a young teenager, sets out to assassinate the woman threatening her and her country’s future. But on the day of the funeral, the situation drastically changes…
“En découdre avec ce qui nous désespère quotidiennement, dans ce monde-ci.”
TRISTESSES is a theatrical performance whose main theme is the relation between power and sadness. Borrowing the conventions of detective fiction and political comedy, Anne-Cécile Vandalem explores with humor one of the most formidable political weapons of the day: making the masses sad. Through cinematographic stage design, she shines a spotlight on the power of the media and the ways censorship functions in the open or, insidiously, in the shadow.
Première on 10 April 2016 Théatre de Liège, Liège
On tour from May 2016
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Tristesses was awarded the Prix de la Critique 2015/16 in the category Meilleur Spectacle.
MAKING OF
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Das Fräulein Kompanie
Théatre de Liège
Festival D’Avignon
Les Prix de la Critique 2016
Concept, Text & Direction
Anne-Cécile Vandalem
Actors
Anne-Pascale Clairembourg
Epona Guillaume
Séléné Guillaume
Vincent Lecuyer
Bernard Marbaix
Catherine Mestoussis
Jean-Benoit Ugeux
Anne-Cécile Vandalem
Vincent Cahay
Pierre Kissling
Stunt Double
Nora Dolmans
Music
Pierre Kissling
Vincent Cahay
Soprano
Françoise Vanhecke
Scenography
ruimtevaarders
Set Dressing & Props
Fabienne Müller
ruimtevaarders
Light Design
Enrico Bagnoli
Sound
Jean-Pierre Urbano
Video
Arié Van Egmond
Video Operator
Federico D’Ambrosio
Costumes
Laurence Hermant
Costume Assistant
Elisa Vidal Riezu
Make Up
Sophie Carlier
Hairdresser
Gaetan d’Agostino
Stage & Technical Management
Damien Arrii
Stage Assistant
Pierre Draye
Collaborative Dramaturgy
Sebastien Monfé
Assistant
Sarah Seignobosc
Second Assistant
François Maquet
Creation
Das Fräulein Kompanie
Théâtre de Liège
Production
Das Fräulein Kompanie
Coproduction
Théâtre de Liège (Be)
Théâtre National de la Communauté française (Be)
Le Volcan- Scène Nationale du Havre (Fr)
Théâtre de Namur (Be)
Bonlieu- Scène Nationale d’Annecy
Le Manège.mons
Maison de la Culture d’Amiens
photos Phile Deprez:
LILIOM
At the age of 27, Liliom decides to change course and to start living together with Julie, a young woman. With this he says goodbye to his fleeting, yet familiar artist life and ends up in a raw reality. The loved ones live in poverty and depend on gifts from distant relatives and friends. Liliom sees his life changing into a difficult struggle and soon he starts to demonize the world around him.
Magistrate to Liliom: “Why are you ashamed that you were loved?”
We dive into the grim imagination of a stubborn and violent man who apparently does not have the talent to live a good and happy life. A story about the ups and downs of an individual in a closed community where everyone is constantly on each other’s lips and privacy is unthinkable, where nothing is left untouched and moral condemnation is always lurking. A world in which there is no quiet empty space.
Première op 2 april 2016 Frascati, Amsterdam
speelreeks tot en met 16/04/2016
MAKING OF
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Frascati
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Actors
Helène Devos
Fred Goessens
Janni Goslinga
Robert de Hoog
Chris Nietvelt
Anne-Chris Schulting
Eelco Smits
Claire Bender
Eli Rietveld
Victor IJdens
Director
Julie Van den Berghe
Author
Ferenc Molnár
Translation
Jibbe Willems
Dramaturge
Julie Peters
Assistant Director
Janneke de Haan
Sound Design
Wessel Schrik
Light Design
Hendrik Walther
Costumes
Lieve Pynoo
Scenography
ruimtevaarders
Technique & Production
Wolf-Götz Schwörer
First Stage Manager
Sander van Elteren
Stage Manager
Attila Nemeth
Daan Westendorp
Ruud de Vos
Hair & Grime
David Verswijveren
Costume Department
Wim van Vliet
Farida Bouhbouh
Executive Producer
Lotte Heeman
Productie
Frascati producties
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Liliom
by ruimtevaarders
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LE GRAND CIRQUE
At the request of the KVS, the French-Algerian writer Mohamed Kacimi examined this painful episode in recent Belgian history. Kacimi plowed through the entire archive. No person who can believe it. We follow the debates of gendarmes and police, of instruction and justice in the search for one Marc D. Le grand Cirque shows how incompetence, self-delusion, underhanded competition and good intentions merge into a deadly cocktail.
A person would be devastated by less. A country too.
Première op 19 maart in de KVS, Brussel
speelreeks tot en met 26/03/2016
MAKING OF
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KVS
Play
Jobst Schnibbe
Mieke Verdin
Lotte Heijtenis
Johan Knuts
Wouter Bruneel
Bram De Win
Director
Simon De Vos
Text
Mohamed Kacimi
Translation
Mieke Verdin
Music
Jens Bouttery
Costumes
Isa Janssens
Lies Van Assche
Chris Snik
Light Design
Harry Cole
Scenography
ruimtevaarders
production Management
Nele Druyts
Production
KVS
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GAZ
Pleidooi van een gedoemde moeder
After a horrible attack in the heart of Europe, the mother of the killed terrorist takes the floor. Hundreds of civilians, especially children, died horribly. Without condoning her son or sparing herself, she measures the time in which she lives. In this way she transforms herself, with painful and sometimes resentful pleasure, into a mirror of an entire society.
‘Had my son committed his actions in wartime and in the uniform of our army? He had received a monument.’
Viviane De Muynck gives shape to the mother of a killed terrorist. In addition to a psychological portrait that tries to fathom the motives of the victim, GAZ is. A doomed mother’s plea mainly an argument for humanity and a plea for nuance: a person or his actions cannot be traced to a few motives.
Première op 17/04/2015 in theater Malpertuis, Tielt
Op tournee vanaf september 2015
MAKING OF
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Theater Malpertuis
Play
Viviane De Muynck
Director
Piet Arfeuille
Tekst
Tom Lanoye
assistent Director
Matthias Velle
Costumes
Lieve Pynoo
Light Design
Jan Maertens
Sound
Peter Connelly
Scenography
ruimtevaarders
Decor Construction
ruimtevaarders
Maarten Wagemans
Wim Loobuyck
Rik Teunis
Production Management
Rik Teunis
Wim Loobuyck
Production
Theater Malpertuis en Gone West
Foto’s Fred Debrock:
STILL TOO SAD TO TELL YOU
STILL TOO SAD TO TELL YOU is directly inspired by I AM TOO SAD TO TELL YOU, a video self-portrait by artist Bas Jan Ader. Anne-Cécile Vandalem pays homage to this almost five decades old motif and transforms this in a immersive installation made up of several portraits—women, men and children, some actors, some not, famous or unknown. Ten screens invite you to an intimate experience where tears, as they are put on display, also beg to be collected. Faces may become stages and landscapes depending on whether your vision blurs, a tear forms, you break into tears or sob, you cry a river or a torrent, you wipe or share your tears, in silence, in gasps, in deep sighs, loud, short or long cries interspersed with words, whole or truncated, whether you suffocate or drown…
so many faces offered and tears shed.
STILL TOO SAD TO TELL YOU is the counterpoint to TRISTESSES, Das Fräulein Kompanie’s subsequent production. This small-scale installation locates the topic on a strictly individual level and unveils the aesthetic power of solitary lachrymal manifestations.
Installation displayed on XS festival 26, 27 & 28 March 2015 at Théâtre National, Brussels.
MAKING OF
Théâtre National
Das Fräulein Kompanie
Concept & Realisatie
Anne-Cécile Vandalem
Muziek
Pierre Kissling
Scenografie
ruimtevaarders
Camera
Federico D’Ambrosio
Video
Benoit Gillet
Spel
Selma Alaoui
Brigitte Dedry
Véronique Dumont
Epona Guillaume
Séléné Guillaume
Zoé Kovacs
Lili Kovacs
Ghila Kovacs
Charly Kovacs
Aurélie Lannoy
Vincent Lecuyer
Mathilde Lefèvre
Gaëtan Lejeune
Oscar Thuot
Jean-Benoit Ugeux
Nathalie Yalon
Mélanie Zucconi
Productie
Das Fräulein Kompanie
SNEEUW
Speckled white.
Sleepy.
A first snowflake on your cheek.
Everything is white.
Everything becomes white.
Everything is different.
Everything will be different.
What was black turns white.
What was loud becomes silent.
What was dry becomes wet.
What was not appears.
Snow is a visual and musical children’s show in and about the snow. Snow takes you to the silence of the white, to the white of the cold, to the cold of a hand, to the hand of a girl. A girl who can conjure snowflakes, whirls through a white world and sings the silence with her crystal clear voice.
Première on 12/02/2015 at Kopergietery, Ghent
On tour from 2015
MAKING OF
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LOD muziektheater
Silbersee
Concept & Regie
Inne Goris
Muziek
Thomas Smetryns
Dans & Zang
Natasha Young
Muziek (guitaar)
Toon Callier
Muzikale Leiding
Romain Bischoff
Klankopname & Editing
Benjamin Dousselaere
Scenografie
ruimtevaarders
Lichtontwerp
Mark Van Denesse
Kostuumontwerp
Lieve Meeussen
Techniek
Pino Etz
LOD
Productie
LOD muziektheater
Silbersee
Foto’s Koen Broos:
SLUMBERLAND
The Moongirl who lands on earth, the Sandman who leaves his sand cave, the Sleep professional who makes sleep into a science, the Bat-boy who prefers to sleep upside-down. Each one is a magical, moving and comical figure balancing on the rope stretched loosely between what is real and what isn’t, and each lives on enduringly in your memory.
“When An Pierlé sings, you float between dream and reality” (Knack Focus *****)
Slumberland is a breathtaking film-like musical journey into the world of the night. The point at which everything is overturned and the dream outstrips reality. It is the children themselves who with their astonishing imagination take you to a fascinating world. They tell us about how they sleep, what happens in their dreams and why day turns to night. The songs, performed live by An Pierlé and Fulco Ottervanger, and the film images by Nathalie Teirlinck portray in sounds and pictures a series of wondrous figures who meet each other in a nocturnal world.
Première on 31/01/2015 at Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Ghent
On tour from 2015
Slumberland won the Music Theatre Now and was selected for the Theaterfestival 2015.
MAKING OF
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Zonzo Compagnie
Het Theaterfestival 2015
Regie & Video
Nathalie Teirlinck
Muziek
An Pierlé
Fulco Ottervanger
Scenografie
ruimtevaarders
Techniek
Steven Bontinck
Pieter Nys
Kostuumontwerp
Vanessa Evrard
Productie
Zonzo Compagnie
