Dark Habits
Dark Habits questions our longing for community in times of spiritual crisis and hyper-individualism. Bringing together hypocritical saints, deceitful fortune tellers, and honest charlatans, it balances between the theatricality of intense mystical rituals and the clumsiness of cheap YouTube vanishing acts.
For centuries, religion played a meaning-making role. For many, it was not a matter of belief, but a given, as natural as taking a shit. Today, believing is often an individual choice. The market can fill in this gap. How do we engage with religious traditions when they so often rely on forms of discipline and control? And what if that is precisely their appeal?
Simon Van Schuylenbergh runs the cabaret anal pompidou. In Dark Habits, he uses exaggeration and perversion to translate the intimacy and chaotic energy born on a small scale into a do-it-yourself-pilgrimage for the main stage.
regie Simon Van Schuylenbergh I performance Castélie Yalombo, Hanako Hayakawa, Rosie Sommers, Micha Goldberg, Charlotte Nagel, Simon Van Schuylenbergh I muziek Luce Fiagan I kostuumontwerp en rekwisieten Hanako Hayakawa, Micha Goldberg I scenografie Veronika Bezdenynkh I lichtontwerp Max Adams I decorontwerp en techniek Remco Wuyts I dramaturgie Nathan Ooms, Anna Franziska Jäger I flyer Maya Strobbe I artistiek onderzoek Micha Goldberg, Chiara Monteverde, Marivi Gazeta, Lydia McGlinchey, Loucka Elie Fiagan, Luis Ramirez Munoz, Sophia Rodriguez, Helena Araujo, Nathaniel Moore, Marco Labellarte, Castélie Yalombo, Rosie Sommers, Désirée Cerocien, Hanako Hayakawa, Rojda Güluzar Karakus, Karina Villafan, Rodrigo Batista, Charlotte Nagel I productie KWP Kunstenwerkplaats I coproductie Toneelhuis, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Beursschouwburg I partners Theater Aan Zee, workspacebrussels, VIERNULVIER, De Brakke Grond, KMSKA, murf/murw I partners onderzoek Kunstenwerkplaats, Atelier210, CAMPO, Brakke Grond, Kunstencentrum Buda, Gouvernement, decoratelier, the queer self-defense group Athens I veel dank aan Bart Van Schuylenbergh, Castillo, Siska Baeck & Steven Sommeryns
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