Feral Reverie

KWP production

Residencies

  • 10.11 > 22.11.2025
  • 04.08 > 14.08.2025
  • 02.08.2025
  • 02.09 > 06.09.2024

Feral Reverie is an expe­ri­men­tal cho­re­o­grap­hy of col­lap­se and eva­si­on, a sys­tem lovin­gly desig­ned to fail.

It dreams of free­dom through the cracks of the cur­rent order, tra­cing wild­ness not as dis­or­der but as a way of life, a stra­te­gy, a refu­sal. Choreography beco­mes a kind of soft sabo­ta­ge, a code gone dir­ty, a glitch with agen­cy, a mode of being that doe­sn’t need to make sen­se to make life.

Three dan­cers move alongsi­de pige­ons, who are nei­ther metap­hor nor prop, but co-con­spi­ra­tors in refu­sal. Together, they inha­bit a digi­tal ghost-world, a spa­ce flic­ke­ring bet­ween screen and fle­sh, whe­re fugi­ti­vi­ty, uncer­tain­ty, and ung­over­na­ble move­ment beco­me the sha­red ter­rain. Nothing resol­ves. Meaning flic­kers, or doesn’t. Coherence stays out of reach, on purpose.

The pige­ons inter­rupt. They are the ste­reo­ty­pe that refu­ses to beco­me sym­bols. What hap­pens when per­for­man­ce stops per­for­ming? When bodies won’t sync, won’t land, won’t pose? This is the pla­ce whe­re digi­tal meets dirt. Where con­trol rea­ches its soft, flic­ke­ring edge. Where fai­lu­re is not a detour but a method. Instability is the point. Feral Reverie asks: What trem­bles bene­ath the algo­rithm, bene­ath the demand to mean some­thing? What would hap­pen if wild­ness left us behind?

Concept & Choreografie Parvin Saljoughi I Performers Camilla Strandhagen, Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez & Parvin Saljoughi I Geluidsontwerp Sara Bigdeli Shamloo (SarrSew) I Video Ghazal Majidi I Dramaturgie / tech­ni­sche direc­tie Nathaniel Moore I Kostuumontwerp J.Boy I Lichtontwerp Meri Ekola I Duiventrainer Wannes Lecompte I Productie Kunstenwerkplaats KWPCoproductie Beursschouwburg I Met de steun van DeSingel, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kunstencentrum KAAP, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Centrale Fies, Eindorf Kunstraum, Impure Company, Vlaamse Gemeenschap (VG) en Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC) I Met dank aan Elisa Liepsch, Claïs Lemmens Boon, Katja Armknecht, Maria Dogahe, Hooman Sharifi, Nana Bilus Abaffy, Dino Sommadossi, Alexandra Hennig, ADMA & Abel Hartooni