My body as a Commodity
Residencies
- 19.08 > 06.09.2024
- 15.04 > 27.04.2024
- 11.03 > 23.03.2024
- 12.06 > 30.06.2023
- 02.05 > 05.05.2023
- 18.04 > 21.04.2023
your trauma has a beat
My Body as a Commodity is a sultry musical trip that explores the boundaries of fiction. Under high-energy live percussion, theatre-maker Anne-Laure Vandeputte explores in what narratives our bodies are inscribed — consciously or not.
She meets a director who wants to talk about strong women.
She meets a man who wonders if he appears in the show.
She meets a sex worker in Berlin and bombs her as her own personal jesus.
Together with musician Andrew van Ostade, Vandeputte performs a monologue-on-beats that questions and challenges the narrative about physical trauma.
trigger warning: there may be sexual violence
trigger warning: where there’s pain there’s a party
concept & text Anne-Laure Vandeputte I performance Anne-Laure Vandeputte & Andrew Van Ostade I music Andrew Van Ostade & Anne-Laure Vandeputte I textual dramaturgy Purni Morell I final direction Lisa Verbelen I light design Caroline Mathieu I scenography Gilles Pollak I costume design Sam de Mol I sound design Korneel Moreaux I technique Gilles Pollak I picture Lucinde Wahlen I graphic design Evi Peeters I production KWP Kunstenwerkplaats I coproduction KAAP, C‑mine and Monty I supported by Kaaitheater, School van Gaasbeek, Flemish Government and VGC I thanks to Chiqui Love, Evi Cats, Louise Van den Eede, Maya Dhondt and Gouvernement