Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe & Wouter Deltour - Chapters of Celebration

A ritual of dance and music in response to an uncertain world.

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In a world marked by conflict and uncertainty, Chapters of Celebration poses a pressing question: what is there left to celebrate? When joy seems inappropriate, people have, for centuries, nevertheless turned to ritual and dance - not as escape, but as resistance.

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Following its creation at DE SINGEL last season, this acclaimed production returns for more celebrations.

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Director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe and composer Wouter Deltour rediscover one another in their shared love of music and ritual. From Folies d’Espagne - a musical theme that resounds down the centuries in the work of Bach, Vivaldi, and others - a swirling whole emerges. Michele Rizzo, Cherish Menzo, Lasseindra Ninja, Iker Karrera, Jeremy Nedd, and Toni Jodar provide the choreography.

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Seven singing dancers move through ‘chapters’ in which baroque, ballroom, jazz, and rave converge. As archaeologists of celebration, they dig for a collective energy that we are in danger of losing. An invitation to keep on dancing

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