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BURNING CITY

HetPaleis / Arsenaal / KVS
Tue 11.03.2025 - Wed 12.03.2025
11.03.2025
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12.03.2025

This performance arose from the SOCHA project, a community of performers of all generations, cultures, and disciplines, guided by KVS face Junior Mthombeni and dramaturge Gerardo Salinas. They found an ambitious and dynamic artistic mix that came together in On Fire, a series of performances with the SOCHA group. Burning City will be the culmination of those On Fires, expressing the new city in all its raw, unequal glory.

 

The reptile brain 

Cops stop you

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

A small bomb in your street

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Parents pulling each other’s hair 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Climate crisis at home 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Make America Racist Again 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Far right wins the elections 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Akosua, Kwabena, Li Wei, Olga, Ahmed move to your street 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

AI is in control

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Dark street, someone yells, someone whistles

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

 

Our reptile brain wants only one thing: survival. How can we find our way out of this turmoil? The answer is simple: make chaos. Put 15 artists with ADHD, autism, trauma, epilepsy, high sensitivity on a stage. Let us rise above, conquer all of this shit together for a moment, to emerge and change the world. 

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CO-PRESENTATION

Diego Franssens

Credits

van & met | de & avec | by & with Vianney Adriaens, Marios Bellas, Nina Castryck, Amina Iddrisu, Alix Konadu, Tonic Mendi Jacobs, Junior Mthombeni & Zach Swagga muzikanten | musiciens | musicians Abel Baeck, Arne Demets, David Idrisov, Chris Joris & Tom Kestens regie | mise en scène | direction Junior Mthombeni muzikale leiding | direction musicale | musical direction Tom Kestens regie-assistent / beeld | assistant mise en scène / image | assistant director / image productie | production hetpaleis, KVS and Theater Arsenaal met de steun van | avec le soutien de | with the support de taxsheltermaatregel van de Belgische Federale Overheid via Casa Kafka Pictures