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REFLECTION


Manoeuvre & Palestine Café: Onzichtbaar Werk

Reflection


Basel Zaraa 'Dear Laila'

Memories of a Home: An Intimate Journey Through Loss and Resistance of a Palestinian Family


[cancelled] BREAKFASTCLUB #6

REFLECTIE


WERKER COLLECTIVE: Study Group AGAINST WORK

REFLECTION 'On Artistic Strategies of Unproductivity'


Sana Ghobbeh 'This Wall Grows At Its Root'

Performance


POC POC Manifesto

Reflection: talks and interventions


Tot in de stad! Work in Progress

Reflection: open studios, dinner conversation, performance, whine & wine


Playtime

reflectie


Endless Exhibition

Slowly changing exhibition without end date questions the autonomy of individual artworks


Tarek Atoui 'the Shore / a place I'd like to be'

exhibition


Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat 'Là'

exhibition


Building Castles in the Sky

Art trail: Ghent is transformed through the imagination of its youth


Frederico Araujo & Julie Mughunda 'SHARK'


Abattoir Fermé & Compagnie Cecilia 'GENESIS'

A turbulent and baroque spectacle


Pascal Gielen 'Vertrouwen'

Reflection


DEEWEE, LIPPSTICK DJ's, Lieselot Siddiki & Pol Heyvaert 'Countdown'

Dancing all night with a countdown clock as the master of ceremonies


Lisa Vereertbrugghen 'While We Are Here'

Powerful crossover between techno and folk dance


Katy Baird 'Get off'

A raw and unfiltered glimpse into the human desire for connection


Benny Claessens 'White Flag'

Surrender as a form of resistance


Laurence Roothooft, Suze Milius 'SHE'

The role of a lifetime


Anna Vercammen & Joeri Cnapelinckx 'The Pale Baron'

Felix and Felka’s revolutionary Singalong 😉 Bingbong!


Rosie Sommers & Micha Goldberg 'GERMAN STAATSTHEATER'

Slapstick and self-mockery versus overstressed bodies and burn-outs


CANCELLED: Mette Ingvartsen 'Skatepark'

Contemporary dance on wheels


Brian Lobel with Gweneth-Ann Rand '24 Italian Songs & Arias'

A hilarious opera recital to celebrate failure


Milo Rau 'Medea's Children'

The blood-drenched tragedies of adult life seen through the eyes of children


Double bill: Francesca Grilli 'Record' & Sesa 'Spoken Word'

Performance on adolescence, between courage and isolation & spoken word performance


Abattoir Fermé & Compagnie Cecilia 'GENESIS'

A turbulent and baroque spectacle

GENESIS 13 1
  • Thu 04.04 – 19:00 – Het Arsenaal
  • Fri 05.04 – 19:00 – Het Arsenaal
  • Sat 06.04 – 19:00 – Het Arsenaal
  • Wed 10.04 – 19:00 – Het Arsenaal
  • Thu 11.04 – 19:00 – Het Arsenaal
  • Fri 12.04 – 19:00 – Het Arsenaal
  • Sat 13.04 – 19:00 – Het Arsenaal

Outside, cru­ci­fixes fall like rain, the ground is radio­ac­ti­ve, the seven seas burn, and legi­ons of mole men make the con­ti­nent unsa­fe at night. Inside, a select few find them­sel­ves in The Bunker, whe­re His Royal Highness Beire Pap” rules with a scep­ter made of ham on the bone. For ten long years, this cross-sec­ti­on of the popu­la­ti­on has had the time to ima­gi­ne a uto­pia that eve­ry­o­ne in the world can rela­te to. When the doors swing open, the earth will once again belong to huma­ni­ty to do things dif­fe­rent­ly this time, from the beginning.

Abattoir Fermé and Compagnie Cecilia join for­ces for Genesis,” a tur­bu­lent and baro­que spec­ta­cle on loca­ti­on. It’s about cre­a­ti­vi­ty, good inten­ti­ons, bad peo­p­le, (con­cre­te) decay, and the con­struc­ti­on of an apart­ment buil­ding. It explo­res the walls, the floors, the archi­tect, the con­trac­tor, and the foun­da­ti­ons. It del­ves into the trunk moving into the flats, a toad beco­ming king, fly meat, tasty jui­ce, and the need for a jac­ket when eve­ning falls becau­se it gets cold so quick­ly. Brrrr.

With no fewer than 15 actors on sta­ge, Genesis” will be a uni­que fusi­on of the acting talents from Compagnie Cecilia and Abattoir Fermé. 

Dutch/​180 min.
14+
Het Arsenaal