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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

Benny Claessens 'White Flag'

Surrender as a form of resistance

THEATER NEUMARKT White Flag Foto Philip Frowein Web 01
  • Tue 16.04 – 20:00 – Minnemeers
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  • Wed 17.04 – 20:00 – Minnemeers
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  • Thu 18.04 – 20:00 – Minnemeers
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‘All will be well, a new begin­ning has come!’, god­des­ses in ancient myths always seem to sing when the end of a cri­sis is in sight, drying the tears of man­kind. Director Benny Claessens, together with three con­tem­po­ra­ry god­des­ses and a queer cho­rus, hoists the whi­te flag and leads us to a pla­ce of sen­su­al and vul­ne­ra­ble plea­su­re. A pla­ce whe­re we can sur­ren­der and do not always have to be strong. Where we dare to rebel against the exis­ting order and try to look at tra­di­ti­o­nal, mas­cu­li­ne valu­es such as strength, geni­us and heroism in a new way.

In the twi­light of dawn, Benny’s god­des­ses (Challenge Gumbodete, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe and Teresa Vittucci) sing of sur­ren­der as the last form of resis­tan­ce. White Flag is a hybrid per­for­man­ce with live film, music, the­a­tre… and lots of pink plush. The result: an enter­tai­ning and visu­al­ly stun­ning per­for­man­ce. To hell with geni­u­ses and heroes. A new begin­ning lies ahead.

ca. 2 hours and 15 minutes

CREDITS WHITE FLAG

DIRECTION Benny Claessens

MUSIC AND COMPOSITION Nid & Sancy

SCENOGRAPHY, LIGHT AND VIDEO DESIGN Stefan Britze

COSTUME DESIGN Teresa Vergho

DRAMATURGY Tine Milz

VOICE-OVER Brandy Butler, Julien Gosselin

LIVE CAMERA Urs Berliner, Florian Hinder

ASSISTENT DIRECTOR Sophia Senn

CAST Challenge Gumbodete, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Teresa Vittucci

CHOIR tba

PRODUCTION Theater Neumarkt

COPRODUCTION Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

PREMIERE Theater Neumarkt, Zürich, 31 augus­tus 2022