het TheaterFestival

Have a Safe Travel

Eli Mathieu-Bustos

dates

Thu 04.09, 20:00

tickets

Fri 05.09, 20:00

tickets

€20 / €22 / €24
UITPAS: €4
Drama Date: €23

+ Aftertalk (± 1 hour) on September 4

location

Minard

duration

45 min

language

French

Supertitles: Dutch, English

Info

From the jury
“Have a Safe Travel refuses to fall into victimhood, nor is it just a call to outrage. The pain caused by structural racism is made tangible, not simply presented. It’s the body that speaks – and that makes it all the more confronting.”

Eli undergoes his first racial profiling.

Immersed in the memory of this mundane but violent event, we discover what the first procedures of an oppressive system are.

In this first solo, the choreographer was able to transform the systemic violence he experienced into a strong and unique performative material developed with the help of the De Caelo technique. This technique, conceptualized by the artist himself, consists in leaving an important place to emotional intelligence, situated knowledge and improvisation. But it also calls on the tools of astrology, the sky charts and to perceive how the stars can inform us about our bodies.

An aftertalk will take place on 4 September
20:00 Performance
20:45 Break
20:50 Discussion on police violence in one group of persons of colour and one group of white persons
21:25 Break
21:30 Joint discussion in one group
22:00 End

Reviews

"A naked, vulnerable and primal body always in motion. Herein lies the power of this intimate and at the same time space-filling performance."

—Lotte Ogiers

Credits

Choreography, dramaturgy, interpretation, concept: Eli Mathieu-Bustos

Lighting design: Maureen Béguin / Christophe Deprez

Technical coordination: Christophe Deprez

Sound design: Loucka Fiagan

Executive Production: Anaku https://anaku.org/about/

Outside eyes: Daniel Blange, Gubbay, Eric Cyuzuzo Niyibizi, Maria Dogahe, Nabil Ennasouh, Jazz Guyot, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld, Brandon Kano Butare, Luka Katangila, Krystel Khoury, Ana Kuch, Soto Labor, Sophie Sénécaut, Liza Siche-Jouan, Milø Slayers, Marie Umuhoza.

PARTNERS AND SUPPORT:

DeSingel (Antwerp -BE), La Balsamine (Brussels, BE), Kaaitheater (Brussels, BE), WIPCOOP/MESTIZOARTSPLATFORM (BE), BEMYGUEST NETWORK FOR EMERGING PRACTICES including: La Bellone — Brussels (BE), Kaaitheater — Brussels (BE), Kunstencentrum BUDA — Kortrijk (BE), Belluard Bollwerk — Freiburg (CH),Théâtre Saint-Gervais— Geneva (CH), Materiais Diversos — Lisboa (PT), MDT – Stockholm (SE), Artsadmin — London (GB), Parallèle — Marseille (FR), ICI-CCN — Montpellier (FR), Théâtre de la Bastille — Paris (FR), Short Theatre — Roma (IT), Tanzquartier — Wien (AT)