Alexander Vantournhout & Bauke Lievens (Belgium)
5-7/5｜Friday to Sunday｜20:00
Old Court Building, 2nd floor (no elevator)
Tickets: MOP 250
Balancing on the fine line between tragedy and comedy, ANECKXANDER is a solo mingling acrobatics with body language in the format of some one-and-only autobiography. The 28-year-old Alexander re-examines his own body in a minimal setting: a dancer, a handful of carefully selected objects and three variations on a piece of piano music by the composer of minimalist style Arvo Pärt. The result is a raw self-portrait in which the body both exposes itself to and tries to escape from the prying eyes of those looking at it.
ANECKXANDER is in fact more than a solo. The performance is the result of an intense dialogue in which Alexander Vantournhout is on stage and Bauke Lievens is in the wings. Alexander and Bauke met in 2011, but the production didn’t come to fruition until 2014 when they finally took the plunge and worked together over each other’s very strongly held opinions of aesthetic. ANECKXANDER immediately earned them the 2014 laureate by Circus Next, a prestigious European platform for talented young circus artists.
Duration: approximately 1 hour, no interval
Restricted to audiences over 18 years of age (contains nudity)
Created By: Alexander Vantournhout and Bauke Lievens
Performer: Alexander Vantournhout
Dramaturgy: Bauke Lievens
Dramaturgic Advice: Dries Douibi and Gerald Kurdian
Outside Eye: Geert Belpaeme, Anneleen Keppens, Lore Missine, Lili M. Rampre and Methinee Wongtrakoon