(Central photograph): Helmut Newton captured Miet Martens (1987)
A beautiful day celebrating the remarkable artistic collaboration of Artist Jan Fabre & Dramaturg Miet Martens.
We are delighted to extend a heartfelt invitation for an evening filled with music, performance and memories as we pay tribute to their remarkable partnership. Together, they have embarked on an extraordinary journey of creativity, innovation, and inspiration spanning four decades.
Saturday 25 May 2024 (14:00 - 00:00)
Troubleyn/Laboratorium, Pastorijstraat 23, Antwerp
*Ticket grants you access to PEAK MYTIKAS (ON THE TOP OF MOUNT OLYMPUS) - An 8 Hour Performance & the after-party with STEF KAMIL CARLENS TRIO. Tickets to performances are not sold separately.
Peak Mytikas (On the top of Mount Olympus) Performance: 14:00 - 22:00
The performance is 8 hours long with no intermission. Audience members are invited to come and go from the theatre as they please.
After sold-out performances in Milan and Budapest, eleven multi-talented performers (actors, dancers, and musicians) take to the stage in this eight-hour mythological rave.
“Do Greek myths still mean anything to us today? Answered by the extraordinary Peak Mytikas (On the top of Mount Olympus), an excellent text by Johan de Boose, an 8-hour performance by Jan Fabre, a genius multidisciplinary artist dedicated to active provocation, who makes the crossover between the arts, the signature of his visionary poetics, and 11 exceptional actors, dancers, musicians of astounding expressiveness…” - Magda Poli | Corriere della Sera
“After sitting through the eight-hour performance, we have to say: so much emotion, passion, agony, pain, physical and mental vulnerability could not have been presented in a shorter time…we felt that we could watch this for hours… those spectators, who persevered all the way, stood and celebrated the artists with bursting joy.” - Noémi Sümegi | Hungarian newspaper Index.hu
“(Jan Fabre) one of the greatest, one-of-a-kind artistic geniuses of our time… the rave takes hold of you and glues you to the seat… The audience, although somewhat exhausted from the eight-hour play, claps for the entire thirty minutes to the rhythm of that genius music, which slowly evaporates from their heads only a few days after watching the play.” - Ana Gruden | Croatian magazine Express
Stef Kamil Carlens is currently touring with the music from his new album 'Be(e) Who You Wanna Be(e)' with a new band 'The Swoon'. A powerful and energetic show, aimed at getting everyone's dancing feet moving.
For the celebration at Troubleyn, he'll perform as a trio, accompanied by Nel Ponsaers on keys & vocals, and Rahmat Emonds on mandolin, violin & vocals. SKC will perform on guitar, bass & vocals.
The trio performs relaxed versions of their own work and quirky interpretations of forgotten gems, with plenty of harmonies, rich analog sounds, and a deep love for lyrics.
After the concert, SKC will take over as DJ and spin some records, keeping the focus on the dance floor with infectious beats and irresistible rhythms!
