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7 August 2024
shoe/farm - prelude
buren | BE
One grew up on a farm in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. The other in a shoe shop along the Belgian coast. In glass slippers and sturdy boots, the theatre company buren travels through different times, from pre-industrial to the era of internet shopping.
Location
Verkadefabriek/Grote zaal
Running time
50 min.
Genre
Installatie, Muziektheater, Theater
After the performance SPARE TIME WORK (Boulevard 2022), buren continues their exploration of social roles and power relations. This time, the duo hoists themselves in ropes, ripped jeans and delicate lace curtains. On the farm, their worn-out trousers are a sign of hard work. In the city, they are a fashion statement.
As 'daughters of', they put on their ancestors’ shoes and intertwine them with their own experiences and fantasies. In a role-play between fact and fiction and with a nod to the typical West Flemish work ethic, they try to Chanel-len their inner Balance-iage and highlight the relationship between customer and seller, producer and product.
Buren was also featured on Boulevard last year, with their performance T-shirt Conversations they showed the multiformity of their humour.
Good to know
- This performance is in English.
Shoe/farm – prelude is performed as part of the European project apap – Feminist Futures and is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Joeri Thiry
Concept, performance, scenography, costumes buren (Oshin Albrecht & Melissa Mabesoone)
Light Vera Martins
Music buren & Benjamin Cools
Sound, mix Benne Dousselaere
Outside eye Charlotte Vanden Eynde
Administration Margaux Janssens
Producer au bureau
Coproducers Kaaitheater, Kunstencentrum BUDA, workspacebrussels, C-takt, KAAP, de Brakke Grond, Theaterfestival Boulevard, STUK, apap - FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
