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BURNING CITY

HetPaleis / theater arsenaal / KVS
Tue 11.03.2025 - Wed 12.03.2025
11.03.2025
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12.03.2025

This performance arose from the SOCHA project, a community of performers of all generations, cultures, and disciplines, guided by KVS face Junior Mthombeni and dramaturge Gerardo Salinas. They found an ambitious and dynamic artistic mix that came together in On Fire, a series of performances with the SOCHA group. Burning City will be the culmination of those On Fires, expressing the new city in all its raw, unequal glory.

 

The reptile brain 

Cops stop you

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

A small bomb in your street

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Parents pulling each other’s hair 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Climate crisis at home 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Make America Racist Again 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Far right wins the elections 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Akosua, Kwabena, Li Wei, Olga, Ahmed move to your street 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

AI is in control

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

Dark street, someone yells, someone whistles

Fight, Flight, Freeze, …. 

 

Our reptile brain wants only one thing: survival. How can we find our way out of this turmoil? The answer is simple: make chaos. Put 15 artists with ADHD, autism, trauma, epilepsy, high sensitivity on a stage. Let us rise above, conquer all of this shit together for a moment, to emerge and change the world. 

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CO-PRESENTATION

Extra

ALBUMRELEASE 'HONGER' 

In Burning City kan je een aantal nummers van de hand van acteur, muzikant en rapper Marios Bellas horen. Op 5 februari '25 brengt hij Diep Gaan uit, de eerste single van zijn debuutalbum Honger (release 1 maart). Diep Gaan is een energieke track over late nachten doorwerken, moeilijkheden trotseren, offers maken en ver durven gaan om een visie te realiseren. Fan van de muziek in de voorstelling? Check dan zeker Diep Gaan en Honger!

Credits

van & met | de & avec | by & with Vianney Adriaens, Marios Bellas, Nina Plantefève-Castryck, Amina Iddrisu, Alix Konadu, Tonic Mendi Jacobs, Junior Mthombeni & Zach Swagga muzikanten | musiciens | musicians Abel Baeck, Arne Demets, Mirko Banovic, Chris Joris & Tom Kestens regie | mise en scène | direction Junior Mthombeni muzikale leiding | direction musicale | musical direction Tom Kestens geluid / son / sound Dieter Lambrechts licht/ lumière / light Jasper Vanhalle regie-assistent / beeld | assistant mise en scène / image | assistant director / image productie | production hetpaleis, KVS and theater arsenaal met de steun van | avec le soutien de | with the support de taxsheltermaatregel van de Belgische Federale Overheid via BNP Paribas Fortis Film Fund