Company Midnight (Belgium)
Saturday 20 June at 9.00 pm
Sunday 21 June at 7.30 pm
Park
Free admission, no booking required
Duration: 50 minutes
Recommended age: 6 years
An unhealthy mix of knife-throwing, a rogue computer and a whole host of terrible ideas.
A portrait of two unique specimens of Homo Sapiens Idioticus. Accomplices in the crime of having discovered everything that can be done with knives. At the heart of the show is a third protagonist: the structure. Suspended above the stage, 100 objects dangle in constant suspense. They could fall at any moment — triggered by a bespoke computer system and a single red button.
A contemporary circus show brimming with technology, featuring traditional touches of juggling, slapstick, Japanese cuisine, flairtending and magic.
Company Midnight was founded in 2015 under the non-profit organization ShakeThat. It is the natural continuation of the long-standing collaboration between Simone Scaini and Joris Verbeeren. Their shared history within ShakeThat, a deep affection for the night, and an unhealthy amount of experimentation eventually led to the inevitable birth of this company.
Joris is an autodidact with a love of slapstick, manipulation of everyday objects and questionable late-night ideas. Simone is a slightly neurotic, self-taught “Mad Professor” — obsessed with mechanics, precision and building things that probably shouldn’t exist.
Together they developed “US”, a project in which they immersed themselves in knife throwing and methodically dismantled and rebuilt the discipline according to their own logic.
Credits:
With and by: Joris Verbeeren & Simone Scaini
Coaching and outside eyes: Wennie Deruyck, Sander Decuyper, Maxime Dautremont, Hanne Vandersteene, Craig Weston
Light design: Seppe Brouckaert
Sound: Mathias Hoste
Technical support: Felix Repp, Emmanuele Marangon
Filming: Jakob Rosseel
Residencies: Transfo Labo, Cirkl Leuven, CC De Ververij, Transfo Zwevegem, Kunsten op Straat, Mira Miro, Perplx
With the support of the Flemish Government
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