Chunking
© Maarten Vanden Abeele

Creation by Grace Ellen Barkey & Needcompany

In collaboration with Lot Lemm, Tijen Lawton, Maarten Seghers, Julien Faure, Louise Peterhoff and Benoît Gob.

Coproducers PACT Zollverein (Essen), Festival de Marseille, La Rose des Vents (Scène Nationale de Villeneuve d'Ascq).

With the cooperation of the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels Capital Region.

Needcompany is subsidized by the Flemish Community and supported by the National Lottery.

The evocative world of Chunking starts where theatre and dance confront the performance element of plastic art. A world where fabulous creatures live, where images and impressions repeatedly shoot past your retina. Images of animal creatures, almost amorphous, of circus artistes, of mad little fellows and odd figures, of sensual, lusty beings who stimulate your desire, of other dimensions where you are immersed in colour and form. A world in which sensuality, the bizarre and the frivolous meet, in which stories appear, but where the story is just one facet of a miraculous universe. A surrealistic world because it plays with the imagination, the spontaneous and the absurd.

Chunking includes a 20-minute choreography set to "Kill Your Idols", Sonic Youth's 1983 Five Song Album.

"... living-room ornament versus the primal, sometimes instinctive part of man – man without the varnish, as it were... the Sonic Youth world of Mike Kelly, Paul McCarthy and Raymond Pettibon that moves and stamps on the spot like a procession floundering walking from the deepest dream the dream of deconstruction, of disruption and eternal shifting the steaming beat of the disorderly and the disordered straight from the belly to the spectator’s throat a performance that’s really there but moves somewhere else..."
(Luk Lambrecht)

"Without exact borders, the song rose up, staked a claim on your attention, fears or desires and then turned into air." (Greil Marcus about Kill Yr. Idols, Sonic Youth)

 

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Creation by Grace Ellen Barkey & Needcompany

In collaboration with Lot Lemm, Tijen Lawton, Maarten Seghers, Julien Faure, Louise Peterhoff and Benoît Gob.

Coproducers PACT Zollverein (Essen), Festival de Marseille, La Rose des Vents (Scène Nationale de Villeneuve d'Ascq).

With the cooperation of the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels Capital Region.

Needcompany is subsidized by the Flemish Community and supported by the National Lottery.

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May 2005
12 MayEssen DEPACT Zollverein Premiere
13 MayEssen DEPACT Zollverein
14 MayEssen DEPACT Zollverein
19 MayAmsterdam NLDe Brakke Grond
20 MayAmsterdam NLDe Brakke Grond
21 MayAmsterdam NLDe Brakke Grond
July 2005
09 JulMarseille FRFestival de Marseille
October 2005
01 OctMechelen BEMechelen 2005, stad in vrouwenhanden
06 OctZurich CHTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
07 OctZurich CHTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
08 OctZurich CHTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
14 OctBrussels BEKaaitheater
15 OctBrussels BEKaaitheater
April 2006
06 AprMulhouse FRLa Filature
07 AprMulhouse FRLa Filature
May 2006
17 MayVilleneuve d'Ascq FRLa Rose des Vents
18 MayVilleneuve d'Ascq FRLa Rose des Vents
19 MayVilleneuve d'Ascq FRLa Rose des Vents
22 MayParis FRThéâtre de la Ville
23 MayParis FRThéâtre de la Ville
July 2006
28 JulVienna ATImPulsTanz
September 2006
08 SepFrankfurt am Main DEKünstlerhaus Mousonturm
09 SepFrankfurt am Main DEKünstlerhaus Mousonturm
November 2006
17 NovHérouville-Saint-Clair FRCentre Dramatique Nationale de Normandie, Comédie de Caen
18 NovHérouville-Saint-Clair FRCentre Dramatique Nationale de Normandie, Comédie de Caen
30 NovToulouse FRThéâtre Garonne
December 2006
01 DecToulouse FRThéâtre Garonne
09 DecEvry FRThéâtre de l'Agora
March 2007
06 MarSint-Niklaas BECC Sint-Niklaas
21 MarStrombeek-Bever BECC Strombeek
23 MarAalst BECC De Werf - Aalst
April 2007
25 AprWeimar DEKunstfest Weimar GmbH
May 2007
03 MayTongeren BECC De Velinx
12 MayBrescia ITIkos Festival 2007
15 MayLeuven BESTUK Kunstencentrum vzw
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