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EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE

Vibe Stalpaert

Maarten Seghers

EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE

Co creation Sung Im Her & Maarten Seghers
With a band of dancers, singers and musicians Martha Gardner, Sung Im Her, Elke Janssens, Ellen Rose Kelly, Jacob Kruger, Romy Louise Lauwers, Martha Pasakopoulou / HyaeJin Lee & Maarten Seghers

Dramaturgy Elke Janssens
Production manager Rune Floryn
Light Astrid Vansteenkiste
Sound Dries D’Hondt
Technical support Oscar van der Put
Costumes Sharlotta Seeligmüller
Assistent costumes Simon Perotti?
Intern (Director’s Assistant) Kamil Bazyl Książek
Intern (Technician) Mona Bonnevalle
Song 'We have to' Pablo Mariña
Graphic motion surtitles Finlay Degrauwe

Production Needcompany
With the support of the Flemish Government and the tax shelter of the Belgian Federal Government

Tour

December 2026

07 Dec

Girona ^ES

Temporada Alta Premiere

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Press kit

‘The anti-efficient spirit of what happens on this stage
comes from the observation that efficiency, in reality,
leads to the design of solutions
that are not answers to apparent problems.’
(libretto)

A million words to get nowhere.

Eight performers engage in a continuous questioning of humankind’s inefficiency. As metronomes of the world that render time tangible, they forge ahead unrelentingly. Singing with their bodies, dancing with their voices, caught up in an endless loop. Like Sisyphus - in Albert Camus’ hyper-optimistic vision - they engage in a boundless striving: an upward movement that goes downwards; and a downward movement that goes upwards, a re-evaluation of the inevitable.

As co-authors, Sung Im Her and Maarten Seghers delve into the history of their own autonomous oeuvre, seeking out movements and songs in which the intensity of the effort peels itself back to become content. Their fascination with the absurd revolves around the poetic and humorous value of the attempt.

‘EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE’ is an anti-dystopian manifesto, disguised as a poem, in which a choir of bodies sings about HUMANITY, its (non)sense, failure and resilience, with the simplicity of an endless pop song. ‘EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE’ is a song about the irreversible awareness of finitude in search of the comforting but hopeful idea of evolution, imagined as a closed circle.

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