CREATION 2008: COLLATERAL DAMAGEEISBÄR* is a new performance group from Antwerp and exists of two members.
Femke Heijens and Benny Claessens.
In 2006 they made "Gollygosh no! for a second there i thought i was involved" at Het Toneelhuis in Antwerp."Gollygosh no!" was a performance about becoming indiffrent.About not taking responsibility regarding the madness around us.And also about commiting horrible acts that change nothing.
"Gollygosh no" played the week during the rascist killings of Hans van Temsche in Antwerp and got some really good and some really horrible reactions.
This performance was called decadent and uncalled for in "de morgen" a flemish newspaper and was also called an animalistic solo and part of belgians top-performances in ballet-tanz (europes leading dancemagazine)
Just come and watch this performance and see for yourself.We plan to keep it on our repertory.We are also talking to people about publishing a photobook Maarten van den Abeele (Pina Bausch, deus, peeping tom, needcompany...) made together with annemie knaepkens.Be sure to look out for it.ALWAYS CRY AT ENDINGS (2007)In 2007 Eisbär* made "always cry at endings" together with Els van Peborgh. performance outdoors about finding freedom, redemption,defining space, explaining yourself and becoming the machines you own.In order to destruct nature one needs to destruct himself.(ASHLEY: What happened to you? Who did this to you?Did someone in the woods do this to you?
CHERRYL:No Ashley, it were the woods themselves, they're alive Ashley, the trees, they're alive)"fascinating punktheater...a three hours rollercoaster-ride throughout every movie and theatergenre in the shadow of death and the pain of dying...unballanced punkyheater and because of this unbalance intriguing...a mix of farce and ritual,arty farty and honesty pose presented as honesty to flip this completely over again"
(liv laveyne, de morgen)"a primal scream in the middle of the night...the audience thinks they're on another planet...theater is not dead.It's alive in an empty barrack in antwerp."
(nele verheye/cutting edge)"eisbär shows a cultural jamsession, a shameless cut up from horrormovies and tacky music...the intentions were good, the realisation sucked"
(manuel h/cutting edge)"three hours of trashy punktheater"(de standaard)Always cry at endings is playing in september , october and may 2008 again.Eisbär is planning on making "collateral damage" in 2008.More about that later.members of EISBAR also work with directors in other theatres.The past few years they worked with Luk Perceval,schaubühne am lehniner platz berlin, wiener festwochen, Wim Vandekeybus,festival d' avignon, singapore arts festival, Josse De Pauw, Sarah Moeremans,buelens paulina and many others...
the pictures of gollygosh are made by maarten van den abeele who also worked for
needcompany ( brussels ), deus and pina bausch ( wuppertal )
pictures of always cry at endings are taken by veronique lecoque (www.veroniquelecoque.com)
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