He has only just graduated from RITCS as a director, but Ferenc Balcaen is already one of the most promising makers in the Brussels and Flemish performing arts landscape. He makes his stage debut at DE SINGEL with SCAPEGOAT. Balcaen transports you to an environment in the inferno, where time stands still and there is no longer any distinction between day and night. There are figures with melted faces wandering around there, so deformed that they appear unidentifiable. Their transformation is soon seen as a deformation and a process of dehumanisation is set in train. They have nothing left to lose, and so these scapegoats give themselves over with abandon to their wildest lusts and longings. SCAPEGOAT is a dance of despair driven by violence and eroticism. Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy and the sonata written by Franz Liszt based on that canonical epic, Balcaen creates an alternative world in which your understanding and compassion is challenged to the hilt.
Thematic trigger: This performance contains scenes that can be read as violent.
Technical trigger: this performance contains scenes with loud music. Earplugs will be distributed.