For most performances, the audience sits neatly arranged in the theatre, leaning back in comfortable seats while the performers stand at a distance on stage. With INVITED, choreographer Seppe Baeyens tries to formulate his artistic response to the question: how can the audience participate in creating the choreography of a performance? With dance as a common language, he aims to create a community in a limited time and space in which the boundaries between the cast and the audience are blurred. INVITED comprises a diverse and intergenerational group of performers who mirror today’s society. The scenography both unites and divides, becomes visible and invisible, and leads the audience and the performers through the collectively written story. A performance for both young and old. Ultima Vez’s 94-year old neighbour is also taking part!
“The way in which the makers involve their audience in the action makes this a groundbreaking performance.” - Focus Knack.
The scenography was inspired by the installation ‘ROPE - Possibilities of Binding’ commissioned by N.O.W and supported by extrapole, Fabbrica Europa, Indisciplinarte, Latitudes Contemporaines, Lókal, Mom/El Vivero, Trafó, and wpZimmer. N.O.W was co-financed by the European Union’s Creative European Program.