Rehearsals during which there will be work on initial tests for the scenography.

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Bosse Provoost (BE) & Ezra Veldhuis (NL)

Ezra Veldhuis and Bosse Provoost have been explo­ring the bor­der­lands bet­ween the­a­ter, per­for­man­ce and instal­la­ti­on art together sin­ce 2018. Their work is infu­sed with a fas­ci­na­ti­on for light, spa­ce and scenography. Through com­po­si­ti­ons of light shifts, sound pat­ches and silen­ces, they cre­a­te ever-chan­ging spa­ces popu­la­ted by semi-human-loo­king figu­res. Theater spa­ces are ener­gi­zed into ‘envi­ron­ments’, in which meta­the­a­tri­cal and eco­sys­te­mic logics diver­ge.

Poetry is not only at the ori­gin of most of their work (Celan, Christensen, Brautigan…), the per­for­man­ces are also con­struc­ted fol­lo­wing poe­tic prin­ci­ples and can be read as sce­nic poems. Between 2017 and 2021 they cre­a­ted the per­for­man­ces Matisklo (2018), SUN-SET (2020) and Indoor Weather (2021) at Toneelhuis.

Currently, the artis­tic prac­ti­ce of Ezra Veldhuis and Bosse Provoost is sup­por­ted by Hiros. Their first work with Hiros was All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2023), the sta­ging of an idyllic/dystopian “cyber­ne­tic mea­dow”, as drea­med up in a Richard Brautigan poem of the same name.