Four witch-like figures set off on a journey through a dark forest. They are armed with absurdity, risky intuition, and lucid dreams. There is an intoxicating, warm wind that makes the trees move like snakes. The forest transforms into a strange mirrored landscape that absorbs them, as if they had always been part of it. It is a place outside of time, where magic and logic meet and where the personal and the collective intertwine.

Under Your Spell is a playful and physical performance that invites the audience to discover the different layers of femininity and experience the power of imagination as a driving force for change. In their quest, the performers try to challenge the idea of ‘first seeing then believing’ by sometimes actively believing in something that they cannot (yet) see.

Under Your Spell is an ode to not knowing, to daring to doubt and exploring new paths. It is both an attempt to cast off the spell that holds us under its grip and a critical reflection on the spells that we cast upon ourselves.

Audrey Apers (BE)

Audrey Apers (1991, BE) is a director and performer living and working in Brussels. She received her Bachelor of Modern Theater Dance from the AHK and danced from 2013 to 2019 with various choreographers. In 2023, she graduated as a creator with a Masters in Theater Directing from RITCS with her performance Vulcanize Me, shown at TAZ24 and Fringe Amsterdam. She is currently developing new work Under Your Spell that will première in Monty in Februari 2026.  Her work pursues female liberation, and she does so with burlesque incredulity. Everything is bathed in an aesthetic of raw directness and complexless je m’en foutism. The cosmic always traverses the banality of the everyday.