Inhale Delirium Exhale

Thu, Aug 14, 2025 t/m Fri, Aug 15, 2025

Miet Warlop | [BE]

Delirium Miet Warlop (c)Reinout Hiel-dpi-

After the powerful 'ONE SONG' (Boulevard 2023), Miet Warlop returns to the festival with a brand-new performance. In 'Inhale Delirium Exhale', she rolls out metres of silk across the stage. Performers disappear into it, wrestle with it, and dance through it. What seems soft turns out to be stubborn. What looks playful, sometimes scrapes. The result is a world where wonder, disorientation and delight go hand in hand.

Location

Theater aan de Parade/Casinozaal

Duration

60 min.

Entrance fee

€ 23

Price Friend

€ 21

Genre

Dans, Theater

Date

Thu, Aug 14, 2025 t/m Fri, Aug 15, 2025

Language

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Miet Warlop’s work is nearly impossible to capture in words. 'Inhale Delirium Exhale' is no linear story, but a stream of images – a tribute to imagination. Poetic, physical, and at times absurd. Warlop lets go of perfection. She welcomes frayed edges, disruptions, and accidents. What starts as scenery becomes a character. What is gentle, turns forceful. A sensory universe unfolds, where beauty and irony shift and swirl.

Characteristic of her style is the playful use of meaning: a childlike gesture can suddenly take on deep, philosophical weight. The soundtrack – mesmerising and masterful – carries the images and quickens the rhythm. Balance emerges between surrender and control, lightness and urgency.

Those who surrender to this ritual trip are drawn into an experience that is both crystal clear and enigmatic. A dance with fabric, a plunge into the subconscious – a moment of mental stillness amidst the chaos.

'Inhale Delirium Exhale' celebrates its Dutch premiere at Boulevard on Thursday 14 August.

About the artist
Miet Warlop is a visual theatre maker who sees the stage as her canvas. Her work balances performance, visual art and ritual. She previously impressed the audience with 'ONE SONG' [2023] and the musical 'Ghost Writer and the Broken Hand Break' [2019]. In 2026, she will represent Belgium at the Venice Biennale.

Credits

Concept, scenography and direction Miet Warlop
Music in collaboration with DEEWEE
Performers Milan Schudel, Emiel Vandenberghe, Margarida Ramalhete, Lara Chedraoui, Mattis Clement, Elias Demuynck ea
Scenography Miet Warlop ism Mattis Clement
Costumes Miet Warlop icw Elias Demuynck with artistic supervise of Tom Van Der Borght
Stage Nel Gevaerts / KITOS & Nana Bonsu, Sofia Ristori / Ursulinen Mechelen
Textile creatives Ginger Bogaert, Rowan Boeijen, Michelle Van Neste
Light design Henri Emmanuel Doublier
Light Pieter Kinoli
Sound Ditten Lerooij
Direction-assistant Marius Lefever
Production head Sylvie Svanberg
Technical coördination Marjolein Demey
Outside eye Danai Anesiadou, Giacomo Bisordi
General direction Saskia Liénard
Spread Frans Brood Productions
Photo Reinout Hiel

Coproducent Kunstenfestivaldesarts & Kaaitheater Brussel (BE), La Biennale de Lyon (FR), Tanzquartier Wenen (DE), La Villette Parijs (FR), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxemburg (LU), NTGent (BE), Tandem Scène Nationale Arras/Douai (FR), Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel Hamburg (DE), Le Lieu Unique Nantes (FR), Romaeuropa Festival Rome (IT), Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT), Theaterfestival Boulevard ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL), Athens & Epidaurus Festival (GR), Sharjah Art Foundation (AE), HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin (DE), Temporada Alta – Festival internacional de Catalunya Girona/Salt (ES). With support of the Flemish Government, Stad Gent, Perpodium and Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government