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Benjamin VerdonckSONG FOR GIGI (A FIRST ATTEMPT)
Benjamin Verdonck
Produced byToneelhuis
In 2014, theatre maker and visual artist Benjamin Verdonck made notallwhowanderarelost, where without using words or music he enthralled his audiences with lots of strings, colours and a trick with a chair. “Brimming with stillness and tranquillity, this production is a crystal-clear response to the hectic chaos and overly spectacular speed of our society,” said the jury of the Flanders Theatre Festival in 2014. After that came two “table theatre” shows One More Thing (2014) and Gille Learns to Read (2016). Liedje voor Gigi (Song for Gigi) is his newest work in this genre. The first part consists of a succession of miniature landscapes, all of which represent the same space, albeit at a different moment in time. The second part consists of a well-nigh endless series of panels that appear, disappear, open and close again, and in doing so continually represent new spaces within one and the same space. A visual elegy whereby Benjamin Verdonck once again is the machinist that starts the transformation of images only to become lost within it, this time accompanied by two musicians, Bram Devens and Tomas Desmet.