Fabels
© Sarah Yu Zeebroek
Photo’s: Phile Deprez
The Cricket-Who-Likes-To-Chill. The Snake of Longing who, yearning and dreaming, never embarks on her journey. The Disputurtle who falls in love with a Bird who lovingly contradicts him. And, of course, the white Scholar Bear whose non-stop philosophising sees him end up beached on a beach that is far too hot. According to the dictionary, a fable is a short story that proclaims a commonly known truth by means of a striking example. But do those truths still exist in a world where we increasingly disagree with each other?
The dazzling musical performance Fabels puts this to the test. Players, musicians and audience embark on an exciting journey together: jumping through the forest, stirring up the desert, floating down the river, landing on the volcano, flying over an ice floe and stranding on the coast. Centuries-old stories are shuffled, pruned and pieced back together, resulting in a procession of wondrous encounters between equally wondrous creatures. Is that where the truth lies?
Composers Osama Abdulrasol and Erik Desimpelaere, together with Naomi van der Horst, Sophia Bauer, Ibe Rossel and Sarah Yu Zeebroek, create wonder about the power and importance of great stories. Within this ode to the classic animal fable, the past, present and future merge. An often humorous journey through time and space in which each story deserves its melancholic musicality or theatrical ferocity.
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Creation:
Naomi van der Horst, Ibe Rossel, Sarah Yu Zeebroek, Sophia Bauer – Fabels
Text:
Ibe Rossel – Fabels
Composition:
Osama Abdulrasol & Erik Desimpelaere – Fabels
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Creation: Naomi van der Horst, Ibe Rossel, Sarah Yu Zeebroek, Sophia Bauer
Text: Ibe Rossel
Actors: Sophia Bauer, Naomi van der Horst
Visuals & scenography: Sarah Yu Zeebroek
Composition: Osama Abdulrasol, Erik Desimpelaere
Musicians: Tille Van Gastel (flute), Bram Fournier (trombone), Osama Abdulrasol (qanun), François Taillefer (percussion)
Dramaturgy: Johan Van Acker
Lighting: Jeroen Doise
Sound: Victor Hidalgo
Technicians: Jonas De Wulf, Koen DemeyereProduction: KOPERGIETERY, KGbe & I SOLISTI
Co-production: De Centrale & Muziekcentrum De Bijloke.Produced with the support of the Belgian Federal Government’s Tax Shelter incentive through Flanders Tax Shelter.