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what we saw last night at de witte zaal in ghent, might be the strangest performance of the year..
DE WITTE ZAAL is a quite strange place anyway (see picture), it is sort of like a hall, but with a lot of open side "doors" or holes, that could also be windows without windows as they're a little higher then the floor. the parts behind those halls can also be seen as a weird wooden stage or sit down zone..
for yesterday's show on this ENTRACTE night, JACQUES BELOEIL and MICHAEL ANACKER were sort of hidden behind one of these side holes/doors/windows. a red projection was shined onto another wall of the space, and out of every side space a smoke machine was blowing the space full of smoke while they played these beautiful delayed droned electronic soundscapes. at some point a wiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiw sounds joins in, perfectly synchronised with a casio beat and the other electronic sounds. the audience was left confused, didnt know where to look and standing all over the clouds, which already looked so alien. the soundtrack got more and more intense and some people started walking around totally stressed. narelle whispered "i think the wwiwiwiwwi" is the fire alarm. it kept on going for so long and we both decided "no it cant be the fire alarm as the volume changes".. 2 minutes later a mountain of firemen ran into the venue with strong white lights, while the show just went on, climbing on the walls trying to find the fire alarm..
this went on for a while and they just couldnt find it. it was beautiful! outside the blue lights of their car shined all over the cloudy space. it was all realy absurd and one could think that this was all a part of the show.
DE WITTE ZAAL is a quite strange place anyway (see picture), it is sort of like a hall, but with a lot of open side "doors" or holes, that could also be windows without windows as they're a little higher then the floor. the parts behind those halls can also be seen as a weird wooden stage or sit down zone..
for yesterday's show on this ENTRACTE night, JACQUES BELOEIL and MICHAEL ANACKER were sort of hidden behind one of these side holes/doors/windows. a red projection was shined onto another wall of the space, and out of every side space a smoke machine was blowing the space full of smoke while they played these beautiful delayed droned electronic soundscapes. at some point a wiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiw sounds joins in, perfectly synchronised with a casio beat and the other electronic sounds. the audience was left confused, didnt know where to look and standing all over the clouds, which already looked so alien. the soundtrack got more and more intense and some people started walking around totally stressed. narelle whispered "i think the wwiwiwiwwi" is the fire alarm. it kept on going for so long and we both decided "no it cant be the fire alarm as the volume changes".. 2 minutes later a mountain of firemen ran into the venue with strong white lights, while the show just went on, climbing on the walls trying to find the fire alarm..
this went on for a while and they just couldnt find it. it was beautiful! outside the blue lights of their car shined all over the cloudy space. it was all realy absurd and one could think that this was all a part of the show.
Posted on 06 Dec 2009 by dennis tyfus
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