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LOVE AND BEAUTY ARE THE POWERS SUPREME

FESTIVAL
3 - 27 FEBRUARY 2025
@ TROUBLEYN/LABORATORIUM

Love and Beauty Are the Powers Supreme is a festival celebrating the transformative power of creativity, passion, and resilience. With five remarkable performances...The program includes three captivating new solo works: I’m Sorry with Stella Höttler, Io sono un errore with Irene Urciuoli, and I Believe in the Legend of Love with Ivana Jozic. Complementing these is Elle était et elle est, même, a mesmerizing piece by Fabre’s longtime performer, Els Deceukelier. At the festival's heart lies the monumental Peak Mytikas (On the Top of Mount Olympus), an eight-hour mythological rave blending ritual and rebellion, ecstasy and catharsis.
 

10 DAY MASTERCLASS

COMING UP AT TROUBLEYN LABORATORIUM, ANTWERP
Open for actors, dancers and performers. New dates announced in February 2025 (...)
Working with teachers Annabelle Chambon and Cédric Charron.
 

ART & ARCHITECTURE DISCOVERY TOUR @Troubleyn/Laboratorium

Discover the Troubleyn/Laboratorium and its art during this unique behind-the-scenes guided tour.

PEAK MYTIKAS (On the top of Mount Olympus)

AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF BUDAPEST / MITEM INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL IN BUDAPEST

Saturday 13 April 2024 (14:00 - 22:00) SOLD OUT


AT THE TROUBLEYN/LABORATORIUM, ANTWERP

Saturday 25 May 2024 (14:00 - 22:00) TICKETS

AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF BUDAPEST / MITEM INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL IN BUDAPEST

Saturday 13 April 2024 (14:00 - 22:00) SOLD OUT


AT THE TROUBLEYN/LABORATORIUM, ANTWERP

Saturday 25 May 2024 (14:00 - 22:00) TICKETS

Eleven multi-talented performers (actors, dancers, and musicians) join Jan Fabre in the creation of this 8-hour-long mythological rave.

Io sono un errore (I am a mistake) | With Irene Urciuoli

I am a mistake is a theatre text written by Jan Fabre in 1988. It is a manifest that amounts almost to a profession of faith by the artist. The blunt confession 'I am a mistake' is like a mantra that repeats and divides...

I believe in the legend of love | With Ivana Jozic

Jan Fabre wrote I believe in the legend of love in the form of a letter from a man to his beloved. The outcome is a truly personal text, about loving and letting go.

Elle etait et elle est, meme | with Els Deceukelier

She was and she is, even is inspired by Duchamp’s artwork, The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (The Large Glass). Els Deceukelier plays a seductive bride situated in the twilight zone between reality and imagination...
 

I'm sorry | With Stella Hottler

The character played by Stella Höttler is lost and confused in this changing world. Therefore, she apologizes herself for everything—for how she looks, for how she behaves, for what she says … She tries to find her way in the world of self-censorship...

SIMONA, THE GANGSTER OF ART | with Irene Urciuoli

The monologue details ’Simona the Stylite’ and her criminal plan to restore the healing and spiritual power of beauty.

Friday 1 December (20:00 - 21:00)
Belgian PremièreSimona, the gangster of art, features a female saint, a protagonist who is on a mission to restore one of the most essential duties of humanity: to fight for the power of beauty.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV in 'Not Once'. © Phil Griffin
NOT ONCE.

For the past four years, iconic Belgian artist Jan Fabre and legendary performer Mikhail Baryshnikov have worked together on their first collaboration. British artist Phil Griffin joined them as a co-director of the film Not Once. (...)

 
© Stas Levshin
The Night Writer - Russia

Jan Fabre created for the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Saint Petersburg an intimate version of The Night Writer. Fabre's first repertoire play in Russia is alternately played by two talented actors: Andrej Feskov and Alexander Molochinikov (...)

 

Jan Fabre Teaching Group

"The contemporary performer unites performance, theatre, and dance. Fabre always looks for physical impulses in and on the bodies of his performers and stimulates them to act on stage on the basis of those ‘real’ physical sensations." (...)

The great European stage directors, from Stanislavksi to Fabre

The prestigious British publishing house Bloomsbury Publishing UK(Methuen Drama) recently launched 8 volumes "The great European stage directors, from Stanislavksi to Fabre"! Volume #8 is about Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre. For sale online (...)

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