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We Agree To Disagree / Création 2020

 

A Beautiful Collective Creation & Street Performance

The Malunés Collective invites you — if you agree — to take part in a personal and collective experience: a moment of circus that is at once virtuosic, pathetic, aesthetic, sometimes chaotic, of course acrobatic, featuring the organic, heroic assembly of a rig — all set to music!

Upon your arrival, we will come to meet you. We will approach you to share secrets. You might even be encouraged to confide in us. All of you will be invited to participate — more than that, to co-create! Don’t worry, the risks will be under control.

We Agree To Disagree speaks about the absurdity of today’s seriousness. Insolence, offbeat humor, Belgian wit and political incorrectness are the ingredients used to fight conformism and nurture the hope of brighter tomorrows.

Later, when you tell your loved ones about this gentle moment, you won’t be able to say, “I saw the show,” but rather, “I was part of it.”

© Marie Monteiro

Intention

Drawing on our experience as a collective, we want to address more broadly the different ways human beings succeed — or fail — in living and working together. We aim to create a satire of the social structures we know and experience daily, to take on roles and immerse ourselves in various political systems that humans (and why not animals?) have used to coexist — democracy, communism, anarchy…

Having joined forces ten years ago, having created and lived together, the question of how a collective functions remains current and essential for us, and has become the core of our new creative research.

We want to highlight our successes and our disagreements — and confront the audience with them.

Is collective creation possible when we are all different?

How do we make choices and take the right decisions?

Making compromises, trusting one another, manipulating individuals or crowds, convincing the group, voting, choosing, forming alliances against each other.

This creation will unfold as an experiment — a mise en abyme of society — using the audience as citizens or members of a community, sometimes active decision-makers or even executioners, sometimes spectators, passive or even manipulated.

Through this new project, We Agree To Disagree, the Malunés Collective seeks to present a contemporary, biting and powerful performance about the question of “living together.”

Cast

Authors & Performers:

Simon Bruyninckx, Juliette Correa, Lola Devault-Sierra, Luke Horley, Gabriel Lares, Arne Sabbe, Nickolas Van Corven

Touring Artists 2022 & 2023:
Mohamed Keita, Antonio Terrones, Viola Grazoli, Antoine Dupeyrot, Alexis Chauvelier, Marine Fourteau

Outside Eye: Bram Dobbelaere
Set Builder: Joppe Wouters
Lighting Designer: Olivier Duris
Logistics: Viola Grazioli
Production & Distribution: Emma Ketels
Administration: Eugénie Fraigneau

Partners

Co-producers:
L’OARA (Office Artistique Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine),
CNAREP Sur le Pont – La Rochelle (FR),
PNC Le Palc – Châlons-en-Champagne (FR),
PNC L’Agora – Boulazac (FR),
Perplx – Kortrijk (BE),
Miramiro – Ghent (BE),
Circuswerkplaats Dommelhof (BE),
Festival de Chassepierre (BE)


Support:
(CZ)


Funding:
Vlaamse Overheid (BE), SPEDIDAM, ADAMI