Michiel Vandevelde

         Paradise now (1968-2018) is a performance with 13 youngsters. The legendary performance Paradise now from The Living Theatre serves as a starting point. Michiel Vandevelde looks with a new generation of youngsters to how the world has evolved during these 50 years between 1968 and 2018. What has remained from the questions, desires and values of the sixties? How were ideas developed during the past years? How do the youngsters look to this history and how would they see their future?

In this new creation Vandevelde looks back in order to be able to say something about the future. In a world where ideology has been defeated, where climate change is a concrete threat to our existence, and where digital technology had drastically reshaped public discourse, it seems no longer possible to think the future. And yet, when 13 youngsters scan through 50 years of history, in a wild choreography of iconic images, maybe new perspectives open up.

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Presentations:

— 22 & 23 November 2019, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (DE)

— 25 October 2019, Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)

— 11 & 12 September 2019, Het Theaterfestival, Vooruit, Ghent (BE)

— 6 & 7 September 2019, Fabrik Potsdam, Potsdam (DE)

— 29 June 2019, Schäxpir festival, Linz (AU)

— 27 & 28 April 2019, Donau festival, Krems (AU)

— 5 April 2019, Tweetakt festival, Utrecht (NL)

— 22 November 2018, Jonge Harten, Groningen (NL)

— 12 November 2018, CC De Spil, Roeselare (BE)

— 1 & 2 November 2018, Politik im Freien Theater, Müncher Kammerspiele, Munich (DE)

— 30 & 31 October 2018, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)

— 26 October 2018, CC Westrand, Dilbeek (BE)

— 18 & 19 October 2018, STUK, Leuven (BE)
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— 4 & 5 October 2018, De Studio, Antwerp (BE)
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— 31 August and 1 September 2018, Tanz im August, Berlin (DE)
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— 26 May 2018, Vooruit, Ghent (BE)
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— 12 & 13 May 2018, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (BE)
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— 8, 9 & 10 May 2018, 20h30, STUK, Leuven (BE)
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