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Building Bodies
Building Bodies
KOPERGIETERY
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Tour dates
Mon
28 Apr '25
13:30
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Tue
29 Apr '25
13:30
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Thu
26 Jun '25
19:00
(NL) Tweetakt Festival, Utrecht
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TWEETAKT FESTIVAL
speellocatie op te vragen via festival
Utrecht, Nederland
+31 (0)30 7116642
Website
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Previous dates
Fri
31 Jan '25
20:00
KG RABOT
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KOPERGIETERY RABOT
Vlotstraat 22
9000 Gent
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Sat
01 Feb '25
20:00
KG RABOT
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KOPERGIETERY RABOT
Vlotstraat 22
9000 Gent
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Mon
03 Feb '25
10:00
KG RABOT
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KOPERGIETERY RABOT
Vlotstraat 22
9000 Gent
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Mon
03 Feb '25
14:00
KG RABOT
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KOPERGIETERY RABOT
Vlotstraat 22
9000 Gent
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Tue
04 Feb '25
10:00
KG RABOT
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KOPERGIETERY RABOT
Vlotstraat 22
9000 Gent
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Tue
04 Feb '25
14:00
KG RABOT
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KOPERGIETERY RABOT
Vlotstraat 22
9000 Gent
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Wed
05 Feb '25
20:00
KG RABOT
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KOPERGIETERY RABOT
Vlotstraat 22
9000 Gent
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Thu
06 Feb '25
14:00
KG RABOT
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KOPERGIETERY RABOT
Vlotstraat 22
9000 Gent
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Thu
06 Feb '25
20:00
KG RABOT
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KOPERGIETERY RABOT
Vlotstraat 22
9000 Gent
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Tue
11 Feb '25
13:45
CC de Herbakker, Eeklo
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Pastoor De Nevestraat 10
9900 Eeklo
09 218 27 27
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Sat
01 Mar '25
20:30
Hasselt, Krokusfestival
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Krokusfestival
Kunstlaan 5
3500 Hasselt
011 22 99 33
www.krokusfestival.be
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Tue
11 Mar '25
14:00
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Wed
26 Mar '25
10:00
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26 Mar '25
20:00
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An ode to our strength and our vulnerability.
For 'Building Bodies', choreographer/creator Jotka Bauwens challenges three stage performers to a physical and mental rollercoaster. Under the guidance of world bodybuilding champion Kurt De Taeye, she follows a professional bodybuilding workout for two months together with performers Elias Vandenbroucke, Patrick Vervueren and Jeffrey Jackson Loewenicht. Their bodies are measured, nutrition schedules drawn up, a daily workout established. They get a workout in which the body and mind face major challenges.
Which feelings, thoughts or physical sensations are released?
Who experiences new strengths, or who gets frustrated?
How far will they (want to) go?
What does this do to each of them as a person, what does this do to them as a group?
Searching for answers to all of these questions, they build ‘Building Bodies' together with Jotka. A visual-physical performance around the strength and vulnerability of body and mind. Because with strength, are we not building armour around our insecurities?
‘Building Bodies’ grew out of dancer/choreographer Jotka Bauwens' personal story and journey. As a young person, she did not always feel comfortable in her own skin. After her dance training, she still didn't feel in her power. Jotka searched for what she was missing as a dancer, and discovered fitness and power training. What struck her in those cold fitness rooms was the contrast between those strong bodies and the vulnerable personalities behind them. In her own way, it made her feel at home and safe. Through power training, she built a strong armour around her own insecurities and her body found more strength than ever before. As a dancer/player, she blossomed - more self-confident and energetic as she was - on stage. The gym became a place of inspiration and her fascination and appreciation for a more extreme form of power training like bodybuilding remains, but not without reservation. 'Building Bodies’ is a form of gratitude to the body and the mind. An ode to our strength and our vulnerability.
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PRODUCTION BY KOPERGIETERY & KGbe
CONCEPT & DIRECTION: Jotka Bauwens
WITH: Jeffrey Jackson Loewenicht, Elias Vandenbroucke, Patrick Vervueren
FINAL DIRECTION: Randi De Vlieghe
COACHING: Fée Roels
COSTUMES: Valerie Le Roy
LIGHT: Kris Van Oudenhove
SOUND: Lene Maesen
STAGE DESIGN: Kris Van Oudenhove
TECHNIQUE: Lene Maesen, Geeraard Respeel, Bart Van Bellegem, Kris Van Oudenhove
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Maaike Scheltjens
WITH THE SUPPORT OF the Tax Shelter measurement of the Belgian federal government via Flanders tax shelter
PRESS QUOTE
You start bodybuilding to feel more confident, but don't you come out of it more vulnerable? That process is dazzlingly shown in Building Bodies. (...) The performance is full of humour, bringing the underlying tragedy to the surface more and more. The three characters seem less and less self-confident. Can't they use their strong physiques for something other than shows? Is that bodybuilding really so good for your inner well-being? Fitness is good and fine, but it is not enough, seems to be Jotka Bauwens' message in this powerful performance. In any case, it offers plenty of food for (self)reflection. THEATERKRANT.NL, Tuur Devens
Jotka Bauwens graduated from the contemporary dance programme at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 2013. As a child/youngster, she was associated with the theatre workshops of KOPERGIETERY. She currently works as a dancer, actress and maker, as well as being a physical coach/dance teacher for theatre productions and film. In recent years, she has performed for theatre houses BRONKS, FroeFroe, Theater De Spiegel and dOFt, among others. In 2016, she made her first own creation 'MEIS', a dance piece around gender and sexuality. Jotka also works regularly as a dance and theatre teacher at hetpaleis and KOPERGIETERY.
Jeffrey Jackson Loewenicht is a HipHop, Krump and Electro dancer, choreographer, music producer, actor and theatre maker. He co-founded the Utrecht-based performing arts collective MENSJA in 2019. Jeffrey discovered dance at a young age, from the local dance school his passion for different dance cultures grew. Mainly 'freestyling' suited him, later he became a forerunner in Electro. He won Kunstbende 2016 and became a semi-finalist in the dance programme ‘Time to dance’ and electro dance festival ‘Frequency’.
Elias Vandenbroucke is a creator, performer, musician and singer. He studied cabaret at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. For his graduation project 'Kluster' with Gode Kempen, he received the prize of the youth jury at Theater Aan Zee and the Best international performance award at the Fringe festival in Amsterdam. As an actor, he appeared on stage for Laika, Ontroerend Goed and Orkater, among others.
Patrick Vervueren is an artist/theatre maker with the frieda collective. As an actor, he has performed for Nevski Prospekt, FroeFroe, KOPERGIETERY and Laika and in various Flemish TV series. For several years, he has also been a theatre teacher in the KOPERGIETERY theatre workshops.