Delirium, the most recent work by Belgian choreographer and artist Miet Warlop, is a powerful whirlwind of dance by a disparate community of five performers and 1,500 metres of fabric that provides a stage for human fears, desires and secrets.
With Delirium, Belgian choreographer Miet Warlop is transporting the age-old concept of the ancient chorus into our fragmented present day. In Greek tragedy, the chorus represented all that which was too great to articulate, everything that lay beyond the narrative. Warlop renews the mythical power of the chorus as a community of the disparate that provides a stage for human fears, desires and secrets. Every voice retains its singularity in this dissonant choir; it is Warlop’s impressive answer to a present day in which we get together but rarely find each other: a powerful whirlwind of dance for five performers and 1,500 metres of fabric, in constant movement, as if struggling for quietude. The fabrics bulge, slip, form heaps and caress each other. Thus, Delirium becomes a celebration of individual variety, which places that which unites us at the centre. Following her celebrated guest performance of One Song, Miet Warlop is returning to Vienna with her most recent work, Delirium.
Concept, Scenography, Direction Miet Warlop Music Micha Volders With Milan Schudel, Emiel Vandenberghe, Margarida Ramalhete, Lara Chedraoui, Mattis Clement and more Costumes Miet Warlop in collaboration with Elias Demuynck supervised by Tom Van Der Borght Light design Henri Emmanuel Doublier Lights Pieter Kinoli Sound technician Ditten Lerooij Assistant director Marius Lefevre Production manager Sylvie Svanberg Outside eye Danai Anesiadou, Giacomo Bisordi General management Saskia Liénard Distribution Frans Brood Productions Thanks to Louise van den Eede, Michelle Vosters, Jeroen Olyslaegers, Flup Beys, Micha Volders, Pol Heyvaert, Kenneth De Vos, Geert Viaene / Amotec, Florence Carlisi, LOD muziektheater, Milo Rau, collab Hermes Holding Lyon
Production Miet Warlop / Irene Wool vzw Partner Kaaitheater (Brussels), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), La Biennale de la Danse (Lyon), Fondation Hermès, Tanzquartier Wien, Parc and Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris), Festival d’Automne à Paris, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, NTGent Coproduction Tandem – Scène nationale (Arras-Douai), Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel (Hamburg), Le Lieu Unique (Nantes), Romaeuropa Festival (Rome), Theaterfestival Boulevard, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Sharjah Art Foundation With the support of the Flemish Government, the City of Ghent and the Belgian Tax Shelter Distribution Frans Brood Productions World Premiere May 2025, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels)
A joint project by Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) I Free Republic of Vienna and Tanzquartier Wien
