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VICTOR
a work created together with director Peter Seynaeve


A duet for a boy and a man.

In VICTOR it’s the bodies that speak. A duet by two bodies, a man and a child. One has already come a long way, the other wants to grow as soon as possible. A sensual game of muscle, but also a power game with unequal weapons. A little story about big and honest, strong and innocent, but above all about wanting to be close. An intimate portrait of a relationship.

In VICTOR  the theatre-maker and actor Peter Seynaeve and choreographer and dancer Jan Martens are creating a performance together for the first time. The pieces they have both made previously were in the first place portraits – portraits of individuals, but also of relationships. In addition, VICTOR provides a dance-based response to the earlier work with children onstage (for an adult audience) that was produced at CAMPO.

TANZ october 2013:
Ein Mann, Ein Junge, ein leerer Raum, in den dann und wann der Gesang eines Männerchors sickert: Minimalistisch formatiert und dennoch von unvergleichlicher Wirkung ist "Victor", das einstündige Kammerspiel des belgischen Inszenierungstandems Jan Martens und Peter Seynaeve.




with viktor caudron and steven michel
produced by campo, coproduced by frascati, ICKamsterdam, TAKtdommelhof and JAN
supported by zuidpool
image by studio rios zertuche
stage photography by Phile Deprez