Lijfbouwers
Jotka Bauwens / PjotrThe exact date and location for this performance will be announced soon.
For Lijfbouwers [Body Builders], choreographer/creator Jotka Bauwens challenges three stage performers to a physical ánd mental rollercoaster. Under the guidance of world bodybuilding champion Kurt De Taeye, performers Elias Vandenbroucke, Patrick Vervueren and Jeffrey Jackson Loewenicht follow a professional bodybuilding workout for two months. Their bodies are measured, nutrition schedules drawn up, a daily workout established. They get a workout in which body and mind face great challenges.
What feelings, thoughts or physical sensations are released?
Who experiences new strengths, 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 these questions, the performers build Lijfbouwers together with Jotka Bauwens. A visual-physical performance around strength, insecurities and vulnerability. One thing is certain: our bodies as well as our minds are capable of much more than we think.
credits
concept & direction
Jotka Bauwenswith
Jeffrey Jackson Loewenicht , Elias Vandenbroecke, Patrick Vervuerenfinal direction
Randi De Vlieghecoaching
Fée Roelscostumes
Valerie Le Royproduction
KOPERGIETERY & KGbewith the support of
the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Governement
