BREAKFASTCLUB is an intimate meeting with an artistic proposal and with each other. During a meeting at an unusual time with a snack and a drink as a binding factor, other ways of sharing, looking and experiencing become possible. Gouvernement’s concept combines artists’ presentation moments with a moderated conversation on the themes evoked by the works on show.
In the context of DANSAND!, BREAKFASTCLUB #13 questions the (unspoken) contract between the audience and the performer.
The classic division of roles between passive viewer at a distance and the active dancer on stage is waning. Just look at this festival’s programme. For instance, in The Dancing Public Mette Ingvartsen invites the audience to dance with her. Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira take a different approach: they critically interrogate and invert the consuming gaze and the potential violence that comes with it.
What new relationships are emerging today between performer and spectator. Where do they come from and what implications do they have for the work, the performer and the audience?
With these questions in mind, Camille Paycha & Sofie Velghe present an excerpt from their latest stage work 60 degrees of Separation. This will be followed by an intervention by dancer Arsène Etaba. Afterwards, Lisa Vereertbrugghen joins for a moderated discussion in which the above questions are explored together with the audience.
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LOCATION
Klief – Koninklijke villa
Koningsstraat 79
8400 Oostende
DATE
Saturday 28 juni 2025 from 11:00
LANGUAGE
English
TICKETS
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BREAKFASTCLUB IS Vincent Focquet, Marie Umuhoza, Lauren Borremans en Nele Keukelier A PROJECT BY Gouvernement WITH SUPPORT OF KAAP, VIERNULVIER, STUK, Campo, het Theaterfestival, Rekto:Verso, Universiteit Gent en De Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Camille Paycha
Camille Paycha graduated from the Academy of Circus and Performance Art in Tilburg in 2015. Camille makes her own work under the organisation Boegbeeld based in Oostende in Belgium. She is CircusNext laureate in 2021 with her creation Ice Skates and Other Cruelties and is selected for Het TheaterFestival 2025 for her latest piece 60 degrees of separation. Camille is also a pedagogue at the Academy of Circus and Performance Art in Tilburg and at the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in France. She writes article on circus, performs for other companies such as Side-Show and is doing dramaturgy for the dance and circus company Panama Pictures.
Camille has an all-round profile in the field and uses all that broad experience in the making of her work. As a maker, Camille Paycha inhabits a specific position within the field. She aims at combining a clear and challenging vision with being open to many audiences. She is on a quest for a sustainable world where virtuosity, care and pleasure coexist and where no assumption goes unquestioned. In continuous discussion with her circus discipline, Camille Paycha experiments with circus as a practice, flying, hanging and spinning around humour, violence, objects, bodies, morality, immorality and all their intersections.
Lisa Vereertbrugghen
Lisa Vereertbrugghen is a choreographer, dancer, and dramaturg based in Brussels, researching
social dance and the interaction between music and dance on the dancefloor. She studied cultural
history at the University of Leuven, choreography at the School for New Dance Development
(SNDO) in Amsterdam, and spent a year in Berlin completing the Dance Intensive training at
Tanzfabrik. Since 2014, her research has focused on hardcore techno music and dance styles. Her
work takes various forms, including dance, performance, installation, and techno meditations. She
also works as a dramaturg and performer for performance and visual artists in Brussels, Berlin,
and Amsterdam.
Arsène Etaba
TBC
