Birdwatching 4x4 offers the audience unexpected perspectives of their everyday surroundings,using the urban landscape as an experimental space.
A mobile observation box moves the audience through the city, as four dancers stage interventions amidst passing street life. The box functions as a moving camera, framing the outside world and allowing the viewer to recreate his environment with his own insights.A sensory experience, the spectator is invited to explore his personal relationship with the other, and with the world he is part of.
Birdwatching 4x4 questions our perception of reality in a game of concealing and revealing, observing and being observed.
Concept, choreography Benjamin Vandewalle Original concept scenography Erki De Vries, Benjamin Vandewalle, Pieter Huybrechts Construction Jan Palinckx, Kopspel (BE) Dance Kim Ceysens, Peter De Vuyst, Yentl De Werdt, Benjamin Kahn, Vera Tussing, Albert Quesada, Benjamin Vandewalle Soundtrack Nico Sall Technical coordination Eric Feys Technical Assistance Katrien Geebelen Thanks to Scheld’apen, Aernout Vandewalle, Marnix Rummens, CB Service
Executive production Caravan Production International distribution Fanny Bordier Coproduction Kaaitheater (BE), Vrijstaat O. (BE), Network DÉPARTS, IN SITU-Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof (BE), IN SITU-Københavns Internationale Teater (DK), IN SITU–Terschellings Oerol Festival (NL), IN SITU - Lieux Publics, centre national de création (FR), Les tombées de la nuit (FR) This performance has received a Writing aid and a Creation Aid by the IN SITU network, in the frame of the META project. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission (DGEAC–Culture programme) With the support of the Flemish Authorities, the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region (VGC)
DURATION & AUDIENCE 35 minutes per performance / maximum 4 performances a day / 20 audience members per performance