de berg (the mountain)
© Karolina Maruszak

de berg (the mountain)

A perfectly ordinary comforting ritual

Laika

4LJ - 6LJ

Prices

kleuter & lager €7.00
kleuter & lager - vriendenschool €5.00

A show about goodbyes and stretching time, about loss and longing, about how things were and what remains. Two brothers engage in an intimate dialogue through dance, music and visual art. A back-and-forth between the one who leaves and the one who stays behind.

Between melancholy and anger, deathly silence and a wild din, between bitter and sweet, lightweight and pitch-black …
A story with few words that invites us to pause for a moment in a world where there are scarcely any rituals left for mourning.

The title de berg comes from the Japanese legend of Mount Nara, to which people were taken by their loved ones to spend their final hours.

de berg is yet another wonderful example of how art, precisely because it defies our conventional approach to death, can be all the more comforting.
pzazz

selection of the ambassadors

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Our youngest ambassador team consists of about twenty children and young people between the ages of five and twenty. They attend premieres and festivals, sit in on rehearsals, give their unfiltered opinions on performances, engage in conversations with creators, and meet monthly to discuss their experiences at hetpaleis.

They’re also budding programmers. Together, they watch a number of performances. This season, after thorough research, *De Berg* emerged as “the ambassadors’ choice.”

From the ambassadors’ jury report: “There’s a lot to discover about joy and loss. The older you are, the more you can understand.” — Yuna (12 years old)

prepare for your class visit

In order to minimise disruption to the performances, hetpaleis requests that you switch off your mobile phone before the start of the performance. Eating, snacking, drinking and photography are not permitted.

Responding to the performance is of course allowed, and even encouraged!

View the theatre codes here.
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tourdates

  1. hetpaleis
    • school performance
  2. hetpaleis
    • school performance

credits

concept and direction: Michai Geyzen
performance: Patrick Vervueren & Stanislas Pira Bruynseels
choreography: Lisi Estaras
muziek en compositie: Ephraïm Cielen
transcriptie muziekcompositie: Michaël Denis
violen: Linde Carrijn & Jeroen Vernimmen
cello: Merel Van Hemelryck
opname en mix: Fritz Sundermann
artwork en kostuum: Nikè Moens
scenography: Stef Stessel
dramaturgy: Mieke Versyp
lighting design: Thomas Stevens
sound design en projecties: Tom Van Den Brande
technical and production coordination: Pieter Smet
production management: Evelynn Beeckmans
theatre technician: Rik Van Gysegem
ontwerp affiche: Wies Hermans
illustratie affiche: Jana Roos
production: Laika
in co-production with: Perpodium
with the support of: de Vlaamse Gemeenschap en de taxsheltermaatregel van de Belgische Federale Overheid en Sabam for Culture