CARTA: Ferenc Balcaen - Scapegoat

Ferenc Balcaen makes his debut on stage at DE SINGEL with SCAPEGOAT.

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He has only just graduated as a director from the RITCS, but Ferenc Balcaen is already one of the most promising creators in the Brussels and Flemish performing arts landscape. With SCAPEGOAT, he makes his debut on stage at DE SINGEL. Balcaen takes you to an environment in the inferno, where time stands still and there is no distinction between day and night. Figures with melted faces wander there, so distorted that they seem unidentifiable. Soon their deformation is seen as a deformity and a process of dehumanisation sets in. They have nothing left to lose, and so these scapegoats indulge in their wildest lusts and desires without brakes. SCAPEGOAT is a dance of desperation driven by violence and eroticism. Inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy and the sonata Franz Liszt created in response to that canonical epic, Balcaen creates an alternative world where your understanding and compassion are challenged to the fullest.