Miet Warlop / Irene Wool - Delirum

"After the immense success of her previous performance ‘ONE SONG’, Belgian artist Miet Warlop, artist in residence at NTGent, now creates an ode to imagination with ‘Delirium’, a wave of wonder and pleasure.

“Long waves beat diagonally against the beach, bulge hunchbacked with cords of muscle, raise quivering ridges that tip over at their very greenest. Crests stretched tight, already welted white, wrap around a cavity of air crushed by the clear mass like a secret made and then broken.”

- Uwe Jonhson

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Describing Miet's work reveals secrets that words can hardly capture. Wonder and pleasure drag you into a wave. It seems as if that round air cavity takes on the contours of Warlop's skull where within the imagination infects a whole group around her, the imagination becomes collective and thus touches our imagination. But how do you interpret the capriciousness of that imagination on a stage? What is the deeper meaning of a wave rising and then crashing?

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Delirium is the successor to ONE SONG - HDT IV, the NTGent production that, after its premiere at Festival d'Avignon in 2022, embarked on a world tour that is still ongoing, garnering praise as far away as The New York Times.