Sammy Van den Heuvel — scenography

Each space grows within a specific frame that is formed through conversations; with the director, with the choreographer, with the text, the music, the material, with the dramaturg, with the production team, with the artists and builders in the workshops, with the stage technicians. Ultimately, the built space engages in a conversation with the performers, and, through them, in a conversation with the audience.
Wozzeck
Seraphim
No yogurt for the dead
Tipping point
Angel's bone
Le nozze di Figaro
The man who fell from the sky
A safe space for male bodies
Szenen aus Goethes Faust
The world’s wife
Vanishing point
Die Vorüberlaufenden
The future is not what it used to be
Solitary dialogues
Solitude
Each time we fall a city rises
Quartett
A requiem for lost things
Als niemand me ziet
Totentanz
#truth: ein sokratischer Abend
Ich rufe meine Brüder
3000 Euro
Ich bin wie ihr, ich liebe Äpfel


sammyvandenheuvel@gmail.com

A safe space for male bodies

The possibility of Europe becoming a theater of war has recently become more real than we ever feared — and with it the prospect of being drafted. In this performance we focused on those who would be mobilized in wartime, namely young males fit for military service.

In the spaces of Neue Galerie Graz’s BRUSEUM, we collaborated with a group of men who have been trained in the Austrian military service, the Bundesheer. Creating a “safe space” in precarious times, we invited the audience to take a closer look at the shifting perception of the male, potentially militarized body in the context of an approaching war.

The performance challenged the images of heroism and masculinity associated with the military and explored the incomprehensible contradictions of young male bodies that might be trained, armed, and finally destroyed in the name of peace.


concept and directionGiacomo Veronesi 

scenography and costume designSammy Van den Heuvel

video designAnita Kremm

/Steirischer Herbst 2022