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
about

Sammy Van den Heuvel (°1985) is a freelance scenographer based in Antwerp, Belgium. After completing his architecture studies, he quickly found his way to the performing arts. He studied scenography with Katleen Vinck and later found a mentor in scenographer Annette Kurz. Starting out as an assistant to other scenographers, he soon began creating his own work. Collaborations with Giacomo Veronesi, Jorinde Keesmaat, Tiago Rodrigues and Johan Simons, among others, have taken him to venues across Europe. A long-standing collaboration connects him to the Dutch dance company Panama Pictures, led by choreographer Pia Meuthen, who creates her work in the context of his spaces.

His work is the visual condensation of a many-layered process of conversations, frictions and explorations.