Sammy Van den Heuvel — scenography

Each space grows within a specific frame that is shaped through dialogue; with the director, with the choreographer, with the text, the music, the materials, 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 dialogue with the performers, and, through them, in a conversation with the audience.


sammyvandenheuvel@gmail.com

/Opera Ballet Vlaanderen 2020
In Galina Ustvolskaya's 1957 “Grand duet for cello and piano”, the cello heaves and throbs under different physical laws. Its own "voice" is always the voice pushed too hard, forced into an extreme position. At the limits of its abilities, it threatens to turn into something else, to exceed its medium for the properties of another. Juxtaposed is the visual landscape: a dancer balancing a charred wooden board, unguarded, vulnerable, introverted, untouchable.

concept, scenography and direction Sammy Van den Heuvel / choreographical advice Femke Gyselinck