One Song

Histoire du Theatre(s) IV
Miet Warlop and NTGent
U.S. Premiere

What is your history as a theater maker? At the invitation of the Belgian city theater NTGent, acclaimed Belgian visual artist Miet Warlop formulates an answer as only she can.

Twelve performers enter the arena for a mesmerizing ritual about hope, life, death, and resurrection; it’s also a song contest performed for an audience that’s constantly changing its mind, a cheerleader bursting with enthusiasm, and a sportscaster providing commentary. Praised by The New York Times as one of the “Top European Productions of 2022” during its run at the Avignon Festival, One Song combines a live competition and a concert, inviting us to form a community, lift each other up, and ask how one song can give meaning to a whole society.

Presented in Partnership with NYU Skirball Center for The Performing Arts.

Miet Warlop:

Born in 1978 in Belgium, Miet Warlop received a master’s degree in visual arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent. In addition to her performance work for theatre venues, Miet Warlop has created and presented an ever-growing cycle of visual art performances, interventions and live installations. She has been populating European performance and gallery stages for over twenty years with her absurdly colourful figures, living objects, and spectacles of form and colour. Her reflection about theatre as an artistic form has led to a physical approach where one can find elements reminiscent of her previous plays: the concert as ritual, the effort, the repetition, the objects… Everything in Miet Warlop’s artistic practice is connected, be it implicitly or explicitly. She sees her work as a cycle, just like life.

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