4+4 Days in Motion / Lisbeth Gruwez / Voetvolk: It's going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend

The highlight of this year’s festival, and one of the most moving dance solos of the recent season.
Famous Flemish dancer Lisbeth Gruwez transforms a sermon by an ultraconservative American televangelist into a gesticular dance. Her body anxiously juggles words, spells them out, cries out, shakes, horrifies – and as a result fascinates. Her hypnotizing dance creation lays bare the militant messianic rhetoric of religious and political speech, calls attention to the dangerous abuse of words, and tests the limits of appellative theater.

“Although the performance does not look at a particularly cheerful topic, the way in which it has been transformed into dance form is so fascinating that you leave the theater with your head spinning and eyes gleaming in wonder. Fantastic!” wrote one of many enthusiastic critics, the reviewer Els Van Steenberghe from Belgium’s Knack magazine.

“An exciting solo that surprises us in its absolute originality. It is like nothing that the professional or general public has ever seen,” adds critique.