Miet Warlop / CAMPO: Springville

In Springville we witness the constant metamorphosis of a small universe in which characters, half human, half object, try to function together and alongside one another. By employing an absurd logic and by playing with proportions, these characters move us with the results of their disfunctionality in their poetic game of chaos, expectation and surprise.

Along the way they lose their trusted nature and the environment changes into the scene of a still landscape that’s running wild and unfolds into infinity.

Springville is a performance dominated by the visual. Set design, costumes, props and characters are closely interwoven and merge into one another.
 

Miet Warlop on Springville:
‘From the moment something has found a place in Springville, it is turned upside down or broken. The story not only develops while you watch it; even reality itself is constantly being transformed.’

In Springville, Warlop sets an inventive course through moving tableaux vivants – which characterise her language – combined with Keatonesque slapstick. It delivers subtle theatre that holds up a penetrating and playful magnifying mirror to the world.
Els Van Steenberghe - Warlop s Wonderland, Knack - May 2009

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