SV Opening Doors / Esmé Bos & Bart Voet

Music theater with Opening Doors vzw & HETGEVOLG & CC Leopoldsburg in co-production with Het Laatste Bedrijf Opening Doors is an inclusive theater group that has been working since 2008 with people with a physical and/or intellectual disability. The group has about thirty performers from day centers in Leopoldsburg and Lummen, who have consciously chosen theater as daytime activity for more than fifteen years. Under the artistic guidance of Stefan Perceval, Opening Doors has grown into an experienced acting group with performances at home and abroad, sold-out halls in Leopoldsburg and a permanent place within the inclusive arts landscape. For SILENT VOICES, the players together with Esmé Bos and Bart Voet go in search of sound, voice and musicality. With acoustic instruments and self-discovered sounds, a unique theatrical sound world is created.. SILENT VOICES is a performance about being heard. About their voice, their movements, their strength and their stories; about how they literally and figuratively stand or hang in the world, or sit and how they move through that world: singing, muttering, shouting, dancing, shuffling, running, trembling. They go in search of everyone's voice. Toward the frightened voice, the sharp voice, the soft and warm voice. Toward sounds that make you happy and giving words to them. This creates a layered, poetic and moving music theater performance that makes what often remains unheard audible. CREDITS Music: Esmé Bos and Bart Voet Dramaturgie and final direction: Stefan Perceval and Marit Stocker Muzikant: Kris Auwers Begeleiding players: Anny Camps, Katrien Vaes, Sara Plessers and colleagues This production is realized with the support of the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgische Federale Overheid and Gallop Tax Shelter and with the support of the Vlaamse Overheid. With the support of the Flemish government.