R. B. Jérôme Bel, tg STAN and Estelle Zhong Mengual - Restarting the world

A philosopher investigates the great mystery of life with a child and an adult. Returning to the origin of the world, the trio sets out together to reinvent it. A performance for younger, young, older, and old. What does it mean to live? To unravel this mystery, a philosopher, a child, and an adult undertake a journey. The stage is empty, and yet the philosopher and the child constantly see mysterious animals and undiscovered landscapes. For them, the world is inhabited at every moment by other life forms than ours: wolves, bacteria, olive trees, polar bears, ... Their curiosity is too great not to follow in their footsteps, but for the adult who follows them, the stage is truly empty, and animals have long since ceased to populate his mind and his nights. What kind of game is this? Do they really mean this? Hesitantly, he accepts the invitation to enter the world of this woman and this child and to loosen up his mind (and ours). Together, they discover a world that has not been destroyed by the belief that we humans on this earth are the only actors in a decor of things. This performance questions our place among everything that lives and asks how we can rethink this world in a playful way that can seduce both a child and an adult. Jolente and Jérôme work for ‘Recommencer ce monde’ together with the French art historian and author Estelle Zhong Mengual. With ‘De Wereld Herbeginnen’, a version in Dutch now follows. On stage, we discover, besides Jolente Robby Cleiren, a girl of eleven. by Jérôme Bel, Jolente De Keersmaeker and Estelle Zhong based on the original work of Baptiste Morizot with a fragment from ‘The Eye of the Crocodile’ by Val Plumwood (Wildproject Editions) with Jolente De Keersmaeker, Robby Cleiren and a girl of eleven