Wavelength - Haider Al Timimi and Lucius Romeo-Fromm - Antigone

The heat is on. Lucius and Haider are dancing a conversation. They don’t yet know whether it will end in a duet or a duel. Clashing viewpoints, misunderstandings, sensitivities and frustrations lie in wait. They take up the fight with the weapons they have: their words and the language of dance. They listen, shout and whisper in a tense pas-de-deux. Their moderator: a synthesiser that amplifies, drowns out or harmonises their voices. One ting is for sure: neither of them is going anywhere until they’ve had a serious conversation. Until they’ve heard and felt that they’re on the same wavelength. Because it’s fucking necessary. Because it’s fucking necessary today. Wavelength is the theatrical adaptation of a real conversation between Haider Al Timimi and Lucius Romeo-Fromm about our polarised world. One ended up in Belgium from Iraq, the other from the United States. They shared their concerns about the world: about echo chambers, cancel culture, our place in the cosmos, and worldviews that are drifting so far apart that coexistence seems impossible. From there, they set out, through dance, in search of a possible answer. \"The whole interplay of dissonant rhythms that come together and drift apart again is masterfully supported by Dimitri Andreas`s music and Niels Vanherpe`s sound design. Fluctuating tones burst out into sirens, helicopters, or unsettling, almost nauseating background noise.\"- Elie Agniel, Etcetera \"That is why you must see this play: the tension, the resentment, the despair, but also the rapprochement and reconciliation are not merely expressed in words here – of which there are plenty – but are also embodied on stage. You can see how polarisation and hatred sink their ugly claws into people’s flesh. ... Read more at https://theateraanzee.be/programma/wavelength