Anatomy of desire

Step into a sensory total experience: an anatomical theater where darkness, body, and cosmos merge into a poetic, culinary, disruptive ritual beyond all boundaries. Met Anatomie du Désir creates Boris Gibé a mysterious ritual that eludes every genre, that both enchants and disrupts — a sensory journey in which you not only watch, but feel, taste, wonder, and get lost. Anatomie du Désir is not a performance, but an experience. Everything begins in total darkness, with a culinary prologue that puts your senses on edge. What follows is a fascinating choreography of bodies, atoms, and forces that suck you from the intimate to the cosmic. From beauty to horror. From drive to wonder. Inspired by forgotten times when fairground artists posed as scientists and the body became a spectacle, this performance balances on the thin line between heaven and hell. In the heart of all this, a Venus or Frankenstein's monster is born - a body that is simultaneously human and extraterrestrial. The artistic signature of Les Choses de Rien, the company that Gibé founded in 2004, is unmistakable: an innovative, daring mix of circus, aerial acrobatics, and technology, in which the body is pushed to the limit — raw, poetic, and uncompromising. As a spectator you can only slide along with your mouth open through the wonder. Anatomie du Désir invites you to look with new eyes. To feel what cannot be named. To surrender to an experience that will haunt you for a long time. Freakshow, metamorphosis, artistic big bang. Enchanting and disruptive. Not a performance, but an experience. 'There is circus in halls, on the street, in a tent. And then there is Boris Gibé, who creates worlds beyond the boundaries of your consciousness.' - De Standaard Ook on Thu 22.10 | 8 p.m. Also on Fri 23.10 | 8 p.m.