One Song

In this dernière of One Song, originally created for the Histoire(s) du Théâtre series - in which directors take on the challenge of creating a work in which present, past and future meet in surprising ways - a group of performers storm the arena one more time for an enchanting ritual about farewell, life and death, hope and rebirth.Using the metaphor of a live match, including commentator and cheerleader, Miet Warlop invites us to form a community and transcend beyond ourselves as in a celebration. The temporary thus becomes the universal and the personal becomes a collective something. That is the subtext of 'One Song': how one song can give meaning to an entire society. Unity in diversity.   Together, the performers take it to extremes and with sung text, images and objects, oxygen and sweat, they evoke our condition humaine. Time and again, someone stands up to push a boundary. They defy time and express a deep human need, that moment when we can transcend our thinking body.   • Miet Warlop studied three-dimensional art at KASK in Ghent. In her work, she strings together images into stunning tableaux vivants. She has been on the Kaaitheater programme with several performances, including 'Springville' (2010), 'Ghost Writer and the Broken Hand Break' (2019, 2022) and 'One Song' (2022), which, after CC Strombeek, we are now reprising at Théâtre National.