GUMMI (12+) / Ballet Dommage & BRONKS

The year 3400. The sun no longer rises. The grass has disappeared. The globe is at rest and will reawaken in an unknown number of light-years. In this intermediate zone, the gummy is the living creature on earth. The gummies live in peace and harmony. They laugh, toil, amuse themselves, crawl close together, looking for warmth doze off and occasionally trot around recklessly. They are sometimes grim but after devouring a tasty bite, they let the dispute lie again. They whine and cry in the depths, tell in soft murmurs and cackles about something that once was and will yet come. Ballet Dommage and Suze Milius choose a utopian, alienating world in GUMMI. A universe in which conflict is not part of the plot and in which nothing is at stake. No catharsis or total ruin. The spectator sees the small scenes and daily rituals of peaceful creatures in a no-man's-land where everything seems as it is. After the farcical nightmare Tavern Michelle (2022) and the theatricalized family party Fratssen (2024), Ballet Dommage (the theater collective of Katrien Valckenaers and Maxim Storms) creates the alienating GUMMI at BRONKS, in collaboration with director Suze Milius. Together they find each other in a physical and absurd theatrical language that reveals and abstracts the small sides of human behavior. CREDITS CONCEPT Ballet Dommage & Suze Milius DIRECTION Suze Milius ACTING Katrien Valckenaers, Maxim Storms, Kazanga Jonathan Linga, Lobke Leirens, Lisa Verbelen, Emma Browaeys (stage), Anton Rys (stage), Lentle Tolkatchev (stage) SCENOGRAPHY Ballet Dommage & Suze Milius in collaboration with Tom de With COSTUME Rachid Laachir MUSIC Linde Carrijn LIGHT DESIGN Thomas Clause EXECUTION DECOR Simon Callens PRODUCTION BRONKS CO-PRODUCTION Perpodium WITH THE SUPPORT OF Tax Shelter of the Belgische Federale Overheid via BNPPFFF