Diptych/Triptych
Peeping Tom is a Belgian dance theatre company, founded by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier.
Awards and nominations
2023 -Best International Theatre Production – Premis de la Crítica (ES)
2023 -Nomination for ‘Best New Dance Production’ – Olivier Awards (UK)
2022 -Jovan Cirilov Award – Belgrade Dance Festival (RS)
2022 -Prize for Best Contemporary Production of 2021 in Italy – Danza & Danza Magazine (IT)
In Triptych: The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor,several characters are evolving in spaces from which they cannot escape. They set out to seek an ideal, they left with a dream and with hope. Now, they keep wandering throughout a mysterious and macabre labyrinth in which they are lost. The characters live between reality and what’s imagined, guided by natural forces that lead them to an uncertain destiny. Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier create a disturbing, dark and enclosed world – typical in the work of Peeping Tom, while at the same time putting a unique and extreme language of movement and performance at the centre of the pieces.
Each part of the trilogy has its own unique setting and evokes a film set. The missing door is set in a room or hallway filled with doors that won’t open. The action in The lost room happens in a cabin on a ship, focusing on the interior world of the characters. The hidden floor takes place in the public setting of an abandoned restaurant, where natural forces have taken over. The scenic changes between the piece are carried out in plain sight and become a part of the performance, as if it were a live film editing.
In this new creation, Peeping Tom is reimagining the three short pieces and adapting them from the originals created by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier between 2013 and 2017 with Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1).
Concept and direction
Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier
Performance
Konan Dayot, Fons Dhossche, Lauren Langlois, Panos Malactos / Akira Yoshida,
Alejandro Moya, Fanny Sage, Eliana Stragapede, Wan-Lun Yu
Artistic assistance
Thomas Michaux
Sound Dramaturgy
Raphaëlle Latini
Sound composition and arrangements
Raphaëlle Latini, Ismaël Colombani, Annalena Fröhlich, Louis-Clément Da Costa, Eurudike De Beul
Light design
Tom Visser
Set design
Gabriela Carrizo, Justine Bougerol
Costume design
Seoljin Kim, Yi-chun Liu, Louis-Clément Da Costa
Confection costumes
Sara van Meer, Lulu Tikovsky, Wu Bingyan (intern)
Technical coordination
Giuliana Rienzi, Pjotr Eijckenboom (creation),
Technical engineers
Bram Geldhof, Ilias Johri (lights), Tim Thielemans/Jonas Castelijns (sound)
Stage management Thomas Dobruszkes (stage manager), Clement Michaux, Kato Stevens (stage assistants)
Production interns
Lisa Gunstone, Robin Appels
Based upon Adrift, created with the dancers of NDT I: Chloe Albaret, Lydia Bustinduy, César Faria Fernandes, Fernando Hernando Magadan/Spencer Dickhaus, Anna Hermann, Anne Jung, Marne Van Opstal, Roger van der Poel, Meng-ke Wu, Ema Yuasa/Rena Narumi, with artistic assistance by Louis-Clément Da Costa, Seoljin Kim and Yi-Chun Liu
Production
Peeping Tom
Co-production
Opéra National de Paris, Opéra de Lille, Tanz Köln, Göteborg Dance and Theatre Festival, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, deSingel Antwerp, GREC Festival de Barcelona, Festival Aperto/Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), Torinodanza Festival/Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale (Turin), Dampfzentrale Bern, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival (Rovereto)
Triptych: The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor was created with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government.