Vanilla explores the relationship of pleasure, sexual desire and food to question normativity in sexual practices. Through the intimate and vulnerable sharing of personal and fictional sex stories, the performance offers a warm and soft exercise of imagination. On stage, the careful preparation and the consumption of sauces is used to highlight the care that is at stake in safe and sound sexual encounters, however radical they might be. Vanilla gently invites the audience to open their sexual fantasy box and to put together their own recipe.
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CREDITS
Concept & performer: Sophie Guisset
Performer: Enis Turan
Performer & podium design: Cee Füllemann
Dramaturgy & artistic advisor: Lisa Vereertbrugghen
Light design: Emilio Cordero Checa
Sound design: Emilio Cordero Checa
Text advisor: Melanie Jame Wolf
Artistic Advisor: Fanny Brouyaux
Producer: Lara Joy Bues
With the support of: the Berliner Senate Department for Culture and Europe (DE), Vlaamse Overheid (BE)
Co-productie: WpZimmer (BE), Kunstencentrum Viernulvier (BE)
Photo credit: Mayra Wallraff
Supported by: Charleroi Danse (Residency contribution), Buda Kortrijk (BE), Kampnagel Hamburg
Research supported by: Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR
Special thanks to: Helga Baert, Matthieu Goeury, Marieke De Munck, Uta Lambertz
PLAY DATES
11/05/2023, wpZimmer, Antwerp (BE)
12/05/2023, wpZimmer, Antwerp (BE)
21/06/2023, Sophiensaele (premiere), Berlin (DE)
22/06/2023, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
23/06/2023, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
24/06/2023, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
25/06/2023, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
25/01/2024, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
26/01/2024, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
24/10/2024, Viernulvier, Ghent (BE)
25/10/2024, Viernulvier, Ghent (BE)
With the support of the Flemish Government
