musical excerpts
Gardenia
2010/2022
A music theatre performance created in 2010, performed globally between 2010 and 2012, revisited the stage in 2022.
Thomas Wallner made a touching documentary about some cast members of Gardenia: "Before the last curtain falls". Available on NETFLIX.
d i r e c t o r s
Alain Platel, Frank Van Laecke
b a s e d o n a c o n c e p t o f
Vanessa Van Durme
m u s i c
Steven Prengels
c r e a t e d a n d p e r f o r m e d b y
Vanessa Van Durme, Griet Debacker, Hendrik Lebon, Andrea De Laet (†), Richard ‘Tootsie’ Dierick, Danilo Povolo, Gerrit Becker, Dirk Van Vaerenbergh, Rudy Suwyns
l i g h t d e s i g n
Kurt Lefevre
s o u n d d e s i g n
Sam Serruys
s e t d e s i g n
Paul Gallis
c o s t u m e d e s i g n
Marie ‘costume’ Lauwers
c o s t u m e a d v i c e
Yan Tax
c o s t u m e s r e a l i s e d b y
atelier Anette De Wilde, atelier NTGent led by An De Mol, Mieke Van der Cruyssen, Sul Hee Mys, Helena Verheyen
p r o d u c t i o n
les ballets C de la B
c o p r o d u c t i o n
NTGent, La rose des vents (Villeneuve d’Ascq), TorinoDanza, Biennale de la danse de Lyon, Tanz im August (Berlin), Théâtre National de Chaillot (Paris), Brighton festival, Centro Cultural Vila Flor Guimarães, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Festival d’Avignon
© p h o t o g r a p h y
Luk Monsaert