Beep Street

Jonas Baeke & Jef Hellemans

Premiere

Wed 4 Feb and Thu 5 Feb

4 Feb

20:30

CAMPO nieuwpoort

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5 Feb

20:30

CAMPO nieuwpoort

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A cartoonish performance about our relationship with technology

In a world of beeps, loops and automated processes, the body increasingly resembles a machine. Beep Street is a movement performance in which performers dance and play to the rhythm of scanners, fitness equipment and digital voice commands.

With a cast of performers from dance, physical theatre and performance art, director Jonas Baeke and actor Jef Hellemans create a poetic collision between body and system. Sound and movement intertwine like a glitching machine, in a performance that balances between liberation and oppression.

Following the performance Pinokkio, Jonas Baeke and Jef Hellemans are joining forces once again. With an interdisciplinary cast, including Mooni Van Tichel and Rachid Laachir, and music by multi-instrumentalist Isolde Van den Bulcke (Tristanne), they create a wordless performance in which performers move like glitching algorithms, trapped in a world of control and efficiency.

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In Ghent

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Jonas Baeke (Ghent, 1999) is an actor and director. He graduated from KASK School of Arts Ghent in 2022 with the performance Pinokkio, created with Jef Hellemans, which was shown at Theater aan Zee, among other venues. Pinokkio also received the acting award from De Acteursgilde. Together with Mats Vandroogenbroeck, Jonas created Bambiraptor at Kopergietery, which was selected for Het Theaterfestival 2022. In May 2024, their new performance Infinity Forever premiered, also selected for Het Theaterfestival. Jonas won the TAZ and Sabam creation grant, which he used to create the family performance Mr. Beam in October 2023, together with Lucas Van Der Vegt. In his performances, he interweaves physical forms of acting, sound and scenography into layered universes. Through theatre, he searches for metaphors for everyday life under capitalist alienation, overwhelming technological acceleration and ecological catastrophe.

Jef Hellemans (1999) graduated in 2022 from KASK drama. In 2017, he performed in Odysseus, een zwerver komt thuis, a production by KVS & NTGent. Since then, he has appeared in productions by DESCHONECOMPANIE, De Nwe Tijd, hetpaleis, DE MAAN, and Miet Warlop. For his performance in Pinokkio (created with Jonas Baeke), he received the Actors Guild’s acting award (-35). He will soon play the lead role in the film adaptation of Tom Lanoye’s Kartonnen Dozen and in Foley Man, a feature film by Frank Van Passel.

Credits

concept & direction Jonas Baeke performers Jef Hellemans, Mooni Van Tichel, Rachid Laachir & Fleur Van Bergen sound Isolde Van den Bulcke & Jonas Baeke set design & lighting design Geeraard Respeel costume design Robin Verslegers dramaturgy Bosse Provoost production manager Kelly Vermeiren technique Lene Maesen assistant director Luka Mariën production vzw Daisy with the support of The Flemish Government, Perpodium & De Studio residencies CAMPO, BUDA, De Grote Post, VIERNULVIER & C o r s o with thanks to Mats Vandroogenbroeck, Floris Baeke & Hilde D’haeyere