MOVEDBYMATTER & COLLECTIF MALUNÉS

BITBYBIT combines a classic circus technique (the Iron Jaw) with an evocative tale about two inseparable brothers (Simon and Vincent Bruyninckx of Collectif Malunés). They engage in a dangerous game of attraction and repulsion at the limit of their physical ability and only centimetres away from the audience. Their duel, as sensitive as it is spectacular, resonates with a captivating soundtrack by Dijf Sanders.

With devilish pleasure, the acclaimed Circus ensemble Collectif Malunés knocks down the walls between various disciplines. This is something the collective has in common with performance artist Kasper Vandenberghe’s MOVEDBYMATTER. For BITBYBIT.

This show will take place in the big top that will be located in Margarida Xirgu Square during the days of the Circ d’Ara Mateix cycle.

their first joint production, Kasper and the Bruyninckx brothers find themselves moreover in the balancing act between connection and resilience on the one hand and the inevitable fall on the other, the loss experience that lurks around every corner. You can take that quite literally: under Kasper’s richly imaginative direction, the brothers experiment with a particular circus technique where they are completely dependent on each other for their own safety. It is the culmination of a year of artistic research and physical training, but for the brothers it is also the culmination of a lifetime of sharing love and suffering. They grew up together and later became circus artists together. They have spent more time together than many couples of the same age. They then let go of each other little by little, which led them to experience a great loss. BITBYBIT is the Ultimate attempt to get closer. This is the first time the duo of brothers is performing together in the ring. The specific circus technique in question involves each brother clamping a leather bit between their jaws. A steel cable stretches between one mouthpiece and the other, like an umbilical cord between two young pups who love to chew on things.

Concept Simon Bruyninckx, Vincent Bruyninckx, Kasper Vandenberghe / Performance Simon Bruyninckx, Vincent Bruyninckx / Direction Kasper Vandenberghe / Dramaturgy Matthias Velle / Intern director Leon Rogissart / Music Dijf Sanders / Costume Johanna Trudzinski / Regard exterieur Esse Vanderbruggen / Light design Olivier Duris, Benjamin Eugène / Sound Anthony Caruana, Sofia Zaïdi / Administration Eugenie Fraigneau, Ellia Larès / Difussion Emma Ketels (je buro)
Production MOVEDBYMATTER & Collectif Malunés / Coproduction CIRKLABO/30CC, C – TAKT, Miramiro, KAAP, PERPLX, Perpodium, Theater op de Markt – Dommelhof, workspacebrussels / Residencies workspacebrussels, Miramiro, CAMPO, PERPLX, Theater op de Markt – Dommelhof / With the support De Vlaamse overheid & De Stad Gent en de taxshelter van de Belgische federale overheid