Still a bird - Free entry

Duration: 90 min

Language: nonverbal

Suitability: -

Group: Rebecca Lenaerts

Country: Belgium

Performers: Rebecca Lenaerts

Team: Rebecca Lenaerts (concept and performance), Bird Community (feather cloak creation), Sonia Anicéto (feather cloak creation), Tijen Lawton (movement and choreographic support), HETLAB Hasselt & Platform 0090 (co-production), Shana Boogers & Mario Leko (photos), Flanders State of the Art, Sabam for Culture & PUSH+ (Creative Europe) (supporters)

Description: Birdwoman is born, lives, moves, plays and dances until she disappears again into another world. We are silent witnesses of an organism in constant transformation between object, animal and human. The performance invites us to expand our vision and to travel in a world that reminds us that the human body, nature and the dream world are inseparable.

In 2015 Rebecca Lenaerts began to collect bird feathers found on the ground, walking around the streets. Collecting feathers turned into a ritual: first the washing, then the drying and treating with cedar, then the storage. In 2018, with painstaking dedication, she starts sewing the feathers one by one on a blanket creating a feather cloak. After nine months, Birdwoman was born. In mythology, she is the guardian between the human and the animal world.