Miet Warlop (°1978) is a Belgian visual artist born in Torhout. She lives and works between Ghent and Brussels. Miet Warlop holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts from KASK, Ghent.

ONE SONG

With 'ONE SONG', Miet Warlop created the fourth part in the NTGent series 'Histoire(s) du Théâtre'. This performance premiered at the prestigious Avignon Festival in the summer of 2022.

A group of performers enters the arena for a mesmerizing ritual about farewell, life and death, hope and resurrection. Together they go through extremes: through sung text, images and objects, oxygen and sweat, they evoke our condition humaine. Again and again, someone stands up to push their boundaries. They defy time and give expression to a deep human need: the moment when we can transcend our thinking body.

Through the metaphor of a live competition/concert, including a commentator and a cheerleader, Miet Warlop invites us to form a community and lift each other up, as in a celebration. The temporary thus becomes the universal, and the personal becomes something of the collective. That is the subtext of ONE SONG: how one song can give meaning to a whole society. Unity in diversity.

Visit the official Miet Warlop website here or buy tickets to ONE SONG here.