Ins & outs. A field analysis of the performing arts in Flanders

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Union Suspecte

http://fr.vti.be/en/http/%252Fwww.unionsuspecte.be

Union Suspecte is a young, rebellious, challenging theatre and dance company. It is known for its radical, straight to the point performances like Onze Lieve Vrouw van Vlaanderen, Singhet ende Weset Vro and We People.

De Munt/La Monnaie

http://www.demunt.be/

De Munt is a federal cultural institution. In 1963 De Munt was officially named National Opera. A major turning point in the history of the Royal Monnaie was the appointment in 1981 of Gerard Mortier as general director. During his directorate, not only the building was thoroughly modernized; he also artistically reorganized the Monnaie's choir and symphonic orchestra and employed new and young staff. All this, and Mortier's choice of a more personal and peculiar repertoire, turned the Monnaie into an opera of international stature and renown.

LOD

http://www.lod.be

LOD is a Ghent based production house for opera, musical and other forms of music theatre. It launches creative projects with a pool of artists (composers Kris Defoort, Dick van der Harst, Jan Kuijken, Dominique Pauwels, Daan Janssens and Thomas Smetryns, director Inne Goris, actress-director An De Donder, actor-writer-director Josse De Pauw and philosopher-writer Pieter De Buysser). Together, they produce a wide range of projects in which various artistic genres meet.

Braakland/ZheBilding

http://www.inbreek.be

Braakland/ZheBilding (BZB) explicitly positions itself as a company of makers: a group of theatre makers who follow a collective path that departs from the spectator's aural imagination.Braakland/ZheBilding makes theatre for the ear, choosing the organic combination of spoken text and contemporary alternative music, cross-over between rock, jazz, folk, punk, minimal music and electronics. The company plays with the quality of the voice and with narrative points of view to make literary texts sensual, rhythmical, musical and theatrical.

WALPURGIS

http://www.walpurgis.be

Ever since it was established in 1989, WALPURGIS has specialized in the creation and development of contemporary music theatre in which the singer, both as a creator and as a performer, is the focus of interest. WALPURGIS is also an artistically and culturally diverse environment: multidisciplinary and many-voiced.

Soprano Judith Vindevogel has been the organization's artistic director since 1999. Her company regularly commissions compositions and text material and has its own CD label - WALPURGIS records.