{"id":5769,"date":"2024-12-02T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:27:59","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/2024\/12\/02\/9\/","title":{"rendered":"NIEUW WERK &#8211; THE EXECUTION OF MATA HARI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_50961\"  width=\"474\" height=\"266\"  data-origwidth=\"474\" data-origheight=\"266\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CiS9kD1R__0?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&controls=1&disablekb=0&color=red&cc_lang_pref=&rel=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\n<div><b>Creation 25\/26 \u2014 <i>THE EXECUTION OF MATA HARI<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><strong>TRY OUT SERIES 2025<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><strong>30-31 October, 1 of &nbsp;November 8pm \/ 2nd of November 5pm &#8211; <\/strong><strong>SALON RADICAL KORTRIJK<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><strong>8-9 of November 8pm &#8211; KADOC LEUVEN<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><strong>15 of November 8pm<\/strong><strong> &#8211; CC DE VERVERIJ RONSE<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>CREATION FOR THE STAGE 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>2\/13 of February &#8211; RESIDENCY in TROUBLEYN, ANTWERPEN<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this new dance-theatre creation, choreographer P\u00e9 Vermeersch pays tribute to the iconic Mata Hari, portraying her as a founding mother of the performing arts, to whom contemporary artists owe much. As one of the first dancers to play with identity and to present her body as a powerful and mysterious medium of expression\u2014freely incorporating Asian dances amid the wave of Orientalism\u2014Mata Hari forged a legend equally shaped by the tragedy of her senseless death. Her execution is one that has survived <i>brilliantly<\/i> through the years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although P\u00e9 Vermeersch is not primarily interested in representing Mata Hari\u2019s life, she introduces key facts at the beginning of the work, allowing the audience not only to contextualize but also to sense the tragic dimensions of this iconic performing artist\u2019s life. P\u00e9 draws both on autobiographical elements and on the rebellious qualities of Mata Hari\u2019s performances. She ultimately moves beyond narrative and historical vocabulary, developing her own dance language and offering a perception of dance as an experiential, abstract, and poetic journey. Like Mata Hari, she consciously incorporates principles of Eastern dance traditions in a well-studied way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>The Execution of Mata Hari<\/i> becomes the starting point of the work\u2014an endlessly repeating trajectory that never truly reaches an end, yet unfolds within the poetry of sentient bodies. In <i>The Execution of Mata Hari<\/i>, P\u00e9 seeks once again<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>to create a performance that emerges as an erotic organism, where the body becomes a powerful gesture of resistance and restoration. With her tragic death, Mata Hari may have been sacrificed on the altar of fear and desire\u2014an unfortunately urgent and contemporary issue within our societies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a unique scenography, Italian dancer Angela Babuin embodies Mata Hari, flanked by P\u00e9 Vermeersch, who sings and dances her soul. A long balance beam functions both as a metaphor for the timeline leading toward Mata Hari\u2019s futile execution and as a fragile, limiting, and challenging space for movement. The relationship between costume and nudity is a central element of the work, developed in collaboration with costume designer Anita Evenepoel. The presence of the man is addressed not in a dominant way, but through a soft, ongoing male gaze projected onto a large screen and through readings by French actor Marc Lesage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The original soundtrack is composed by George De Decker, using guitar riffs by American singer-songwriter Alissa Cardone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div>\n<div><strong>STAGE VERSION<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>IN SITU VERSION<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Concept, voice, dance, lyrics:&nbsp;<\/strong>P\u00e9 Vermeersch with and for Angela Babuin<\/div>\n<div><strong> Performers:<\/strong> P\u00e9 Vermeersch \/ Angela Babuin<\/div>\n<div><strong>Music:<\/strong> George De Decker \/ Alissa Cardone<\/div>\n<div><strong>Costumes:<\/strong> Anita Evenepoel<\/div>\n<div><strong>Gaze and off voice \/ textes:<\/strong> Marc Lesage<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creation 25\/26 \u2014 THE EXECUTION OF MATA HARI &nbsp; TRY OUT SERIES 2025 30-31 October, 1 of &nbsp;November 8pm \/ 2nd of November 5pm &#8211; SALON RADICAL KORTRIJK 8-9 of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/2024\/12\/02\/9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Lees verder <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NIEUW WERK &#8211; THE EXECUTION OF MATA HARI<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salon-radical","tag-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6226,"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions\/6226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pevermeersch.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}