- Belgium
Pieter and Jakob are brothers. Both are artists, but they operate within different spheres. Pieter is a dancer, choreographer and artist in residence at CAMPO. Jakob is a qualified speech therapist, but also a singer and musician, performing with The Germans among others.
This show was born of intensive mutual observation, the brothers studying one another as if looking into a mirror, each soaking up the other’s art. The dancer discovered his voice, the singer got to know his body. This process sometimes pushes them into fairly extreme territory (Jakob has already broken one microphone by shouting into it too much), and sometimes into calmer waters. The brothers also share a certain sense of deadpan humour, a humour they’re only too willing to share.
Their performances are exercises in modesty and economy of expression, startlingly simple and often hilarious as the brothers go to great lengths to avoid a confrontation on the stage. But who benefits most from this truce? The brother who tries his best to steal the show with his honeyed tones, or the brother who doesn’t mind becoming part of the furniture? Nothing is quite as it seems, little details take on great proportions, positions are constantly shifting and a simple song might threaten to bring the whole edifice tumbling down. Are these two characters really brothers, or are they simply lost souls clinging onto an illusion of fraternity?
