detheatermaker

to our friendly and critical audience,
all our neighbors, lovers and programmers
you are now all our very honored guests
welcome to our house
come over for a night of surprises, performances and beats (party)

On November 9, detheatermaker will host a house party at c o r s o. All new makers will fill corso’s rooms with performances, music, improvisations, new text material, work in progress and party.
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Timetable TBA

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Aya Sabi lives in Flanders and studies Arabistics and Islamology at KU Leuven. She is a columnist for De Morgen and in 2017 published the collection of stories Verkruimeld land, published by Atlas Contact.
In 2020, she was voted one of the literary talents of the year by NRC Handelsblad. In 2022, her debut novel Half leven was published by Das Mag. With Half leven she won the PrixFintro Publieksprijs 2023 and was shortlisted for the Confituur Boekhandelsprijs 2023, the Hebban Debuutprijs 2023 and the Opzij Literatuurprijs 2023. In 2023, she published the novella July, part of a series published by Das Mag.

In April 2024, Aya Sabi won an Ultima for Emerging Talent and in May 2024, the 2024 Young Feather. Babs Gons, laureate of the 2024 Golden Feather, chose Aya Sabi because she is “an important and much-needed voice both within the arts and in the social debate.

Jessica Boyeleba Balehen also known as Calya J., is an Antwerp-based music artist. She writes, plays a number of instruments and produces her own music. In early 2020, she released her first EP called “Blueprint. This EP contains a mix of mystical beats/soundscapes and soul/rap vocals. She is especially inspired by Jill Scott, Rapsody and BLK ODYSSY.In 2022 she released her single “Ride On,” this track was released in collaboration with spoken word artist, Tumba. This track describes the frightening but also the euphoric feeling of change and the beginning of a new chapter. In the same year, she recorded the song “Can’t Block My Shine” with international artists in Atlanta. With her own band and in collaboration, she has already conquered a number of stages in Belgium such as: Trix, AB, Copacobana, Sphinx, Zomer Van Antwerpen, DeSingel, DeCentrale, Zomerfabriek, Beursschouwburg, Het Bos, De Studio, Arenberg, De Vooruit, Zinnema, Botanique. In addition, she has also performed on a few Dutch stages: De doelen, Worm and de Bosuil. Since early 2023 she has been working on a new musical show called “PURP.S.”. In collaboration with Het Bos she has also recently launched a new platform called “The Artist Report” where she gives emerging talent like herself a place to talk about paving their way as a professional music artist.

Marthe Koning is collaborating with interdisciplinary performance maker Gerben Vaillant for her new creation.They explore the human desire to coincide through an endless succession of failed duets.Marthe on Gerben: ‘I find recognition in the poetry and at the same time vitality of his work in which elaborate details can be recognizable, sad and witty. And I invite him because of his cinematic power that complements my analogue style.We bring together different fascinations in a performance concert; the red echo caves of the oracle masses in Malta, the tangible sensuality of Kinke Kooi’s drawings and the magical-realist performances of Aldous Harding.

Noa Pylyser graduated in 2019 from the Leuven School of Drama, where she was trained as a performer and theater maker.
She now lives and works in Zutphen (NL) as an all-round theater maker, and is committed to creating performances that are both funny and socially relevant.She also tries to show the person behind the player.Theater with people for people.
Last year she directed Digi-monologues in theater Het Bolwerck. In this performance, six generations shared their experiences with the digital world, which gave an interesting look at how technology affects us all in different ways.
She also directed Raar Haar, an 8+ performance for Fabuleus, in collaboration with DTM, which is currently in reprise and touring Belgium and the Netherlands. With this performance, she manages to touch both children and adults through a playful yet profound approach.

Amelia Malfait Lakhtara is a Brussels-based playwright.
After some ramblings in history, Arabism and philosophy, she graduated with FA FA FACADE from RITCS in 2021 as a theater maker and joined TransfoCollect.
Malfait Lakhtara works with, and is part of, the collectives Caddy For Palestine and Collectif Faire-Part.
She is fascinated by the Abject and the Shadow Realm, the negative of a waking reality, the underbelly of existence where Funghi, Mushrooms, Slime and Algae thrive. Averse to conventions, she bricoles worlds like junkyards, populated by creatures that dismantle the differences between humans, animals and things.
Colette Goossens sometimes dreams about herself, but in that dream she is different, more complete. She can be anything.The boundaries of her body blur.
She transforms, she grows large, normless, amorphous, crumbles, melts and her body parts shift and and and and. Her thinking dislocates and her body disrupts.

Colette Goossens sometimes dreams about herself, but in the dream she is different, more complete.
She can be anything.
The boundaries of her body blur. She transforms, she becomes large, normless, amorphous, crumbles, melts and her body parts shift and and and and. Her thinking dislocates and her body disrupts. Colette is searching for her full self-portrait and would like to share it with you.

Missawi is an Antwerp-based DJ whose (musical) roots cannot be pinned down, from Arabic to Afro-Caribbean influences.
He can be seen regularly at De Roma.He played at the Ghent parties, Bruzz, Ancien Belgique… With New Year, he has also become a fixture in the surf city of Taghazout.

Runa Robbroeckx secretly wants to be Kate Bush. So she created Ronnie: Ronnie S. is a multitalented singer songwriter and producer. Live synths – love letters in autotune – desire – hangovers – a sample of her mother’s renaissance folk band – a sample of Kate Bush – a sample of a way-too-expensive perfume – a sample of you?

Egon Schoelynck is a Sunday child and theater maker with a fascination for space.
His work is political and finds itself in black boxes, on paving stones and in collective collaborations.
Egon was Montignard in ’21, explored with NOK how collectives work and is a guest lecturer at LUCA School of Arts.

Sophie Anna Veelenturf is from Amsterdam and moved to Ghent in 2019 to study Drama at KASK. Besides her work in theater, Sophie Anna is an avid singer, which she does, among other things, as one of the actors in Funeral by Ontroerend Goed. She graduated as a theater maker and performer from the Master of Drama in the summer of 2024 with the documentary-theater performance-meets-standup Linkse Gaatjes.