Tina

TINA questions the need for change for all of us.

TINA is a musical tragedy over the theme of repetitions in our lives, in history and on stage.

Transdisciplinary piece bringing together eight artists: 5 circassians, a soul singer and a jazz duo.

 

Isn’t the real change to be able to renew oneself constantly, to “jump” out of the habit?

 

How can we renew ourselves again when the passing of time pushes us to “function”?

TINA relies on original poetic writing as well as jazz music – the art of repetition and deconstruction.

 

This spectacle is a tragedy, the tragedy of our world populated by murderers.

But the murderers are not always the ones we believe.

The murderers, contrary to what one might think, are those who remain in line, who follow the usual course of the world, who repeat and start their lives again as they are.

What do they murder?

The possible.

 

Everything that could begin, break, change…

 

In the 90’s Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan impose capitalism as the only way: There Is No Alternative (T.I.N.A.)!

 

Thirty years later we can only deplore the failure of this globalist policy and claim the need for change.

 

TINA opens and closes with this magnificent song by Nina Simone, Everything Must Change, declined throughout the show by three musicians who shift reality, while 5 circus performers strive to transform the possible with a few pieces of wood illustrating our destroyed forests or an iron cube suggesting our mental prisons.

 

“Carrying the voice” remains more than ever at the heart of T1J’s concerns, with music and bodies as vehicles.

 

TINA is a Rock Poem

 

Support and co-productions:

 

Theater op de Markt-Dommelhof van Neerpelt (B),
Latitude 50 (B),
Le Delta – Namur (B),
le Centre Culturel de Marche-en-Famenne (B),
le Centre Culturel de Ciney (B),
Le Pôle à la Seyne-sur-Mer,
Le Maillon,
Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène Européenne,
la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (service des arts du cirque, forains et de la rue),
la Région Wallonne/ST’Art Invest,
Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI)

CAST

  • Singer : Tamara Geerts
  • Musicians : Sal La Rocca, Laurent Stelleman
  • Circassians : Marieke Thijssen, César Mispelon , Joaquin Bravo, Julius Bitterling, Wilko Schütz
  • Actors: Benjamin Vanesch and Eugène Masset
  • Magie nouvelle : Ralf Nonn
  • Scenographer: Johan Daenen
  • Sound engineer: Jean-François Lejeune
  • Lighting designer and lighting management : Fred Vannes and Emily Brassier
  • Author and director : Patrick Masset
  • Costume designer: Gaëlle Marras
  • Photographer : Sébastien Roberty