Muziektheater Transparant

Sunday May 31, 2026
KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, DE
www.transparant.be

Chapters of Celebration - Music & Dance of Folies d’Espagne
dir. Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe & Wouter Deltour

Chapters of Celebration

direction- Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
musical direction & composition- Wouter Deltour
electronics Jesse Kanda, Wouter Deltour
violin- Sara DeCorso & Blanca Prieto
cello/gamba- Alex Baker
theorbo/guitar- Asako Ueda
voice/percussion- Marc Vilajuana
bass- Léa Kadian
choreography- Michele Rizzo, Cherish Menzo, Lasseindra Ninja, Iker Karrera, Jeremy Nedd, Toni Jodar
dance- Mabel Olea, Guillem Jiménez, Alphonse Eklou Uwantege, Emiel Vandenberghe, Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Toni Jodar, Patric Eduardo
dramaturgy- Persis Bekkering
scenography & light design- Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe

Chapters of Celebration is a full-evening dance marathon, a collective ‘museum of revelry’. The musical leitmotif is La Folia (‘madness’) or Folies d’Espagne, a 15th-century Iberian musical theme that reverberates like a heartbeat through the history of classical music, thanks to arrangements by composers such as Bach, Vivaldi, and Rachmaninov.