Piñata Cake, creation 2025
An unusual, visual, musical and physical performance inspired by circus, Piñata Cake plays with our expectations and our thirst for astonishment, by diverting the revealing effect used in car shows to unveil a new model using fabric.
At first invisible, the scenography and protagonists gradually reveal themselves in ways that are sometimes intimate, spectacular, or absurd.
Who operates in this theatrical space? Who are the real actors in this hallucinatory landscape? Does it even matter to define them?
Like a dance between the hidden and the revealed, they engage in revealing attempts through entresorts. They converse, build pyramids, sing, and sometimes fall silent, leading the audience into a fantastical and reflective landscape.
In a playful and anarchic manner, the performers on stage explore questions related to our social relationships, our constructions, and what we choose to let appear in society.
In a succession of visual revelations, the performers will be led through spectacular fragments to show us all sorts of things in a surprise effect. This new show will revolve around very marked rhythm changes or caesuras, performed with great freedom of tone so that astonishment is perpetually present. Its dramaturgy should also question our relationship to one-upmanship, change, novelty and consumption.
Piñata Cake will premiere from March 4 till 8, 2025 at Atelier 210 (Brussels, BE). Contact us to receive a presentation.
Previously, Gaël Santisteva directed TALK SHOW (2017) and Garcimore est mort (2021). In July 2023, he co-created Voie, Voix, Vois with Antoine Leroy and Saaber Bachir.
Piñata Cake - A project by Gaël Santisteva (creation 2024-2025)
Creation and performance : Gaël Santisteva, Micha Goldberg, Jonas Chéreau, Vincent Focquet, Maya Dhondt
Artistic advices: Lara Barsacq
Dramaturgical advices : Sara Vanhee
Sound and musical composition: Maya Dhondt
Light design: Emma Laroche
Costumes design: Sofie Durnez
Sound: Fred Miclet
Stage design: Sofie Durnez, Gaël Santisteva
Administration & production: Myriam Chekhemani
Communication & distribution: Quentin Legrand - Rue Branly
Production : Gilbert & Stock
Coproduction : Atelier 210, Charleroi danse - Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Théâtre national Wallonie-Bruxelles, UP - Circus & Performing Arts
Residencies : Charleroi danse, Grand Studio, Kunstenwerkplaats, Studio Thor, Arts Center Buda, Latitude 50 – Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue
With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
