Be Flat is a circus company that creates location specific performances. All the members of Be Flat are acrobats who play music as well. The explosive combination of live music and movement is more than the sum of the parts! For big performances Be Flat extends their team with musicians and more acrobats. I play and sometimes compose for Be Flat.
LIVING
Since 2022 I am taking part in Be Flat’s newest project “LIVING“. LIVING is a multidisciplinary collective that creates site specific circus shows in spaces that are not made for performances. Spaces like nursing homes, libraries, prisons, second hand markets, bars, etcera. One of the important goals of Be Flat is to bring circus to people who usually don’t go to theaters and to connect people from different layers of society.
See shows for upcoming shows.
With Circus Company Be Flat’s team of “LIVING” we had two days to create this (music) video for the inauguration of Cultuurhuis Herbakker in Eeklo. The video and music have been recorded and edited in the unfinished building of the Cultuurhuis Herbakker, one day before the official inauguration.
Video will be placed here asap!
Video by: Zaur Kourazov, music by: Karen van Schaik – composition, saxophones, glasses, Ward Mortier – bass drum, acrobatics/acting by: Ward Mortier, Thomas Decaesstecker, Gianna Sutterlet, Alonso Gozález Barría, Craic Weston, Gerda Dekempe, Zaur Kourazov, Karen van Schaik
Photos of site specific performance “LIVING” by ©Caro Crevits
Backdrop
In September 2021 we played the show “Backdrop” on the Plein de Cirque festival in Turnhout. I was band leader and invited 3 other musicians. We had one day to create the music for this 45 minute show.
