LOUD / Farida Amadou, Louis Vanhaverbeke

Name: LOUD / Farida Amadou, Louis Vanhaverbeke — Soil Biographies
Start: 2026-10-30T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-30T21:10:00+01:00
Location: De Vooruit

Soil Biographies

VIERNULVIER & LOUD

Wed 28.10

20:00 - 21:10

De Vooruit, Gent

Domzaal

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Thu 29.10

20:00 - 21:10

De Vooruit, Gent

Domzaal

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Fri 30.10

20:00 - 21:10

De Vooruit, Gent

Domzaal

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What hidden lives lie buried in the ground?

'Soil Biographies' is a sensory sound performance in which two versatile artists, Louis Vanhaverbeke and Farida Amadou, engage in a musical dialogue with soil. Together, they create a ritual performance about the subconscious, growth and hidden life. About the ground beneath our feet, and the voices rising from it.

Following a period of mental turmoil, theatre maker Louis Vanhaverbeke found solace in farming. Contact with soil became his way of staying literally connected to the world. Farida Amadou, an acclaimed bassist on the international improvisation scene, approaches sound as a physical force. Her practice is rooted in attentive listening and embodied presence, where grounding is not only a connection to the earth but also a way of connecting to oneself and to others through sound.

Together, they build a playground in which the soil becomes both set, instrument and co-performer. They unearth hidden feelings, lost objects, discomfort, comfort and everything that usually remains beneath the surface. Between beauty and filth, a breathing and spellbinding landscape of sound and transformation emerges. The soil becomes a source of sound, whilst sounds make the soil vibrate.

'Soil Biographies' is not a conventional narrative, but a musical love triangle between Farida, Louis and the earth. A performance that invites the audience to listen, to dig for what lies hidden within our bodies, and to ground ourselves together.

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Farida Amadou

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Louis Vanhaverbeke

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Credits

Concept, music and performance: Farida Amadou, Louis Vanhaverbeke - Concept and dramaturgy: Dries Douibi - Preliminary artistic research i.c.w.: Melissa Mabesoone - Sound design and engineering: Arthur De Vuyst - Lighting design and engineering: Remco Wuyts - Execution scenography: Simon Van den Abeele - Production: LOUD muziektheater - Co-production: DE SINGEL (Antwerp), kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (Ghent), Theaterfestival Boulevard ('s-Hertogenbosch), Kaaitheater (Brussels), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Perpodium - Residencies: TalentLAB - Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg, Kunstenwerkplaats - With the support of: the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government via BNPPFFF