About this event
“For those who lose their heads…” (Daisy Lafarge, Love bug) Zooming in on a moment of speechlessness - a moment when language slips into crisis - DUST proposes an imaginary world inhabited by two characters: “Hmm” and “Huh”, who are constantly shapeshifting. Rubbing against language, and being rubbed away by it, they drift off into a space of intimacy and confusion, daring the edges of the self. Layering choreography and text, DUST explores transformation and multiplicity of self, with loss and desire as its driving forces. Here the performance departs from the question: What does it mean to move, or to be moved, outside of oneself? about Urtė Groblytė and Judith Dhondt are a performer-maker duo based in Brussels who met at P. A. R. T. S. during their master’s studies (STUDIOS), resulting in two collaborative master projects: A LOVELY CONSTRUCTION SITE and DUST. Their artistic practice results into performances and publications, starting from a reading practice with a strong interest in erotics, body horror, the abject, ecology, feminist/queer sci-fi... – works in which the bodily, physical experience is always intensely palpable in the language. In the studio, they begin from a love for fiction: creating “fantastic” worlds in which beings can transform, move in and out of each other, and where text can be a spirit, a ghostly lover. Methodically, they are interested in pushing things together that don’t seem to belong at first, a collage of the eclectic. Together they took part in the Shake your Skills program (with BUDA and detheatermaker) and worked on a publication in collaboration with Arno Huygens during their residency in Kintai Arts (LT). DUST had its official premiere at the Almost Summer Festival, BUDA, in June 2026. https://www.instagram.com/terrrpsichore/ https://www.instagram.com/judithdhondt — performance, text & creation Urtė Groblytė & Judith Dhondt sound Lulu Muñoz & Giulia Rae scenography Sibran Sampers light design Caroline Mathieu costume design Gonne Vanspauwen graphic design Arno Huygens dramaturgy Liza Baliasnaja inside eye Ching Shu Huang outside eye Carolina Mendonça outside eye/text advice Chloe Chignell playing coach Marieke Schraepen movement coach Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez production Emma Steurs & NOON vzw co-produced by detheatermaker, KAAP, BUDA kunstencentrum residency support Het Bos, CAMPO, P. A. R. T. S., KAAP, BUDA kunstencentrum financially supported by the Flemish Government, Lithuanian Council For Culture special thanks to STUDIOS MA program, Steven de Belder, Stefa Govaart, Wannes Vanspauwen, Milan Van Bortel & everyone who passed by, thought with and supported the work
