MEDIATHEK

http://www.wolffvzw.be/index.php?page=over. Wolff is a Belgian theatre company led by Thomas Ryckewaert. It was founded in 2007 by Ryckewaert and Daphné Verhelst, two former students of the Antwerp Conservatory (B). Since 2010, Verhelst works under her own name, while Ryckewaert continues the artistic direction of Wolff. Regular artistic partners are composer Tim Vets and scenographer Erki De Vries. The company has immediately been noticed because of its unique theatrical language, which has been described as poetical, radical, visual and ritual. The first production, TRAUM (2007), was a creation based on the writings of Primo Levi. Then followed the solo Statie (2008), the performance State of the Wolff (2008) and the installations Breath (2008) and Terrarium (2009). In the Darwin year 2009, Wolff presented the Darwin Trilogy, a triptych of science, installation and theatre. This last part, Homo sapiens, was a wordless stage experience on the intersection between dance, installation and theatre. The latest creation is Portrait (2012), a solo for a woman, a theatrical portrait of the human condition. In his recent works, Ryckewaert focuses on the unusual in the usual, the uncanny aspects of our everyday experiences. In his latest piece Portrait, Ryckewaert explores the dramatic potential of everyday actions. We follow a woman alone, at home. She gets out of bed, makes coffee, takes a shower. Beneath this layer of seemingly trivial actions we discover a completely different world: the personal realm of dreams, desire, fear and sensory impulses that escape the logic of everyday action.