Music-Theatre project with the Brecht Elser koor: Melancholie - Mélancolie aan de/aux 5 blokken
Melancholie - Mélancolie aan de/aux 5 blokken is a music- theatre project commissioned by the
Brecht Eisler Koor
The Brussels Brecht-Eisler Choir (voices, performance) , Christine Leboutte and Farbod Fathinejadfard (soloists), Celine Gaza (slam) | text Sybille Cornet | composition Kaat De Windt | direction Vital Schraenen | conductor Lieve Franssen | sound editing Alejandro Elias | dramaturgy & research Raf Custers | in cooperation with Kaaitheater, De Markten | with support from the city of Brussels, VGC, Flanders
Melancholie-Mélancolie aan de /aux 5 blokken (why don't they revolt ?) is a music theatre project initiated by Raf Custers and the Brussels Brecht-Eisler Choir directed by Lieve Fransen. This project is about the city. About poverty, about fragile people, about how little leeway they have in the city. We follow the residents of a large ensemble of social housing in the centre of Brussels, a neighbourhood of unhealthy housing that will soon be demolished and rebuilt. The “5 blokken” of the Papenvest.