© Maarten Vanden Abeele

Diptych: The missing door and The lost room 2020

In Diptych: The missing door and The lost room, several characters are evolving in spaces from which they cannot escape. They set out to seek an ideal, they left with a dream and with hope. Now, they keep wandering throughout a mysterious and macabre labyrinth in which they are lost. The characters live between reality and what’s imagined, guided by natural forces that lead them to an uncertain destiny. Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier create a disturbing, dark and enclosed world – typical in the work of Peeping Tom, while at the same time putting a unique and extreme language of movement and performance at the centre of the pieces.

Each part of the diptych has its own unique setting and evokes a film set. The missing door is set in a room or hallway filled with doors that won’t open. The action in The lost room happens in a cabin on a ship, focusing on the interior world of the characters. The scenic changes between the piece are carried out in plain sight and become a part of the performance, as if it were a live film editing.

In this new creation, Peeping Tom is reimagining the two short pieces and adapting them from the originals created between 2013 and 2015 by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier with Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1).

Tour Dates

July 2020
19BarcelonaGrec Festival de Barcelona
20BarcelonaGrec Festival de Barcelona
August 2020
29KalamataKalamata Dance Festival
30KalamataKalamata Dance Festival
October 2020
24BernDampfzentrale Bern (Cancelled)
25BernDampfzentrale Bern (Cancelled)
January 2021
06ParisOpéra de Paris (Postponed)
07ParisOpéra de Paris (Postponed)
08ParisOpéra de Paris (Postponed)
09ParisOpéra de Paris (Postponed)
10ParisOpéra de Paris (Postponed)
March 2021
04Vélizy-VillacoublayL'Onde (Postponed)
05Vélizy-VillacoublayL'Onde (Postponed)
April 2021
09BelgradeBelgrade Dance Festival
10BelgradeBelgrade Dance Festival
June 2021
18GroningenSPOT/Stadsschouwburg (Postponed)
1819:00PermDiaghilev Festival
1919:00PermDiaghilev Festival
September 2021
06RoveretoOriente Occidente Festival
07RoveretoOriente Occidente Festival
October 2021
23BernDampfzentrale Bern
24BernDampfzentrale Bern
November 2021
19Vélizy-VillacoublayL'Onde
20Vélizy-VillacoublayL'Onde
December 2021
17NaplesTeatro Bellini
18NaplesTeatro Bellini
19NaplesTeatro Bellini
April 2022
05St PetersburgDance Open (Cancelled)
May 2022
25ArnhemSchouwburg
June 2022
01UtrechtStadsschouwburg
08GöteborgGöteborg Dance and Theatre Festival
September 2022
21DilbeekWestrand
29ZagrebCroatian National Theatre
30ZagrebCroatian National Theatre
October 2022
04BratislavaBratislava in Movement
28MulhouseLa Filature, Scène Nationale
29MulhouseLa Filature, Scène Nationale
January 2023
11BadenKurtheater
12BadenKurtheater
March 2023
11San Sebastian – DonostiaDferia
12San Sebastian – DonostiaDferia
15PaviaTeatro Fraschini
18VicenzaTeatro Communale
22AnconaMarche Teatro
23AnconaMarche Teatro
April 2023
15TilburgSchouwburg Tilburg
May 2023
05MilanTriennale Milano
06MilanTriennale Milano
09CremonaTeatro Ponchielli
June 2023
21BratislavaBratislava in Movement
22BratislavaBratislava in Movement
27PragueTanec Praha
July 2023
01SibiuSibiu International Theatre Festival
02SibiuSibiu International Theatre Festival
August 2023
31TarragonaFITT - Festival Internacional de Teatre de Tarragona
September 2023
01TarragonaFITT - Festival Internacional de Teatre de Tarragona
29ValladolidLaboratorio de las Artes de Valladolid
30ValladolidLaboratorio de las Artes de Valladolid
October 2023
28GironaFestival Temporada Alta
November 2023
07TournaiLa Maison de la Culture de Tournai
10NamurThéâtre de Namur
24GroningenSPOT/Stadsschouwburg
March 2024
22AucklandKiri Te Kanawa Theatre
23AucklandKiri Te Kanawa Theatre
24AucklandKiri Te Kanawa Theatre
June 2024
12KuopioKuopio Dance Festival
13KuopioKuopio Dance Festival

Concept and direction
Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier

Performance
Konan Dayot, Fons Dhossche, Lauren Langlois, Panos Malactos, Alejandro Moya, Fanny Sage, Eliana Stragapede, Wan-Lun Yu

Artistic assistance
Thomas Michaux

Sound Dramaturgy
Raphaëlle Latini

Sound composition and arrangements
Raphaëlle Latini, Ismaël Colombani, Annalena Fröhlich, Louis-Clément Da Costa, Eurudike De Beul

Light design
Tom Visser

Set design
Gabriela Carrizo, Justine Bougerol

Costume design
Seoljin Kim, Yi-chun Liu, Louis-Clément Da Costa

Confection costumes
Sara van Meer, Lulu Tikovsky, Wu Bingyan (intern)

Technical coordination
Giuliana Rienzi, Pjotr Eijckenboom (creation)

Technicians
Bram Geldhof/Ilias Johri (lights), Tim Thielemans/Jonas Castelijns (sound)

Stage management
Thomas Dobruszkes (stage manager), Clement Michaux (stage assistant)

Production intern
Lisa Gunstone, Robin Appels

Based upon Adrift, created with the dancers of NDT I: Chloe Albaret, Lydia Bustinduy, César Faria Fernandes, Fernando Hernando Magadan/Spencer Dickhaus, Anna Hermann, Anne Jung, Marne Van Opstal, Roger van der Poel, Meng-ke Wu, Ema Yuasa/Rena Narumi, with artistic assistance by Louis-Clément Da Costa, Seoljin Kim and Yi-Chun Liu.

Production
Peeping Tom

Co-production
Opéra National de Paris, Opéra de Lille, Tanz Köln, Göteborg Dance and Theatre Festival, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, deSingel Antwerp, GREC Festival de Barcelona, Festival Aperto/Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), Torinodanza Festival/Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale (Turin), Dampfzentrale Bern, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival (Rovereto)

Diptych: The missing door and The lost room was created with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government.

Press

"Can dance be heart-poundingly exciting? At Peeping Tom, yes." **** (4 stars)
Het Nieuwsblad  15/06/2021
"Peeping Tom follows in the footsteps of theater dance or dance theater with a dramatic conception rich in suggestions and hints. [...] A real universe traversed by the magic of movement and the unexpected."
Ara.cat  21/07/2020
"[The piece], in which there is no lack of black humor, seems to pay tribute to David Lynch with its atmosphere and with its enigmatic and seductive scenes."
El Periodico  21/07/2020
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Awards and nominations

2023 Best International Theatre Production – Premis de la Crítica (ES)
2023 Nomination as ‘Best New Dance Production’ – Olivier Awards (UK)
2022 Jovan Cirilov Award – Belgrade Dance Festival (RS)
2022 Prize for Best Contemporary Production of 2021 in Italy – Danza & Danza Magazine (IT)