A Feast for One / Das Ross

A FEAST FOR ONE

A hundred apples are scattered across the street. Imagine them slowly rolling toward the audience. The performer enters the stage and begins to move. The children wonder: Is she Snow White, Eve, or a princess? The adults ask themselves a different question: What will happen to all these apples? Will they be eaten, shared, crushed, or wasted?

A Feast for One explores the social, emotional, and political contradictions surrounding the theme of food. Biting, chewing, offering, and refusing, the solo navigates cycles of desire and restraint, care, and abundance. – “Crunch.” – *A Feast for One* understands food as far more than mere sustenance. It represents care, pleasure, shame, exclusion, and power, and raises the question of who is allowed to eat and who remains hungry. The performance reflects on global inequalities in access to food and invites us to grapple with the contradictions we consume every day.

DAS ROSS

Das Ross is a dance solo developed by Mariane Verbecq in 2024. The work takes as its starting point the unrest in France in June 2023, which erupted following the death of Nahel Merzouk as a result of police violence. From there, the perspective broadens to encompass the many forms of oppression that people experience both individually and socially. Exclusion can affect anyone—based on gender, personal beliefs, the way one loves, or one’s lifestyle. In this way, the piece unfolds a universal perspective.

The Ross explores the possibilities of emancipation and awakening. It reveals how the rejection of other perspectives, the rejection of diversity, and the refusal to acknowledge one’s own otherness can pave the way for exclusion and violence. Through the embodiment of a female character, the solo traces the path to self-awareness and self-empowerment—an inner process that enables one to take one’s place in society and stand up for oneself.

A Feast for One
Dance: Aline Lebrun / Choreography: Aline Braun
The Horse
Dance & Choreography: Mariane Verbecq

Following the performances, we will host a post-performance discussion with the audience.