the act of adulting

The piece explores the transition into adulthood, that idea of a moment when one should finally feel like an adult, while in reality still discovering oneself to be a child. Often associated with stability and certainty, adulthood appears here as an unstable space, traversed by doubts, contradictions, and successive reinventions. Landmarks shift; notions of success, happiness, and what it means to be grown up are in constant flux. Growing up becomes less an arrival than a state of continuous transformation.

You don’t become an adult. You perform it, a little better each day.

Directed by: Antonin Rioche / Choreography: Antonin Rioche in collaboration with the performers / Performers: Alberto Terribile, Kenedy Kallas, Ève-Marie Dalcourt, Tom Van de Ven, Lisa Harres / Singer & composer: Lisa Harres / Stylist: Grace Lyell / Light-design: Loes Schakenbos