Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

The show has been annulled. If you already bought a ticket you will be contacted by the Vooruit box office. We would like to apogolize for this incovenience.

The PARTS ballet school has supplied us with fresh, promising talent in the guise of Sujata Goel and Tarek Halaby. The duo caused quite a stir at Vooruit during ‘SUM/SOME of the parts’, a show in which PARTS students were given the opportunity to display their talent. That performance, ‘Disco Dancer’, was a witty parody of the 1982 Bollywoodfilm of the same name. ‘Disco Dancer’ is a dance performance that breaks the rules of “serious” art in a funny way. Sujata Goel grew up in an Indian community in the US and quickly discovered Indian dance culture and Bollywood movies, all the while attending classical dance classes. In her work, she constantly combines these two completely different worlds.

‘Nightlife’ continues along the path set out by ‘Disco Dancer’ and further explores the world of film. Apart from Bollywood Goel and Halaby also studied ‘serious’ German directors Sirk and Fassbinder to help them deepen their representation of human behaviour and relationships.

Nightlife shows the relationship between a man and a woman. Their personality is scarred by loneliness in an urban environment controlled by the media. Goel and Halaby give shape to the characters and story-lines with popular dance scenes, capturing the audience in the twilight zone between dream and reality.