concept, direction Thomas Hauert
research, creation Anna Dujardin, Thomas Hauert, Sarah Ludi, Anthony Quintard, Oskar Stalpaert, Samantha van Wissen, Mat Voorter
performer Anna Dujardin, Anthony Quintard, Oskar Stalpaert (Platform K), Thomas Hauert, Sarah Ludi, Samantha van Wissen, Mat Voorter (Zoo)
costum Bernhard Willhelm
scenography Chevalier-Masson
lights Bert Van Dijck
suond Guitar Bart Celis, If Sound Matters
production ZOO, Thomas Hauert, Platform-K
co - production Charleroi danse, Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Comédie de Genève, VIERNULVIER, STUK, Théâtre Les Tanneurs and DC&J Création
Studio Charleroi danse, Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, VIERNULVIER, P.A.R.T.S., Rosas, Tictac Art Center
supported by Ein Kulturengagement des Lotterie-Fonds des Kantons Solothurn, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la danse, Pro-Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour les arts, Stad Gent, Tax Shelter Belgian-Federal Government and Inver Tax Shelter, Vlaamse Overheid

supported by Prohelvetia e di Wallonie Bruxelles Theatre Danse

After working as a dancer with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, David Zambrano, and Pierre Droulers, Thomas Hauert, originally from Switzerland, founded his company ZOO in Brussels in 1998. Since then, the company has created more than 20 works, performed all over the world. The project Where Is Everybody? was born from the meeting between ZOO and Platform-K in Ghent, which works with artists with disabilities. This meeting allowed for the sharing of movement techniques and vocabularies, fostering spontaneous and complex interactions between dancers, space, and music. From this came the desire to deepen a creative, collaborative, and interactive approach to choreography, working with a mixed group of six dancers and developing a choreographic work for the stage. The music, selected for its emotional resonance with the artists, became a driving force: it inspired movements, structured the space, and supported the dramaturgy like a film soundtrack. It is a work that does not merely intend to give visibility to bodies often excluded from the stage, but allows them to transform our conception of creation, otherness, and presence.