BBBB IT(E)S OF OOTS – A SLAPSTICK OPERA OF GRAMMATICS

Coproduction 2025
Ode de Kort - Reading shoe that is flat 16:9

BBBB IT(E)S OF OOTS is a performance in which a black rubber work boot plays the leading role as a typographic performer and language-producing engine. The boot searches for an absurd in-between space between that which is flat, empty or full and acquires different forms as a result.

How do abstractions acquire animated and lived meaning, only to 'fall flat' again into a sign? How can language gestate itself in movement? And can the fragmentation of that same movement serve as a poetic and humorous language decomposition?

With the boot as the main character, 'episodes' are developed in which this form begins to express itself in a grammar of cutting, repeating, stuttering, falling ...

Concept, creation & performance: Ode de Kort - Performance: Urtė Groblytė - Sound: Inne Eysermans - Voice: Naomi Beeldens - Scenography: Ode de Kort, Thijs Rijkers - Dramaturgy: Charlotte Vanden Eynde - Production: workspacebrussels - Co-production: workspacebrussels, STUK, C-TAKT - Residencies: Extra City, STUK, De Warande, Schouwburg Noord, workspacebrussels

Artist

Residencies

25.08.2025 - 29.08.2025

Kaaistudios

08.04.2024 - 14.04.2024

Kaaistudios

11.10.2023 - 17.10.2023

Kaaistudios

Past events

BBBB IT(E)S OF OOTS – A SLAPSTICK OPERA OF GRAMMATICS

26.04.2025 19:00 - 20:00

Kaaistudios (Brussels)

BBBB IT(E)S OF OOTS – A SLAPSTICK OPERA OF GRAMMATICS

25.09.2025 22:20 - 23:00
26.09.2025 22:20 - 23:00

Kunsthal Extra City (Antwerp)

BBBB IT(E)S OF OOTS – A SLAPSTICK OPERA OF GRAMMATICS

15.11.2025 19:00 - 19:40
15.11.2025 22:00 - 22:40
16.11.2025 15:00 - 15:40

STUK (Leuven)