Expiry Date begins where life takes its final breath: in the last hour before we die.
On stage an old man. With hands outstretched he reaches for the memories and the last minutes that are escaping him.
In the mechanical scenery around him, the failing time becomes palpable. A sandglass, an aquarium-tree, bullets and domino bricks mark both the beginning and the end of this abstract summary of a life filled with struggle and beauty.
Expiry Date appears as an entanglement of emotions and movement, blurring the lines between past and present...
And through this semi-archeological retrospective, the despair grows that not a single memory or moment of passion is immune from oblivion.

photo: Sophie Glossin

photo: Sigrid Spinnox
For more information, technical riders, photos etc please go to www.expiry-date.org
Expiry Date was created & is performed by :
Thomas Hoeltzel
(originally created with Luis Sartori Do Vale)
Laura Laboureur
Anna Nilsson
Jef Stevens
Direction: Sara Lemaire, Anna Nilsson
Choreographical advise : Hun-Mok Jung
Light design : Philippe Baste
Stage management : Hugues Girard
Sound technician : Tonin Bruneton
Concept of scenography : Jan Nilsson, Anna Nilsson
Sound and scenography : Raimon Comas Franch
Set construction : realised by l’ATELIER, une formation à la réalisation de décors (devenirs.be - latitude50.be)
Dramaturgical advise : Bauke Lievens
Dramaturgische samenwerking in het kader van het onderzoeksproject Between being and imagining: towards a methodology for artistic research in contemporary circus, gefinancierd door KASK, School of Arts, Gent (BE).
Coproductions:
Humorologie (BE), Theater op de Markt/Dommelhof (BE)
Creation residencies :
Subtopia, (Sweden), Theater op de Markt/Dommelhof (BE), La Balsamine (BE), Circuscentrum (BE), Latitude 50 (BE), Espace Catastrophe, Centre International de Création des Arts du Cirque (BE), VormingsCentrum Destelheide (BE),
CIRKO Center for New Circus (FI)
With the support of :
Vlaamse Overheid (BE), Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (BE), Latitude 50 - pôle arts du cirque et de la rue (BE)