HOW DESIRE DRIVES US

The concert Daphnis et Chloé weaves together three stories about desire, with music by Van Parys, Boulanger, and Ravel. Yet each story is different: told from other perspectives, shaped by different forms of desire, and carried by different voices. Brussels Philharmonic invited slam poet and Brussels city poet Lisette Ma Neza to rediscover these stories through her own lens. How does she weave the works together? How does she write a new layer onto the music? And which words does she add to reveal hidden worlds?

With music, word, and image, this concert invites us to reflect on what sparks desire and sets it in motion. The emotional force of the music by Annelies Van Parys, Nadia Boulanger, and Maurice Ravel is given an added dimension through the words of Lisette Ma Neza. For each work she writes a prologue, entering into a live dialogue with Pitcho (Brussels rapper, producer, and actor). During the music, her words and phrases come alive through the visual translation of motion designer Ychaï Gassenbauer.

Step into the story of Daphnis et Chloé: where music, spoken word, and visual poetry merge, leaving space for the audience to imagine their own perspectives and desires.