March 26th – 27th, 2025 campo, Ghent
October 7th, 2025 festival actoral, Marseille
November 21st & 23rd, 2025 NEXT Festival, Courtrai
Duration: unknown
The Idea of the Ghost
Music Hole is a performance that explores our spectral relationship to memory, time and reality. Conceived with four physical, musical and/or vocal performers, the performance is inspired by the notion of hauntology (imagined by philosopher Jacques Derrida and later developed by music critic Mark Fisher), which describes, among other things, the accumulation of ghostly traces of the past as we move into the future. Stevens aim is to translate, choreographically and musically, the idea of survival and erasure, embodiment and disappearance, delay and anticipation.
To haunt is somehow to survive, and also to return. Hence Stevens desire to work with vocal recordings, sound samples, visual loops and iterations of movement. Questioning the idea of the ghost. Not in its figurative aspect, but in its metaphorical use. A ghost can be a trace, something perceived, a feeling of unease. Not necessarily visible, but a presence, an atmosphere. A memory that lingers, a mantra that resists.