Ce que femme veut…! (What woman wants…!)

This performance is inspired by the erotic, sensual text fragments of the Greek poet Sappho.

Call Ayre with soprano Lieselot De Wilde creates a new book full of lust and love developments in which not one woman, but many lady witnesses about love, sensuality and eroticism. They come from different time periods, different cultures and are of different ages. For this project Bel Ayre cooperates with a number of homegrown writers, including Gaea Schoeters, Annemarie Peeters and Maud Vanhauwaert.

Hind Eljadid accompanies them live on stage with her striking and committed slam poetry.

Bel Ayre

Bel Ayre means “beautiful song”. The ensemble is a collaboration between Lieselot De Wilde and jazz guitarist Peter Verhelst. The two musicians are curious about the music that comes from a combination of their different musical worlds. The ensemble writes its own songs and looks for new interpretations of the song repertoire. Their musical language is a mix of virtuosity, expressiveness, techniques and colors from classical music, early music, French chanson, Jewish music, Arabic music, jazz and avant-garde.

Bel Ayre believes in pure and honest expressiveness. They take the audience in tow with an experience that is vocal, instrumental, textual and interpretative exciting and versatile. The musicians add a lot of improvisation, which brings the music to life in a very adventurous way. Their compositions are the result of a fascination for the sensuality that arises when different musical worlds come together in a simple song.

Hind Eljadid
Hind Eljadid is a 25-year-old word artist from Antwerp. She gives workshops slam poetry / word art / performance, performs with her texts and developed her own platform ZonderWolk. Her literary debut “Kruimeldief” will not be long in coming. In 2018 Eljadid toured Belgium and the Netherlands with the Poetry Bus. In 2018, she received a nomination for the BILL Award. She also won a Van Dale SPOKEN award with her performative poetry.

Hind’s work is full of social criticism and awareness. As an artist, she finds it important to come out with a strong message and to make people think. She also proclaims her unsalted opinion on stage. Its mission is to visualize social issues and to raise voices from socially precarious positions.

“As a performer, I think I have the responsibility to give things to the community. The public can do what they want with it. That is their choice. But I want to give something that matters. In my texts I want to shock people, hold them up to a mirror, make them aware. That is really necessary. ” – Hind Eljadid.

Crew:
Lieselot De Wilde: singing, lyrics, composition
Peter Verhelst: guitar, composition
Stefan Bracaval: flute
Jean-Philippe Poncin: clarinet
Frederik Heirman: trombone
Berlinde Deman: tuba, serpent
Hind Eljadid: word artist

You can find the full festival program HERE!