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MA Festival Bruges’ artistic director, Jan Van Den Borre, aims to bring innovation to the world of early music by fostering a dialogue between today’s musicians and today’s audience.

“Ethereal Realms” is a music performance by Marie Delprat, with concept and direction by Aida Gabriels, and scenography by :mentalKLINIK.

Following its première at Dampfzentrale Bern, then displayed at Gare du Nord Basel, and O. Festival Rotterdam, where it was well-received, it now goes to MA Festival Bruges on August 10, 2024.

Ethereal Realms – All Fiction is Metaphor is a solo for electronic musician Marie Delprat within a performative installation inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s feminist novel The Left Hand of Darkness. Within a contrasting sound- and landscape, between baroque and electronics, we reflect on the complexities of identity and connection. Le Guin claims that all fiction is metaphorical. In our fiction, the lines of sex, becoming, belonging, and world-making are not simply this, that, or neither; they are all something not yet imagined by humanity.

https://mafestival.be/en/program/ethereal-realms