Endless Summer Camp

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With Endless Summer Camp, Sophie Guisset continues her exploration of spaces of freedom and unexpected alliances. Drawing on her personal experience within the Scout movement, she adopts its framework and structure—only to subvert its codes.

Welcome to a utopian summer camp for adults, where performers form a temporary troupe and collectively explore desire, transgression, and joy. As in the woods of our youth, they are invited to unleash their imagination through the invention, construction, and organization of a playground-like space, and to become one with the group.

Here, vice, perversion, and self-transcendence are not taboos but sources of pleasure and pride. The Scout spirit—its ingenuity in the face of the unexpected, its attentiveness to the environment around us—becomes the driving force behind an intimate and collective exploration of desire and sexuality, approached with vulnerability, humor, and sensitivity.

Endless Summer Camp invites us to rethink our relationship to desire and, together, imagine new relational scenarios—under the sun.

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Concept & direction Sophie Guisset
Performance, Texts and Artistic Collaboration
Lieselot Siddiki, Camilla Strandhagen, Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzales, Pauline Payen
Dramaturgy and Artistic Collaboration Lisa Vereertbrugghen
Text Development Support Melanie Jame Wolf
Set and Costume Design Bastien Poncelet
Choreographic Advisor Daniel Linehan
Lighting Design Emilio Cordero Checa
Sound Design lou drago
Production Hiatus

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Coproduction
La Balsamine (Brussels, BE)
Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk, BE)
Kunstencentrum VierNulVier (Ghent, BE)
Le Phénix Scène Nationale (Valenciennes, FR)
Charleroi danse – Choreographic Centre of Wallonia-Brussels (BE)
Maison de la Culture d’Amiens (FR)

Supported within the framework of the INTERREG VI France–Wallonia–Flanders Network – EMERGE

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With the support of
the Flemish Community, Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI).