EVENTS AND NEWS 2018
In 2018 Marijs Boulogne is continuing to work on several crocheted bodies, representing different nervous systems, for a new performance in 2019.
She is still collaborating with Ik Zeg Adieu (IZA), a Brussels polyphonic vocal ensemble of musicians and performers, where she directed the musical comedy Midsummer Daydream.
NEWS
In September 2017, Marijs Boulogne joined the wrestling school LMC (Club Lady Man Catch), the eldest wrestling school for Ladies in Belgium, since 1978. Her coach Pietro Badiali was wrestling over 40 years as Pythonman and Burd Jenkins, and her trainer is Jossy Steffy, wrestling over 40 years, as La veuve Noir (Black Widow).
Grounds for Possible Music (Edited by Julia Eckhardt) - NEW publication on music in relation to gender, voice, language, and identity. With contributions by AGF aka Antye Greie, Andrea Parkins, Aurélie Lierman, Bonnie Jones, Cathy Lane, Electric Indigo aka Susanne Kirchmayr, Felicity Ford, Heimo Lattner, Jaume Ferrete Vázquez, Judith Laub, Julia Eckhardt, Marc Matter, Marijs Boulogne, Marion Wasserbauer, Myriam Van Imschoot, pali meursault, Peter Westenberg, Richard Scott, Romy Rüegger, Susan McClary, Suzanne Thorpe.
PAST EVENTS
30 June 2018; 2.30 and 7.30 pm - Orfeo & Majnun, community project, Parade Love, Loss & Longing (5 performances of 15 minutes) - Place de La Monnaie, Brussels
Marijs Boulogne is creating a cross-over between opera and wrestling in collaboration with WAC (Wrestling Alliance Company); LMC (Lady Man Catch); BYWS (Brussels Young Wrestling Style); CWA (Cobra Wrestling Association).
Orfeus: Reno Raiden; Euridice: Julie Skrbe-Gilliotta; Majnun: Sheikh Kamel; Layla: Marijs Boulogne; Aristaios: Antonio Gilliotta; The Snake: Kurt Clauw; The children of Orpheus and Eurydice: Lorna Gilliotta and Alundra Gilliotta; Demons: Benjamin Sainte-Marie, Kevin Rahino, Corentin, Torro, Black Widow, Pythonman.
22 March 2018 at 19.30: Life4Brussels, commemorating victims of the Brussels bombing attack in 2016 - Marijs sang with Moumy Opéra choir La main sur le coeur - Théâtre Lumen, Ixelles, Brussels
3 March 2018 at 8pm: IZA, Cabaret PolyFolies - Cité Culture, Allée du Rubis, Laken, Brussels
