Tender Men

Tender Men is a dance performance about touch and male sensitivity, about human contact and fearlessness, about its beauty and its poetry, as well as chaos and misunderstandings. Tender Men confuses and fascinates, antagonises and triggers.

Choreographer Koen De Preter creates a universe around masculinity and its sensitivities. He asks himself how men would interact with each other in a world without homophobia. The dancers – from Mali, Taiwan, Estonia and Belgium – are a source of inspiration full of counter colours. Their unique personalities contrast and complement one another and combine the tough with the sensual. Tender Men is simultaneously moving, filmic, abstract, spherical – and recognisable. Everything and everyone can coexist.

More info

choreography and concept Koen De Preter dance and choreography Benoît Nieto Duran, Johhan Rosenberg, Po-Nien Wang and Souleymane Sanogo light design Fudetani Ryoya costume design Atelier Marie Dries technical support Eva Dermul project management Lenneke Rasschaert distribution Vincent Company coproduction C-TAKT, Dans Brabant and Perpodium residencies KVS Brussels, Cultuurcentrum ccBe Berchem, de Warande Turnhout, Dommelhof Neerpelt, De Nieuwe Vorst Tilburg, De Grote Post Ostend and Kunstencentrum STUK Leuven with support of Flanders, state of the arts and the city of Antwerp