Piñata Cake (creation 2025) - Gaël Santisteva

An unusual, visual, musical and physical performance inspired by circus, Piñata Cake plays with our expectations and our thirst for astonishment, by diverting the revealing effect used in car shows to unveil a new model using fabric.

At first invisible, the scenography and protagonists gradually reveal themselves in ways that are sometimes intimate, spectacular, or absurd.

Who operates in this theatrical space? Who are the real actors in this hallucinatory landscape? Does it even matter to define them?

Like a dance between the hidden and the revealed, they engage in revealing attempts through entresorts. They converse, build pyramids, sing, and sometimes fall silent, leading the audience into a fantastical and reflective landscape.

In a playful and anarchic manner, the performers on stage explore questions related to our social relationships, our constructions, and what we choose to let appear in society.

Piñata Cake premiered from 4 till 8 March, 2025 in Atelier 210 (Brussels, BE).

After TALK SHOW (2017), Garcimore est mort (2021) and Voie, Voix, Vois (with Saaber Bachir and Antoine Leroy, 2023), Piñata Cake is Gaël Santisteva’s fourth project.

UPCOMING

  • 03.07.2025 | Festival de la Cité, Lausanne (CH) - Swiss premiere

  • 04.07.2025 | Festival de la Cité, Lausanne (CH)

  • 26.11.2025 | Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles x Charleroi danse, La Raffinerie, Bruxelles (BE)

  • 27.11.2025 | Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles x Charleroi danse, La Raffinerie, Bruxelles (BE)

  • 28.11.2025 | Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles x Charleroi danse, La Raffinerie, Bruxelles (BE)

  • March 2026 | UP Festival, Bruxelles (BE) - in option

PREVIOUS DATES

  • 04.03.2025 | Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE) - PREMIERE

  • 05.03.2025 | Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE)

  • 06.03.2025 | Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE)

  • 07.03.2025 | Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE)

  • 08.03.2025 | Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE)

 

Piñata Cake - A project by Gaël Santisteva (65’, 2025)

Creation and performance: Gaël Santisteva, Micha Goldberg, Jonas Chéreau, Vivi Focquet, Maya Dhondt
Artistic advices: Lara Barsacq
Dramaturgical advices: Sarah Vanhee
Sound and musical composition: Maya Dhondt
Light design: Emma Laroche
Costumes design: Sofie Durnez
Stage design: Sofie Durnez, Gaël Santisteva
Administration & Production: Myriam Chekhemani, Elisabeth Maréchal (La chouette diffusion)
Communication & Distribution: Quentin Legrand (Rue Branly)
Production: Gilbert & Stock
Coproduction : Atelier 210, Charleroi danse - Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Théâtre national Wallonie-Bruxelles, UP - Circus & Performing Arts
Residencies: Charleroi danse, Grand Studio, Kunstenwerkplaats, Studio Thor, Arts Center Buda, Latitude 50 – Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue
With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Photos : Stanislav Dobak