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Lies Pauwels

LIES PAUWELS (°1968, Ghent) is both director and actress. She could be seen in the legendary pieces by Alain Platel and Arne Sierens and has worked with countless performers and groups including Tg STAN, Het Toneelhuis, Dood Paard, Eric De Volder, Dimitri Verhulst and Josse De Pauw. She has created many performances at home and abroad, such as at the Manchester International Festival, Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Burgtheater in Vienna. At hetpaleis in Antwerp, she created The Hamilton Complex, which was a breakthrough success both in Flanders and internationally. Lies is one of the LOD’s artists in residence. Do the Calimero was her first production for LOD muziektheater. 

Her work is characterised by a true-to-life quality unique in theatre. The performances often start from a fascination for unique people or situations, but time and time again, Pauwels succeeds in using these ostensibly extravagant starting points as catalysts for a much more universal story. Because in the end, we are all people wrestling with the same problems, suffering from the same limitations and who ultimately can only do their best to make something of life, despite everything. 

In January 2024, Lies Pauwels will premiere her second major production at LOD, Love Doll playing with the big boys in a different kind of space. In Love Doll, she explores the utopia of connection in a splintered world. How paradoxical is the gap between man and woman, human and animal, nature and technology, body and mind, individual and collective? Pauwels explores these and other questions in the company of dancer Nicolas Vladyslav, drag artist Sam De Mol alias Veronika Deneuve, two young singers, four musicians from B'ROCK Orchestra and saxophonist Bertel Schollaert. Together, the players get lost in a visual wonderland by designer Johanna Trudzinski. Composer Frederik Neyrinck creates a hybrid score in which the historical and the contemporary merge.

Productions

  • Do the Calimero

    LOD & hetpaleis / Lies Pauwels
    Thu 21 Apr - Sun 10 Dec
    21 Apr
    -
    10 Dec
    Past event
    • 21 Apr
      20:00
      Première
      On tour,
      hetpaleis - Antwerp (BE)
      Past event
    • 22 Apr
      20:00
      On tour,
      hetpaleis - Antwerp (BE)
      Past event
    • 23 Apr
      20:00
      On tour,
      hetpaleis - Antwerp (BE)
      Past event
    • 29 Apr
      20:00
      On tour,
      hetpaleis - Antwerp (BE)
      Past event
    • 30 Apr
      20:00
      On tour,
      hetpaleis - Antwerp (BE)
      Past event
    • 18 May
      20:00
      in, Gent
      NTGent - Gent (BE)
      Past event
    • 19 May
      20:00
      in, Gent
      NTGent - Gent (BE)
      Past event
    • 25 May
      20:00
      On tour,
      de Brakke Grond - Amsterdam (NL)
      Past event
    • 26 May
      20:00
      On tour,
      de Brakke Grond - Amsterdam (NL)
      Past event
    • 1 Jun
      20:15
      On tour,
      Koninklijke Schouwburg - Den Haag (NL)
      Past event
    • 2 Jun
      20:15
      On tour,
      Koninklijke Schouwburg - Den Haag (NL)
      Past event
    • 19 Jun
      20:00
      Schaxpir Festival Linz - Linz (AU)
      Past event
    • 2 Jul
      19:30
      On tour,
      Festival Tweetakt - Utrecht (NL)
      Past event
    • 9 Sep
      19:30
      On tour,
      Apollo-Theater Siegen, Siegen (DE)
      Past event
    • 17 Nov
      19:00 - 21:00
      On tour,
      NEXT Arts Festival - Kortrijk/Lille (BE)
      Past event
    • 18 Nov
      20:00 - 22:00
      On tour,
      NEXT Arts Festival - Kortrijk/Lille (BE)
      Past event
    • 19 Jan
      20:00 - 22:00
      On tour,
      hetpaleis - Antwerp (BE)
      Past event
    • 20 Jan
      20:00 - 22:00
      On tour,
      hetpaleis - Antwerp (BE)
      Past event
    • 9 Feb
      20:30 - 22:30
      On tour,
      l’Onde Théâtre Centre d’Art - Vélizy-Villacoublay
      Past event
    • 18 Feb
      20:00 - 22:00
      On tour,
      CC Evergem - Evergem (BE)
      Past event
    • 14 Jun
      17:00
      Schaxpir Festival Linz - Linz (AU)
      Past event
    • 15 Jun
      10:00
      Schaxpir Festival Linz - Linz (AU)
      Past event
    • 29 Sep
      19:30
      On tour,
      Dublin Theatre Festival
      Past event
    • 30 Sep
      19:30 - 21:30
      On tour,
      Dublin Theatre Festival
      Past event
    • 9 Dec
      20:00 - 22:00
      On tour,
      Theater im Pumpenhaus
      Past event
    • 10 Dec
      20:00 - 22:00
      On tour,
      Theater im Pumpenhaus
      Past event

  • Pleidooi voor de Zonde

    Lies Pauwels & Thomas Smetryns
    Thu 12 Aug - Fri 27 Aug
    in, Gent
    Bijloke Wonderland - Buitenpodium - Ghent (BE)
    12 Aug
    -
    27 Aug
    Past event
    • 12 Aug
      12:00 - 13:00
      BIJLOKE WONDERLAND 2021
      in, Gent
      Bijloke Wonderland - Buitenpodium - Ghent (BE)
      Past event
    • 13 Aug
      12:00 - 13:00
      BIJLOKE WONDERLAND 2021
      in, Gent
      Bijloke Wonderland - Buitenpodium - Ghent (BE)
      Past event
    • 19 Aug
      12:00 - 13:00
      BIJLOKE WONDERLAND 2021
      in, Gent
      Bijloke Wonderland - Buitenpodium - Ghent (BE)
      Past event
    • 26 Aug
      12:00 - 13:00
      BIJLOKE WONDERLAND 2021
      in, Gent
      Bijloke Wonderland - Buitenpodium - Ghent (BE)
      Past event
    • 27 Aug
      12:00 - 13:00
      BIJLOKE WONDERLAND 2021
      in, Gent
      Bijloke Wonderland - Buitenpodium - Ghent (BE)
      Past event

  • Love Doll playing with the big boys in a different kind of space

    LOD / Lies Pauwels & Frederik Neyrinck
    Fri 26 Jan - Thu 18 Apr
    26 Jan
    -
    18 Apr
    Past event
    • 26 Jan
      20:00
      Premiere
      On tour,
      deSingel - Antwerp (BE)
      Past event
    • 27 Jan
      20:00
      On tour,
      deSingel - Antwerp (BE)
      Past event
    • 1 Feb
      20:00
      in, Gent
      Arts Centre VIERNULVIER - Ghent (BE)
      Past event
    • 2 Feb
      20:00
      in, Gent
      Arts Centre VIERNULVIER - Ghent (BE)
      Past event
    • 3 Feb
      20:00
      in, Gent
      Arts Centre VIERNULVIER - Ghent (BE)
      Past event
    • 9 Mar
      19:00
      On tour,
      Apollo-Theater Siegen, Siegen (DE)
      Past event
    • 18 Apr
      20:00
      On tour,
      Koninklijke Schouwburg - Den Haag (NL)
      Past event