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The Annunciation
2026-2027 – in situ & black box performance
The Annunciation connects the Biblical scene of the Annunciation to abortion—where a spirit doesn’t enter but leaves a human body.
Starting from existing texts and iconography, Mary's mythos is rewritten with a focus on her embodied experience and her inner world.
Text and choreography review the archetype of the Mother-Virgin as an impossible model that lives on today in conventional, heteronormative notions of femininity.
in situ
Concept, text & performance Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx
Choreographic advice Maria Ferreira Silva
Dramaturgy Carolina Mendonça en Elke Van Campenhout
black box
Concept, text & performance Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx
Choreographic advice Maria Ferreira Silva
Light design Evelien Cammaert
Sound design Anne Lepère
Costume & set design Miguel Peñaranda Olmeda
Dramaturgy Carolina Mendonça & Elke Van Campenhout
© Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx, Charleroi Danse, December 2025, details from Annunciations by Beato Angelico, 1420, Leonardo da Vinci, 1472, Dirk Bouts 1450, Rupert Bunny, 1896, George Lawrence Bulleid, 1903, David Hockney, 2017.
Some Call Her The Star of The Sea
Kunstenwerkplaats, Brussels, June 2025
Carmera: Maria Ferreira Silva
Music: Ave Maria van Vladimir Vavilov (1970), falsely attributed to J. Caccini, version by Origen (2002).
​Some call her the Star of the Sea, others, Queen of Heaven, Mother Goddess, Mother of God, Goddess Mother, Mother of Mothers, Holy Maiden.
Simone de Beauvoir called her an idol, a servant, source of life, power of darkness, and the elementary silence of truth.
To me, she is also the seashore where waves of foam meet sand and rock. Silver moonlight. Your body, that of the ant, the whale, the starfish, the snake. The colors at dawn. The pitch-black night. The silence of your deepest sleep. The moment when it all began.​
She is your sex and your orgasm. Your gut, your blood, your appetite.​
Seated by the well, next to the great old tree where the fates weave our destiny, dressed in blue, she is spinning a thread, when rolling down from the sky like an alien, a winged creature appears. Their curls dance elegantly around their ageless face with tender features and dreamy eyes. Their body is meaty, full. One that you would like to squeeze. They have come with a stem of white lilies and accompanied by a ray of blinding light—in which some have, sometimes, seen a dove
flying down
straight
at her.
Mary On A Chair
Charleroi Danse, Brussels, December 2025
Mary Receives The News
Kunstenwerkplaats, Brussels, June 2025
Carmera: Maria Ferreira Silva
Music: Ave Maria, Melody Gardot (2020)
Mary Walks
Charleroi Danse, Brussels, December 2025
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