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Bloody Grace!
2027 – solo performance based on my research on the Annunciation
A solo that questions conventional interpretations of the Annunciation by approaching the scene as a critical moment that many of us experience: the discovery of a pregnancy.
A hypnotic soundscape reconnects the story to pagan myth. Slow choreography, DIY aesthetics, and an in-situ approach bring the Biblical scene closer to immanent, daily, sensorial reality.
Concept, text & performance Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx
Choreographic advice Maria Ferreira Silva
Light research Evelien Cammaert
Sound design Anne Lepère
Dramaturgy Elke Van Campenhout
Dramaturgical vistis Carolina Mendonça
Partners: Metarage (Brussels), VIERNULVIER (Ghent), KAAP (Bruges), BUDA (Kortijk).
Work-in-progress presentations: Lundynamite, Autumn 2026, Brussels (Metrage, Les Halles de Schaerbeek & Le Bamp); International Visitors Programme, December Dance Days, Bruges (KAAP, Kunstenpunt & Concertgebouw).
The Annunciation
2024 – 2026 research project
The Annunciation, the Biblical scene where Gabriel announces to Mary her role as virginal mother of God, legitimizes in its most common reading patriarchal control over subaltern bodies and their sexuality. In this research, I build on details within Annunciation iconography, texts and songs to develop an emancipatory interpretation of this heritage through writing and choreographic research.
Partners: BUDA (Kortrijk), GC De Rinck, GC De Markten, Kunstenwerkplaats, La Raffinerie-Charleroi Danse (Brussels), STUK (Leuven).
© 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.
Simone Lippo, 1333; Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1898; Duccio, 1311; James Jacques Tissot, 1897; Giotto di Bondone, 1303-1305; Frederick James Shields, 1894; Caravaggio, 1608; Dante Gabriël Rosetti, 1850; John William Waterhouse, 1914; Marianne Stokes-Preindlsberger, Oleksandr Murashko, 1909; 1855-1927; Arthur Hacker, 1926; George Hitchcock, 1887; Leonardo da Vinci, 1473; George Lawrence Bulleid, 1903; Fra Angelico, 1433; Robert Fowler, 19th century; Elisabeth Ohlson, 1998; Pietro Cavallini, 1296; Sandro Botticelli, 1495; Titian, 1530; Heinrich Vogeler, 1901; Book of Hours, 1480.
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