2026 TCAF: Glow!

5.04 (Mon.) 12:00 Paid Member Pre-sale

5.11 (Mon.) 12:00 Official On-sale

A “glow” isn’t a bright light, but it’s long-lasting. It can also pulse like a heartbeat, gently. It’s not a bright, vivid light; it’s the opposite of “shine”. (Larousse Dictionary)

Somewhere on a planet,far away in the cosmos, lives a creature. Caniche.
A creature all alone.
It craves company. It waits. It dreams.
It dreams of meeting its great idol.
The brilliant, dazzling Glitter.
To shine
To be like Idol... it is its fondest wish.
But how do you bring your dreams to life when you are stuck in the grind of every day?
What if your heart becomes dull and everything loses its shine?
And what if, from the endless universe, someone shows up, as if by chance and unexpectedly.
Someone whose soft glow puts everything in a different light....Someone completely different.
Or maybe just not?
A visual, wordless, heartwarming performance about meeting and discovering, an ode to wonder.

In this visual show, with a surreal and poetic language, directors Audrey Dero and Oriane Varak join forces to create a playful, quirky pop performance. Together, as a duo, they explore the notion of delight and encounter in a disillusioned world that glorifies individualism with filters to tune reality.

Performing Group

Audrey Dero

Audrey Dero is a Belgian director who was trained at  INSAS in Brussels. Since 2013, she has been creating visual projects combining the manipulation of objects and the body. Interrogating the question of intimacy in theater, she works on intimate devices, integrating the audience into the performance, working in reduced forms or in non-theatrical locations (public spaces, libraries, museums, unequipped venues,...). In addition to her work as a designer, she works as an actress for various directors: IsabelleDarras (Normal), Guy Dermul (KVS), Johan De Smet (Kopergietery).

More Info: http://www.audreydero.be/
Facebook: @Audrey Dero
Instagram: @audreydero

Oriane Varak

Oriane Varak is a French director trained at the École Internationale Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Based in Brussels since 2010, she is the founder of Notch Company, whose work is based on sociological research, which is then developed in theatrical situations that she uses as a basis for visual creation. The resulting work is hybrid, raw and intense in its physicality. Notch, her first creation, focuses on the political body in the exercise of discourse. She is also an external viewer for Les Zerkiens (Les Peurs invisibles and Sous la table) and is directing their new show scheduled for 2025. She also creates customized movement workshops for various companies (Arts Nomades, Compagnie 3637, Pierre de Lune).

More Info: https://www.notchcompany.com/
Facebook: @Oriane Varak 
Instagram: @orianevarak

Audrey Dero (R) and Oriane Varak (L) are two directors and actresses based in Belgium who have joined forces to create this show.  ©Hans Lenvain