The Dog Days Are Over 2.0

The Dog Days Are Over 2.0 questions the boundaries between art and entertainment, while interrogating our perception of the performers' suffering on stage. With mathematical, repetitive choreography, the dancers pursue a relentless quest for perfection. Their bodies, in near-perfect synchronization, eventually come up against error. It is in these moments of fragility, when imperfection emerges, that the mask falls off. Exhaustion is no longer a failure, but a shared experience between performer and audience. Through this reinterpretation, Jan Martens goes beyond simple physical performance to question the role of spectator-ice. The Dog Days Are Over 2.0 is an invitation to look differently, and to question our way of consuming performance.