LOD

Category:muziektheater, hedendaagse muziek
1989
Genre(s):Jazz, theatermuziek, 21ste eeuw / hedendaags, 20ste eeuw, klassiek crossover, Klassiek
Actual/previous members:Kris Defoort, Josse De Pauw, Thomas Smetryns, Daan Janssens, Frederik Neyrinck, Nabou Claerhout, Lieselot De Wilde
Guest members:Hanna Kölbel

Biography

LOD muziektheater is a Ghent production company for opera and musical theatre, a creative base for performing artists. 
 
LOD undertakes to map out long-term trajectories; with directors Josse De Pauw, Inne Goris, Steve Salembier, Gorges Ocloo, Lies Pauwels and Laila Soliman as well as composers Kris Defoort, Daan Janssens, Thomas Smetryns, Frederik Neyrinck, Bushra El-Turk, Jamie Man and Nabou Claerhout. In addition, LOD remains open to those who - always surprisingly, but never by chance - cross our artistic path. Our production company is intended to ben an overarching platform for these artists, and is meant to offer the resources to develop their ideas. 
 
LOD focuses resolutely on what is to come, among other things through our commitment to support young talent. We are working on the future of musical theatre through the European Network of Opera Academies (enoa), which provides quality workshops for young performing artists and opportunities for lasting exchanges between international opera houses. At the end of the summer, we open up our rehearsal spaces to up-and-coming new talent during the Bijloke Summer Academy – Music Theatre, in collaboration with our neighbours on the Bijlokesite: KASK & Royal Conservatory School of Arts, International Opera Academy, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke and SPECTRA) and with the cooperation 10x10 with VIERNULVIER Arts Centre, we support many young performing artists with a heart for music theatre every year. 
 
Although collaboration has been one of the foundations of our work since the beginning, it all started in Ghent - with 'Lunch op Donderdag' ('Lunch on Thursday'). We want to focus more on presenting our own productions in our own LOD Studio and during Bijloke Wonderland, a biennial arts festival at the Bijlokesite. 

Selective discography

Zwarte vogels in de bomenZwarte vogels in de bomen (2003)
21st century / contemporary
Katelijne Van Laethem, Dick van der Harst, Elise Caluwaerts, Ann De Prest, Ayala Sicron, Kim Delcour, Liam Fennelly, Jowan Merckx (...)
Vierkant Muziek - 2002Vierkant Muziek - 2002 (2002)
Jazz, classical
Beethoven Academie, Pianoduo Kolacny, LOD, BL!NDMAN Collective, Prometheus Ensemble, Ben Sluijs Quartet, Erik Vermeulen Trio, Collegium Vocale Gent (...)
Vierkant Muziek - 2001Vierkant Muziek - 2001 (2001)
classical
Greetings from Mercury, Boenox, Flat Earth Society, Oxalys, Prometheus Ensemble, BL!NDMAN Collective, LOD, Spiegel Strijkkwartet (...)

Related Items

News:OPERA XXI presenteert drie wereldcreaties (12.05.2011)
Opera XXI of een nieuw tweejaarlijks Muziektheaterfestival in Vlaanderen (22.04.2009)
Tweede opera van Kris Defoort in première (20.04.2009)
Press Clips:
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Flanders - Cultural crossroads in the heart of Europe (06.2009)
Organisations:Opera XXI (festival)
Documents:De internationale praktijk in de muziektheatersector: een blik achter de schermen (thesis)
Opera XXI - biënnale hedendaags muziektheater (brochure)
External links:Facebookpagina van LOD
Instagrampagina van LOD