After working as a producer with several collectives,
theatres and festivals for many years
I continued with a BA & MA in Theatre Studies at Ghent University
and have worked as a freelance dramaturg and writer
for the last 8 years
#FORYOU
A contemporary theatrical music performance around Identity forming and AI / Social Media by Goggles
// Performance: Esther-Elisabeth Rispens & Wim Pelgrims // Composition: Jonathan Bonny // Director: Aïda Gabriëls // Video & Scenography: Jonas Beerts // Text and Dramaturgy: Ylona Supèr // Costumes: Sofie Durnez // Production: Veerle Vervoort // Sound engineer: Pieter-Jan Buelens // Technical coordination and light design: Peter Quasters //
With the support of the Flemish Government, Tax Shelter, Muziektheater Transparant, Muziekcentrum de Bijloke
Premiere in Oct 2024 in Bijloke, Ghent, BE
Previous Works
OESTER
Is a multi media performance collective of director Aïda Gabriëls, dramaturg and PhD Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze, and until recently myself, that focuses mainly on contemporary musical opera performances, where socially cultivated borders are questioned and gender in the heritage of theatre and art is being re-examined.
(I still write for this collective but stepped aside from the business aspect to focus on other projects and the Icelandic geography)
Image: ©Francis Vanhee
The Wild Stage
Welcome to The Wild Stage, a symbiotic collision of human energies,
a kaleidoscopic sanctuary of encounters,
Inspired by Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht’s sin city “Mahagonny Songspiel”
oester dives into the human need for escapism.
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/ director:
Aïda Gabriëls // performance & created with Casper Clausen, Mustav Ahmeti, Matteo Sedda, Pieter Theuns (B.O.X.), Timo Tembuyser, Jon Birdsong (B.O.X.), Adriaan de Roover & Rob Hayden //
Libretto Ylona Supèr //
dramaturgy Ylona Supèr, Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze //
choreography Germán Jauregui //
stage design Mia Fryk //
costumes Maarten Van Mulken //
sound Korneel Moreaux, Pieter-Jan Buelens //
lighting Harry Cole, Bram Vandeghinste //
visuals Francis Vanhee //
production Sebastiaan Peeters //
dramaturgy assistant Anuschka Carl //
Premiered Sept 2022 at Ancienne Belgique Brussels and toured 2022-2023
Image: ©Francis Vanhee
DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS
The enigmatic persona of Salome with her notorious dance of the seven veils has been inhabiting our imagination for ages. She is the talk of the town, yet never speaks for herself. In this radical re-interpretation Salomé sheds the oppressive gaze of desire. What happens when the so-called embodiment of sensuality tears apart the seven veils veiling and unveiling, in order to show her true nature?
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Directed by Aïda Gabriëls //
Text & Dramaturgy: Ylona Supèr //
Composition: Astrid Stockmans, Innerwoud & Colin H van Eeckhout //
Dance: German Jauregui //
Visual Performance & Artist: Rui Barros //
Assistant Director & Dramaturgy : Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze //
Premiered April 2021 at De Singel and toured 2021-2023
Image: ©Anton Coene
I AM THE ENEMY YOU KILLED MY FRIEND
Choreography on the war poem: “Strange Meeting” - By Wilfred Owen
// Dance: Lieselot Vanderroost & Oihana Azpillaga // Live Composition: Tatu Rönkkö // Director: Aïda Gabriëls //Live Video: Nana Vaneessen // Dramaturgy: Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze & Ylona Supèr
Performed in 2018
MEDEAMATERIAL
Heiner Müller’s poem “Verkommenes Ufer Medeamaterial Landschaft Mit Argonauten”, was written in 1981. On the boundary of East- and West-Berlin Müller depersonalises the Medea-figure and comprehends the loss of humanity as a complacent race, convinced of its own apparent eminence. Müller doesn’t spare anyone or anything. Do we really understand what life and human existence are about? Or is it about time to participate in a process of awareness that chants the relativity of our own being? Can we actually take a step back and redefine the core of human nature? Or are we beyond repair and about to be eliminated?
// Directed by Aïda Gabriëls // Music by Astrid Stockmans & Innerwoud // Dance by Lieselot Vanderroost // Dramaturgy: Ylona Supèr
Music from the record HAVEN resulted from the performance
Toured 2017-2018
ELEKTRA
Re-examens the Oresteia story from the position of each of the women, and the different motives and ways of warfare they uphold. While criticising the ‘heroic’ idea that was placed upon the males.
// Directed by Julie Van den Berghe //
Adaptation by Bernard Dewulf // Performance:
Lien Wildemeersch, Chris Thys, Servé Hermans, Anne-Chris Schulting and Jaap Spijkers //
CYRANO
A modern, humorous, yet tragical take on the famous love story
Directed by Julie Van den Berghe //
Text: Bernard Dewulf //
Performance: Ann Miller, Bert Luppes & Harm Duco Schut // Dramaturgy: Ylona Supèr
Image: NTGent