Scapegoat is a dark dance of despair in the inferno of Dante’s Divine Comedy. In a world where intentions and actions are flourescent, the performers indulge in movements that take them far beyond the limits of the human.

In a desolate, dark inferno based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, faceless individuals wander around. In this world, it is not always clear with what intention an action departs from one to another. In a game of perception and interpretation, the audience is swallowed up in the barren land of creatures performing a dance of despair beyond that which makes them human.

Scapegoat is a theatre performance by Kortrijk-based playwright Ferenc Balcaen, in which he explores the changing boundary between pain, love and eroticism. He uses the performers’ vocal identity in an idiosyncratic way, inspired by a wide aural range: from Gregorian chants to contemporary vocal techniques. In a soundscape based on Liszt’s Dante Sonata/Fantasia Quasi Sonata, Scapegoat encourages the audience to think more deeply about the relationship between image, sound and intention.