During KFDA 09 Dominique Roodthooft launched the first edition of Smatch, a series of ‘composed evenings’ that re-appropriate the stage as a laboratorium.
Roodthooft surrounds herself with actors, philosophers, sociologists and other makers. Their point of departure is an ordinary fact that raises eyebrows. The result is a careful and poetic composition of comments that surface an underlying theme without addressing it explicitly.
With Smatch Roodthooft aims to counter an often dark and single-minded phillosophic and media discours, she wants to offer an alternative for the ease with which their negativism influences society.
She is currently preparing the second edition of Smatch, during V/J12 Roodthooft will address her reformative approach of her medium theater.