Mission
NTGent is a city theatre in motion that aims to question, motivate and move a diverse audience. We do this by creating and presenting high-profile productions and using theatre for social debate.
Ghent is our home base. As an open and travelling company, we want to use our productions to bring the world to Ghent and to show them to the world. We want to play a leading role in the Flemish and international performing-arts landscape. We’re an open house, accessible to all.
The city theatre that interests us stands between tradition and utopia. It does not stay on the stage where it was rehearsed, but goes on tour internationally. And it brings global issues to the city. We travel with our collaborators for research and manifestations. We offer a stage to actors and non-professional actors, of different nationalities and languages.
The city theatre that we are interested in stands between tradition and utopia. It does not remain on the stage on which it was rehearsed, but it tours internationally. And it brings global issues to the city. We make our plays together: with all those involved, with the audience, in a constant interaction with society. After all, we are not only interested in the canon of classical theatre, but especially in the world we live in.
STATEMENT NEW ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP
The new artistic discourse - consisting of the two artistic lines 'Art & New Technology' and 'Art, Care & Rituals' - inextricably links the Ghent perspective and international operations.
NTGent is a theatre that deals sustainably with its resources, people and environment. A theatre that stands figuratively and literally in the middle of the city with two venues (the KNS and Minnemeers). A theatre that plays a leading role in the Flemish and international performing arts landscape. A theatre that is an open house, accessible to everyone. A theatre that looks for new forms for the further development of the performing arts, that addresses major themes and selectively tours the country and the world with its performances. A theatre that believes in the connecting, transforming and healing power of art.
NTGent is a theatre where many generations of makers work alongside and with each other, where familiar faces and recognisable stories alternate with unfamiliar, surprising and alienating elements.
Yves Degryse, Barbara Raes and Melih Gençboyaci form the artistic leadership of NTGent. Together, they represent a multi-voiced, shared and caring leadership. With Daan Vander Steene as business director, the new artistic leadership will build on the current policy plan in the coming years, while at the same time gently transforming and sailing a new course. The new leadership does so together with a broad palette of creators: house artists Luanda Casella, Lara Staal, Yves Degryse I BERLIN, Milo Rau, Barbara Raes I Beyond the Spoken and Werktoneel, and artists in residence Miet Warlop/ Irene Wool, Chokri Ben Chika / AZH and Ontroerend Goed.
Together, all these artists form the multi-voiced and -faceted maker's house NTGent.