The Jewish Museum of Belgium is partnering with RendezVous and invites you on 12 September to discover two original creations: a performance by Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer in collaboration with Mélodie Blaison, and a culinary experience by Table Dance.
RendezVous is an annual celebration of Brussels’ vibrant art scene, bringing together galleries, public institutions, private foundations, auction houses and artist-run initiatives across the city for four days of exhibitions, events, and discursive programs. Every year in September, over 60 venues open their doors to reveal new artistic voices and connect with the cultural heartbeat of Brussels.
Programme
- Performance by Mélodie Blaison and Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer
- Culinary performance Table Dance by Michelle Woods and Roman Hiele
With Table Dance, Michelle Woods and Roman Hiele create a unique work, a dialogue between performance and gastronomy inspired by their former pop-up restaurant.
Initiated by cook Michelle Woods and musician Roman Hiele, Table Dance was a restaurant and event space rooted in Antwerp. More aptly described as a practice than a venue, Table Dance now continues to operate nomadically as an ever-evolving body, although the duo officially celebrated its funeral at KVS in 2023. Table Dance made a name as providers of fine food, drinks, and entertainment. Existing far away from any standards, their practice consists of a hybrid mix of cuisine, music, performance, and scenography cherishing freedom, creativity, and collective quality time above all.
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Mélodie Blaison and Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer present an original creation in which sound, breath, and ritual gesture enter into dialogue.
This performance emerges from the encounter between the two artists’ practices. Mélodie Blaison works with sound and breath, while Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer works through ritual gesture. Their respective materials—voice, flute, ceramics, and performative actions—meet within a shared space. Sound and gesture intertwine, moving bodies through a continuous flow.
Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer (born in 1992, lives and works in Brussels) develops a practice in which photography serves as an anchor point, in dialogue with video, installation, and performance. As an artist-researcher, she initiated her laboratory J’ai rêvé l’obscur in 2020, based on an in-depth exploration of Starhawk’s text Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982). This reference nourishes her multidisciplinary practice, which pays particular attention to the neopagan dimensions of ecofeminism.
Felgenhauer creates immersive, collective, and sensitive forms that challenge dominant narratives and open spaces for transformation. Her artistic research, informed by history, sociology, and philosophy through a gender-conscious lens, explores the relationships between body and land, image and ritual, politics and the sacred. Narrative occupies a central place in her work—as a critical tool, an emancipatory experience, and a force capable of reshaping imaginaries.
Based in Brussels, Mélodie Blaison is a sound artist, composer, and flautist. She explores the boundaries between performance, electroacoustic composition, field recording, and ceramic instrument-making. Her work centres on breath as a primary material, shaping voices, instruments, and spaces to create listening situations in which sound emerges, transforms, and disappears according to the conditions that receive it.
Her works combine acoustic and electronic textures, field recordings, and instrumental gestures, creating unstable sonic environments in which perception is constantly reconfigured. She also designs ceramic instruments activated by air and water, which are used in performances and installations.
