Performance

ZolenZooi

ZolenZooi is a poetic and humorous performance full of circus and dance. It is also the first +4 performance that TeaTime ever made. Therefore we are able to bring our performances also to the little ones.

In this winter setting, see how two acrobats investigate their differences and discover what it means to want to have, possess, need, or need someone. Because “want to have” and “need” is therefore not yet the same. Even if it’s something simple, like… a shoe

Enjoy their journey towards warmth, joy and friendship in this enjoyable performance without any spoken words.

Walking in someone else’s shoes

Beautiful visual performance! The players seduce with their facial expressions, let you laugh and show the value of sharing together.
Wouter Bakker from the Verkade Fabriek (NL)

The performance unfolds like a real game of cat and mouse. The two acrobats attract and repel each other, each inventing clever ways to escape. When one seems to have the other firmly in hand, the other wriggles away with ease, slipping playfully through the smallest gaps.

Through partner acrobatics, Chinese pole techniques, and a generous dose of humor, they climb over, under, and around each other until suddenly, out of nowhere, a mountain of shoes appears on stage. Then begins the juggling, balancing, and stumbling, with one clear goal: to claim the shoes.

But how far would you go to get something you want so badly? Where is the limit? And what happens if you cross it?

In the end, we discover in playful, funny, and sometimes painful ways the moral of the story: sharing and playing together.

He wants it so much. Really love to.

He can’t go without it. It’s that simple. 

Or not? 

But she has it, and he doesn’t? That feels unfair.

Right?

If she has it, then he can have it too? Then he can take it. Because fair is fair.

Right?

Or…

What if you “want to have” but that hurts the other person?Do you still want that?
And what if the roles were reversed?

What if we’re walking in someone else’s shoes?

Credits

Production

TeaTime Company

Performers

Mitzi Ceusters & Bavo De Smedt

Concept

Bavo De Smedt

Direction & Choreography

Mitzi Ceusters & Bavo De Smedt

Outside Eye

Freek Nieuwdorp &Pia Meuten

Photography

Jona Harnischmacher

Music

Bastian Benjamin

Light & Technique

Casper Van Overschee & Ine Van Bortel

Graphic design

Bart Van Roy

Technical support

Johan Suys, Glenn Suys & Eddie De Smedt

Funding

FPK | Nieuwe Makersregeling
Verkade Fabriek & Sabam for Culture

Mentor

Panama Pictures

Support

Panama Pictures, Buro Piket, Thassos, Verkade Fabriek, Circolito VZW, De Ruimte Leuven

Specs

Location

Indoor

Duration

50 min

Capacity

250

Age

4+

Setting

Frontal

Stage (length/width/height)

minimum 8 x 8 x 5meter

Performances per day

max 2 per day

Persons on tour

3

Disciplines

Dance, acrobatics, object manipulation

Calendar

Upcoming Dates

04-12-2025
CC De Adelberg Lommel
School performance
17-12-2025
CC Zwijndrecht
Indoor
18-01-2026
CC Lanake
Indoor
22-02-2026
De Groene Engel (NL)
Indoor
08-03-2026
CC Mechelen (BE)
Indoor
09-03-2026
CC Mechelen (BE)
School performance, Indoor
03-01-2027
De Nieuwe Vorst SNERT Festival
Indoor

Past Dates

29-11-2025
Verkade Fabriek
Indoor
23-11-2025
Verkade Fabriek
Indoor
22-11-2025
Verkade Fabriek
Indoor
16-11-2025
Verkade Fabriek
Indoor
03-11-2025
Corso theater Berchem (BE)
School performance
02-11-2025
Corso theater Berchem (BE)
Belgian Premiere
01-12-2024
Verkade Fabriek
Performance, Indoor
30-11-2024
Verkade Fabriek
Performance, Indoor
26-11-2024
Verkade Fabriek
School performance, Indoor
25-11-2024
Verkade Fabriek
School performance, Indoor