http://www.walpurgis.be

Ever since it was established in 1989, WALPURGIS has specialized in the creation and development of contemporary music theatre in which the singer, both as a creator and as a performer, is the focus of interest. WALPURGIS is also an artistically and culturally diverse environment: multidisciplinary and many-voiced.

Soprano Judith Vindevogel has been the organization's artistic director since 1999. Her company regularly commissions compositions and text material and has its own CD label - WALPURGIS records.

Pursuing dialogue as a basis of its creative projects, the company does not depart from cut-and-dried ideas of what music theatre should be. Instead, it makes room for what music theatre could become. Therefore, apart from being the company's artistic foundation, dialogue is also a major theme in most - if not all - of WALPURGIS's projects.

At the basis of WALPURGIS's artistic development is the idea of the ensemble: a collective of free and individual artists working together in long term artistic partnerships. Because none of these artists are actually employed on a regular basis, they feel free to bring in new ideas and experiences during each new project's development process. As a result all parties involved have had an equal say in WALPURGIS's productions.