The Origin Of The Future
Theater Show
[Oracular Practices]
The Origin of the Future is a performance in development, with its premiere scheduled for September 2027 at the KVS Theater in Brussels. The piece is based on the premise that underwear marked with vaginal discharge can be interpreted as oracular messages. Just as we read coffee grounds or the lines on the palms of our hands, “Discharge-mancy” is a forgotten divinatory art that finds, in this performance, a space for manifestation.
Project Trajectory
In 2025, the performance was presented in a work-in-progress format at the Fringe Festival Amsterdam.
It received the I SEE YOU Award at the WHAT YOU SEE festival in Utrecht and was included in the festival’s program in December 2025.
It was also part of the WIPCOOP program at the KVS Theater and participated in the Under Construction festival at the Frascati Theater in Amsterdam.
“There must be a kind of painting totally free of the dependence on the figure — or object — which, like music, illustrates nothing, tells no story, and launches no myth. Such painting would simply evoke the incommunicable kingdoms of the spirit, where dream becomes thought, where line becomes existence”.
Michel Seuphor (opening epigraph of Água Viva, Clarice Lispector)
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SYNOPSIS
I went to the toilet.
And something significant was unfolding
before my eyes during that encounter.
I looked closer, and I saw it:
her dress, her hair, the smoke coming out of her pipe.
Her position was strategic. Small.
Like a painted ghost on a 5-by-7-centimeter cotton fabric.
I remembered that I had just put a lot of underwear into the washing machine.
I went back and checked.
Daily wash mode: ON.
Duration: 1 h 30 min.
Not a trace of them would survive.
Cast & Crew
Conception and direction
Scenography
Original texts
Playwright
Music composition and performances
Performances
Set design
Costume
Light Design
Video Design
Exhibition Video (Rubber Tree)
Translations
Research
Picture
External Advisors
DAS tutor
DAS Artistic Director
External eye and close advisor
Acknowledgements
Aline Olmos
Tetembua Dandara and Aline Olmos
Carolina Nóbrega and Aline Olmos
Carolina Nóbrega
Paula Mirhan
Aline Olmos Steler, Billy Mullaney, Laiza Dantas, Paula Mirhan, Tetembua Dandarad
Tetembua Dandara
Aline Olmos
Gabriele dos Santos
Laiza Dantas
Douglas Lambert
Carolina Nóbrega
Aline Olmos Steler, Billy Mullaney Laiza Dantas, Paula Mirhan, Tetembua Dandara, Carolina Nóbrega
Malaz Usta, Tim Mai Tan, and Victoriano Moreno
Carolina Nóbrega, Marta Keil e Tetembua Dandara.
Marjorie Boston
Ingrid Vranken
Leandro Souza
Mário Cabral (in memoriam), Patsy Lassbo, Mahsa Koochak, Sîpan Sezgin Tekin, Marten Heijnens, Chun Shing Au, Renan Marcondes, Merel Heering, Ahmed el Gendy, Douglas Lambert, Elise Bernardelo, Eva Sol, Michiel van Schijdel, Lilian Papini, Eduardo Bordinhon, Rodrigo Batista, Maria Fernanda Vischi D’ottavio, Gabriel Kitoffi Tonelo, Nataly Pimentel Rodrigues, Tatiana Silva Capitanio, Isis Andreata, Flávia Pinheiro, Carolina Bianchi, Maurício Schneider, Lucas Pradino, Fábia Mirassos, Giovanna Kelly, Fernanda Jannuzzelli, Fernando Neves, Katia Daher, Paula Hemsi, Zé Valdir, Andrea Caruso Saturnino, Ricardo Fernandes, Gosie Vervloessem, Bito, Antônio, Nilcilea e Thais Olmos, Manoel e Patrocínio Santander, Marilea Steler de Almeida and DAS Community.