LaPiratesse is an Antwerp/Dutch performance collective centered around Inez, a creative all-rounder, protest artist, and irresistible stage performer. They intertwine live music with costume design, alternative spoken word, sharp social criticism, and feminist texts, supported by powerful visuals. Their work operates at the intersection of concert, music theater, and avant-garde performance.
Each performance unfolds as a unique universe in which music, imagery, text, and atmosphere merge into visual live video clips that immerse the audience in a layered experience. Each number is a mini-performance in which Inez transforms into a new character, complete with extravagant, quirky outfits. As the front person, she guides her audience through thoughts, questions, and visions of the future, using the stage as a place for both stillness and outspoken protest.
Inez takes you into her personal reflections on gender, equality, technology, poverty, and the world of tomorrow. Poetic and vulnerable, yet always with a universal undercurrent, she prompts both thought and feeling. Together with multi-instrumentalists Wouter de Belder, Eva Korse, and Willem Heylen, and visual artist Sander Verbiest, LaPiratesse creates a total experience in which music, spoken word, visuals, fashion, and dance seamlessly merge. Musically, LaPiratesse is a melting pot of modern classical, jazz, pop-rock, and world music. Influences from Kae Tempest, Björk, and David Bowie resonate in a unique, distinctive sound that can be as intense as it is alienating.