Needcompany is an international, multilingual and multidisciplinary performance group which debuted in 1986. Jan Lauwers is the company’s founder and artistic director. Jan Lauwers and Needcompany have also produced a number of video projects and a full-length film. Grace Ellen Barkey, who has been involved with the company since it was founded, has been making her own productions under its wing since 1992, on the borderline where theatre, dance, performance and art meet. These two artists form the heart of Needcompany.
The group of performers Jan Lauwers and Grace Ellen Barkey have put together over the years is quite unique in its versatility. Their associated performing artists are MaisonDahlBonnema (Hans Petter Dahl & Anna Sophia Bonnema), Lemm&Barkey (Lot Lemm &
Grace Ellen Barkey), OHNO COOPERATION (Maarten Seghers & Jan Lauwers) and the NC ensemble, which includes the inimitable Viviane De Muynck. They create work of their own under Needcompany’s wings.

Work by Jan Lauwers

• 1987 : Need to Know
• 1989 : ça va
• 1990 : Julius Caesar
• 1991 : Invictos
• 1992 : Antonius und Kleopatra
• 1992 : SCHADE/schade
• 1993 : Orfeo, opera by Walter Hus
  Walter Hus
  Walter Hus is a Belgian composer and musician.Walter Hus studied at the music conservatories in Ghent and Brussels. In 1984, he graduated with excellence for piano with Prof. Dr. Robert Steyaert and soon became involved with new music in many different expressions...
  
  
• 1994 : The Snakesong Trilogy - Snakesong/Le Voyeur
• 1995 : The Snakesong Trilogy - Snakesong/Le Pouvoir (Leda)
• 1996 : Needcompany's Macbeth
• 1996 : The Snakesong Trilogy - Snakesong/Le Désir
• 1997 : Caligula, No beauty for me there, where human life is rare, part one
• 1998 : The Snakesong Trilogy, adapted version with live music
• 1999 : Morning Song, No beauty for me there, where human life is rare, part two
• 2000 : Needcompany’s King Lear
• 2000 : DeaDDogsDon'tDance/ DjamesDjoyceDeaD
• 2001 : Ein Sturm
• 2002 : Images of Affection
• 2003 : No Comment
• 2004 : Isabella’s Room
• 2006 : All is vanity
• 2006 : The Lobster Shop
• 2007 : The Porcelain Project
• 2008 : The Deer House
• 2008 : The Sad Face | Happy Face trilogy
• 2011 : The art of entertainment

Short films

• From Alexandria (1988)
• Mangia (1995)
• Sampled Images (2000)
• C-Song 01 (2003)
• C-Songs – The Lobster Shop (2006)

Work by Grace Ellen Barkey

• 1992 : One
• 1993 : Don Quijote
• 1995 : Tres
• 1997 : Stories (histoires/verhalen)
• 1998 : Rood Red Rouge
• 1999 : The Miraculous Mandarin
• 2000 : Few Things
• 2002 : (AND)
• 2005 : Chunking
• 2007 : The Porcelain Project
• 2010: This door is too small (for a bear)

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