Needcompany

Needcompany is an international performance group formed in 1986.

The two artists at the heart of Needcompany are Jan Lauwers and Grace Ellen Barkey.

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 Viviane De Muynck.

Needcompany's work has been documented by John Freeman in 'The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Brook to the Sydney Olympics' and in an article for New Theatre Quarterly 'No Boundaries Here: Brecht, Lauwers, and European Theatre after Postmodernism' 29(03).

Media related to Needcompany at Wikimedia Commons

Needcompany after their performance in Poznań , 29 June 2010