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Theatre of shadows and sand, sand shapes that form and vanish under the light and the hands. A musical show with multi-instrumentalist Jean Jadin. And a story about being able to make just one wish, and what would it be? An enchanted ball could grant it. Which one will you choose?

If you could make one wish, just one, what would it be? One day?
Snowy found an enchanted ball. It offered everyone who held it the right to make one wish and one wish only. What could Snowy wish for?
Snowy wish? That it’s difficult to make a choice. When the ball passes the village is transformed in the blink of an eye.
But are the villagers happier than before?
The audience can watch artist Sandrine Calmant draw in the sand. This appears on a large screen. In her drawings, the artist moves her characters in shadow, making the story visible.
Musician Jean Jadin accompanies this marvellous experience on piano and celesta. Jean Jadin and Sandrine Calmant tell this ancient tale in the form of a poetic theatre of images, in which the children the spellbinding interplay between images and music.
After the show, children can try their hand at creating an image in the sand. Sandrine Calmant prepares small light boxes and cover them with a thin layer of sand. Then each can try their hand at it with their fingers or a paintbrush and create their own work of art. While Jean Jadin rehearses the melodies from the play, the play, the children draw their luminous images in a calm and concentrated.

With the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, the German-speaking region of Belgium (Ostbelgien) and the Ministry of Culture of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, Image of Brussels, the Loterie Nationale and Ixelles District.