As part of the current process reporting, Belgium's television station VRT now recalled on its website that Jan Fabre, the Flemish director, choreographer and visual artist, said in an interview with the program in 2018 that he had never been accused of sexual harassment in his more than thirty-year career been exposed.

Maybe he just wanted to express that the relationships with the dancers and actresses of his ensemble "Troublen" were always such that none of them would publicly raise accusations against him.

In any case, he may have regretted his statement several times in recent years.

Because it was she who got twenty dancers and other employees to write a public letter in which they accused Fabre of

This was the start of the investigations and public dismantling in Belgium, which others in turn rejected as prejudice.

On the second day of the trial in early April, one of Fabre's lawyers said her client was "not a criminal who needs to be locked up."

She asked for his acquittal.

The court did not want to follow this view, even if it suspended the prison sentence of eighteen months on probation.

Fabre is also deprived of his civil rights for five years.

The Antwerp native has been convicted of one case of sexual assault, several cases of sexual harassment at work, bullying and violence.

According to VRT, the lawyer defended her client with these words: “Fabre's work focuses on the human body.

He researches the human body intensively, including blood,

sweat, cum and tears.

It's a radical, unconventional work that wants to break taboos."

Perhaps Fabre took silent endurance as approval.

As the boss, he should have realized that his dancers would take part out of fear of being fired, for example when he stuck strawberries in their vaginas at a photo shoot.

Even if you approve of performers biting each other on stage in such a way that their screams betray real pain, because the very point is to ambivalently portray how closely fear, pain, violence and pleasure are interrelated, even then you can given the process described consequences of this dissolution of boundaries only frighten.

Fabre did terrible things to women.

But they also did something to themselves.

Who needs theater that ends like this?