With his first solo, Protéiforme, Benoît Nieto Duran pushed the demanding boundaries of breakdance and hip-hop movements to create a new style.
Today, as part of a duo, he is continuing this exploration by tackling the notion of ‘elsewhere’: the elsewhere of oneself, the elsewhere that is the other. Here we are dealing with the aesthetics of ‘distortion’ that allows us to see the absurdity of our everyday gestures. Starting from the imitation of the dancers, Benoît Nieto Duran creates a new choreography. In his pursuit of a free and ideal language, this creation, straddling depth and dynamism, presents another exploration of movement. Surprising to say the least.
October 23rd – 31st, 2024 KVS, Brussels November 8th – 9th, 2024 Pumpenhaus, Münster December 18th, 2024 CCHA, Hasselt January 16th, 2025 Teatro Bonci, Cesena January 18th, 2025 Teatro Storchi, Modena January 31st, 2025 Cultuurcentrum De Schakel, Waregem Feburary 27th, 2025 Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Bruges March 15th, 2025 Posthof, Linz 60 minutes
In this new creation, Vandekeybus embraces the void – even more so – he seeks it out. He starts anew, goes back to square one, taking the simple emptiness as a starting point to arrive at a new form of awareness. He not only seeks to feel existence, life, in a different way, but also aims to add a new way of valuing the performance. By looking differently, within complete simplicity.
“Enlarging by emptying” sounds contradictory but works in a simple way: an empty room seems bigger than a full one. True essence demands throwing off all ballast. An emptiness filled with elusive dignity. Bodies attracting each other like minerals and magnets. Movement as expression of the deepest inner state… An emptiness that offers countless possibilities to be filled…
NO MERCY navigates our daily virtual and non-virtual modes of feeling. During this 45-minute DJ set, nasa4nasa explores the limits of sensuality and desire interplaying with violence. The two female bodies navigate the gaze, referencing their repertoires of body image, pop, rage and intimacy. nasa4nasa will lure you in, disarm you and in the process unravel in their own drama.
nasa4nasa is a dance collective based in Cairo co-founded by dancers Noura Seif Hassanein and Salma AbdelSalam in 2016. Housed primarily on Instagram, the collective’s work explores image-making and online presence as their ongoing dance practice. nasa4nasa’s debut performance SUASH premiered at Next Festival and MDT (2018). They were most recently awarded the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture for their latest work Sham3edan (2023).
To mark ARTONOV’s tenth anniversary, dancer-choreographer Akaji Maro, a living butoh legend, meets virtuoso cellist Eric-Maria Couturier, soloist with the Ensemble intercontemporain, for an original performance.
Based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites, the butoh dancer and the musician dialogue and improvise, in a radical staging that transcends historical periods, cultural areas and artistic genres.
With a narrative based on the development of a human being, the performance explores with intensity the notions of identity, in all their ambiguity and contradictions.
A powerful and harmonious encounter between two strong, original personalities at the peak of their art.
September 26th – 28th, 2024 Teatro Argentina, Rome October 2nd – 4th, 2024 Théâtre 71, Malakoff October 11th – 12th, 2024 Théâtre de Liège, Liège October 30th – 31st, 2024 Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels November 13th – 15th, 2024 Tandem scène nationale, Douai December 2nd – 15th, 2024 ThéâtredelaCité, Toulouse January 10th – 11th, 2025 Le Parvis scène nationale, Tarbes January 24th – February 1st, 2025 MC93, Bobigny February 18th – 22th, 2025, Comédie de Genève, Geneva 2h
An opus even more choreographic than the previous works, Qui som? , under the influence of the Spanish group Mal Pelo, could be considered the heir to Maguy Marin’s May B or Paso Doble by the duo Josef Nadj and Miquel Barceló.
Philippe Noisette
The first part of a triptych in which ceramic is both the material and the gesture of an investigation into our worlds in the making, a journey through our ways of believing and doing together, Qui som? is a wager: that dreaming is an exploratory and transformative power, an imaginary force that overflows each of us to link us to other presences, a way of orienting ourselves in obscure journeys, in secret lands. It’s a struggle. It’s alive. In colour. In clay. In plastic. In scraps and eternity.
“Our inner worlds, our intimate territories, are the breeding ground for the social landscapes to come. So if what’s to come is already here, inside our bodies, if it’s already being made inside us, we’re trying to highlight what keeps the joy, the desire, what resists, sings and dances inside us forever, to give ourselves the courage to see ourselves and not forget the worst.”
September 24th – 28th, 2024 charleroi danse / la raffinerie, Brussels October 12th – 13th, 2024 Teatro Argentina, Rome October 17th – 19th, 2024 mercat de les flors, Barcelona November 6th, 2024 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam November 19th – 23th, 2024 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris December 11th, 2024 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges December 14th, 2024 Leietheater, Deinze 90 minutes
On a selection of thirteen tracks by women, his dance spares us the illustration. Instead, it acts as a filter to enhance our listening experience.
Léa Poiré
‘Redundant.’ Or more bluntly: ‘Irritating noise.’ This is how the voice of the woman has often been considered from ancient Greek times to today.
VOICE NOISE is inspired by Anne Carson’s essay ‘The Gender of Sound’ (1992), in which she exposes how patriarchal culture has sought to silence women by ideologically associating women’s sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.
In VOICE NOISE, some innovative, unknown and/or forgotten women’s voices from the past hundred years of music history are given a stage. By doing so, Jan Martens takes another step in his efforts to shape an alternative canon.
Six dancers respond to recordings in which the human voice can be heard in various guises: humming, soothing, shrieking, whispering, singing. Gradually, they discover their own voice.
