Deinze Archives - Dancephere

June 25th – 28th, 2025 VIERNULVIER, Ghent
July 31st – August 5th, 2025 Theater Aan Zee, Ostend
August 19th – 21st, 2025 Noorderzon, Groningen
October 3rd – 5th, 2025 Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Schaerbeek
October 21st – 22nd, 2025 Circa Auch, Auch
April 8th – 12th, 2026 CENTQUATRE, Paris
April 18th – 19th, 2026 CC Maasmechelen, Maasmechelen
April 25th – 26th, 2026 Leietheater, Deinze
May 9th – 10th, 2026 CC Ter Dilft, Bornem
May 21st, 2026 ‘t Vondel, Halle
June 19th – 20th, 2026 De Spil, Roeselare
June 26th – 27th, 2026 Le Carreau, Forbach

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Between Frame and Art

How defining is a frame for a painting? What if you remove the frame? Or vice versa: what if you remove the artwork and just look at the frame? Frames explores this relationship between frame and art, placing Not Standing’s physical movement art in outdoor visual frames.

Alexander Vantournhout and his three co-performers focus once again on movement art in its purest form. Meticulously, the four performers build ever-changing body sculptures in the viewing frames. Bodies intertwine, hang from and climb on the frames, walk upside down, and defy both gravity and your imagination. Each movement is a continuous search for balance, focusing on cooperation and body control.

The observer can view all this from all sides: from the front, side, and even from below. Perspectives tilt and physical logic seems to disappear. Frames invites you on a trail along choreographic installations that challenge and blend art and viewing perspectives into physical poetry in the public space.

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Jan Martens – VOICE NOISE

The Gender of Sound

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.