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Alexander Vantournhout – FRAMES

  • 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

© Bart Grietens

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.