Location
Beeldsmederij De Maan
Minderbroedersgang 3
2800 Mechelen
België
Concept & choreography: Alexander Vantournhout
Created with & performed by: Philomène Authelet, Tina Afiyan-Breiova, Noémi Devaux, Ariadna Gironès Mata & Aymara Parola
Research collaborator: Emmi Väisänen
Dramaturgy: Rudi Laermans & Sébastien Hendrickx
Rehearsal director: Maria Ferreira Silva, Axel Guérin, Lodie Kardouss, Anneleen Keppens, Lise Vachon & Esse Vanderbruggen
Vocal coach & music dramaturgy: Fabienne Seveillac
Light design: Harry Cole
Costumes: Sofie Durnez
Videography: Stanislav Dobak
Sound design: Bob Hermans
Special thanks to: Kim Amankwaa, Willy Cauwelier, Euridike De Beul, Tom de With & Astrid Sweeney
Company manager: Esther Maas
Technical production: Bram Vandeghinste & Rinus Samyn
Production & tour manager: Aïda Gabriëls
Diffusion: Frans Brood Productions
Production: not standing
Coproduction: Arts Center Voo?uit, Ghent (BE), Cirque-Théâtre Elbeuf (FR), Le CENTQUATRE, Paris (FR), Theater op de Markt - Dommelhof, Neerpelt (BE), Theater Freiburg (DE), Charleroi Danse (BE), Lithuanian Dance Information Center, Vilnius (LT), Peeping Tom, Brussels (BE), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU)
With the support of the Flemish Government and Tax Shelter
Alexander Vantournhout is artist-in-residence in Arts Centre Voo?uit in Ghent and associated artist of le CENTQUATRE Paris and Cirque-théâtre Elbeuf. He is cultural ambassador of the city of Roeselare and is also supported by Fondation BNP Paribas for the development of his projects.
When people or animals move along a loose surface of sand or soil, they leave traces. These prints made by feet or paws ‘describe’ what’s underfoot and remind us of the original meaning of the word choreography: ‘to write with movement’.
Contre-jour is set on a stretch of sand. Five performers walk, run, hop, move like cats on hands and feet to create a diversity of ‘im-pressions’ - only to erase them to make way for new symbols, new choreography. But also to vanish, because leaving traces can be dangerous: you might be entering someone’s property illegally or trying to pass a border unseen.
In Contre-jour, the movements leave impressions, in the loose sand but also in the spectator’s memory. Five bodies pass by through the desolate landscape, as if it were a film. Five individuals helping one another as a group in collective movements, solos and duets. In dance and live singing. Solace and resistance reverberate through the interplay of togetherness and solitude.
Contre-jour is the latest performance by not standing, the company led by Alexander Vantournhout, where every creation originates from fundamental movement study. After the solo Aneckxander, the duet Through the Grapevine and the location performance Screws, all selected for TheaterFestival, Alexander Vantournhout now - for the first time - chooses to fully embrace the role of choreographer and gives the stage to a cast of five performers with diverse backgrounds in dance, musical, circus and more.
Concept & choreography: Alexander Vantournhout
Created with & performed by: Philomène Authelet, Tina Afiyan-Breiova, Noémi Devaux, Ariadna Gironès Mata & Aymara Parola
Research collaborator: Emmi Väisänen
Dramaturgy: Rudi Laermans & Sébastien Hendrickx
Rehearsal director: Maria Ferreira Silva, Axel Guérin, Lodie Kardouss, Anneleen Keppens, Lise Vachon & Esse Vanderbruggen
Vocal coach & music dramaturgy: Fabienne Seveillac
Light design: Harry Cole
Costumes: Sofie Durnez
Videography: Stanislav Dobak
Sound design: Bob Hermans
Special thanks to: Kim Amankwaa, Willy Cauwelier, Euridike De Beul, Tom de With & Astrid Sweeney
Company manager: Esther Maas
Technical production: Bram Vandeghinste & Rinus Samyn
Production & tour manager: Aïda Gabriëls
Diffusion: Frans Brood Productions
Production: not standing
Coproduction: Arts Center Voo?uit, Ghent (BE), Cirque-Théâtre Elbeuf (FR), Le CENTQUATRE, Paris (FR), Theater op de Markt - Dommelhof, Neerpelt (BE), Theater Freiburg (DE), Charleroi Danse (BE), Lithuanian Dance Information Center, Vilnius (LT), Peeping Tom, Brussels (BE), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU)
With the support of the Flemish Government and Tax Shelter
Alexander Vantournhout is artist-in-residence in Arts Centre Voo?uit in Ghent and associated artist of le CENTQUATRE Paris and Cirque-théâtre Elbeuf. He is cultural ambassador of the city of Roeselare and is also supported by Fondation BNP Paribas for the development of his projects.
Location
Beeldsmederij De Maan
Minderbroedersgang 3
2800 Mechelen
België