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14
Jan 2022
20:30
15
Jan 2022
20:30

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. 


 

Contre-jour

Alexander Vantournhout / not standing

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Contre-jour Alexander Vantournhout / not standing - (c) Bart Grietens

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


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