GET A GRIP: Friday 14 april
Femke Gyselinck | Anna Franziska Jäger & Nathan Ooms
Femke Gyselinck/GRIP & Platform-K: Change of Plans
Choreographer Femke Gyselinck, together with Zanne Boon and Oskar Stalpaert, two dancers of the inclusive dance company Platform-K, walk the bumpy tension between choreography as a series of agreements (or plans) and how those plans then come to life. They find that their plans are immediately thrown into disarray as soon as you dance together on a stage with an irregular shape and erratic height differences.
The title of the performance refers to a stanza from My Future, a song by Billie Eilish in which she looks back on the past and looks hopefully forward to the future. Femke Gyselinck invited not Billie Eilish, but musicians Hendrik Lasure (piano, keyboard) and Adia Vanheerentals (sax). They wrote an original soundtrack for the performance and performed it live. A duet between piano and sax, but also between dance and music.
Together, the five performers seek playful answers to the question raised by the title. How do you change a dance plan? In Change of Plans you experience how exciting it is to watch dancers who have to adjust and tune their plans all the time. No sabotage, just an invitation between three dancers who each in their own way already deal with the given choreography very differently.
tickets: Femke Gyselinck + Anna Franziska Jäger & Nathan Ooms (double bill) € 20/18/10/4
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Change of Plans
Femke Gyselinck concept | Zanne Boon, Femke Gyselinck, Hendrik Lasure, Oskar Stalpaert, Aida Vanheerentals uitvoering | muziek Hendrik Lasure (compositie, piano, keys), Aida Vanheerentals (compositie, sax) | Aslı Çiçek scenografie | Nel Maertens & Veronika Vimpelova kostuums | Elke Verachtert lichtontwerp | Milan Van Doren geluid | productie Platform-K, GRIP | co-productie VIERNULVIER (Gent, BE), kunstencentrum nona (Mechelen, BE), KAAP (Brugge/Oostende, BE), STUK (Leuven, BE), Perpodium | met de steun van de Vlaamse Overheid, Tax Shelter Maatregel van de Belgische Federale Overheid, Cronos Invest
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Ambient Theatre Fury
van & met Anna Franziska Jäger & Nathan Ooms | kostuums, scenografie & inside eye Carly Rae Heathcote | dramaturgie Bojana Cvejić | tekst-coaching Bryana Fritz | techniek Koen Goossens & Rune Floryn | productie CAMPO | coproductie TAZ & Sabam For Culture – Jong Werk beurs TAZ, Kunstenwerkplaats Brussel | met de steun van VGC & De Grote Post Oostende
65 minutes - English spoken
Anna Franziska Jäger & Nathan Ooms: Ambient Theatre Fury
With Ambient Theatre Fury, Anna Franziska Jäger and Nathan Ooms continue their artistic investigation into the relationship between digital media and subjectivity in crisis. After Bartlebabe, which unraveled the individual in a virtuoso monologue, Ambient Theatre Fury marks the next step: the search for a dialogue between flamboyant and anxious figures.
Jäger and Ooms start from the observation that contemporary culture is increasingly permeated by so-called "ambient" experiences. Netflix series, popular songs, as well as the streams of our social media feeds: they arise from a specific intersection of frivolous pleasure with banal seduction. They generate a form of absence; it is a kind of pseudo-activity that numbs the sense of time and demands of the subject a certain impassivity. What happens when this ambient quality is magnified and amplified so that it rages furiously across the scene without restraint?
“When emotions become memes: Ambient Theatre Fury astutely analyzes digital alienation.” De Morgen
“In their crystal-clear form, Jäger and Ooms find an expression of the most contemporary (non-) emotions, yet at their core they also tap into something timeless. That balance is beautifully.” Etcetera
