L’après-midi d’un foehnVersion 1
L’après-midi d’un foehn Version 1 invites us to wonder, before what is impalpable and brilliantly tamed in a performance/installation, as if it were pieces of matter:
The multidisciplinary artist Phia Ménard finally comes to the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles with one of the most emblematic pieces of her repertoire: L’après-midi d’un foehn Version 1. In the first opus of the Pièces de vent (‘Wind plays’) cycle, the performer looks at the air that surrounds us. Here, the material to which we rarely pay attention, becomes an artistic object in its own right, opening wide the doors of a poetic and aerial imagination. The foehn is that vigorous, hot, dry, “snow-eating” southerly wind, whose aggravating effect on mood and behavior is documented by the University of Munich Ludwig-Maximilians. Based on the influence of matter on our mood swings, Phia Ménard creates a utopia in which humans control the wind.
On the stage, to the sound of three musical works by Claude Debussy – L’après-midi d’un faune, Nocturnes and Dialogue du vent et de la mer –
a ballet master surrounded by ventilators gives life to a cloud of plastic bags transformed into puppets that fly up, descend, turn and twirl under the effect of the currents of the silent vortex.
In this volatile parable, there is a sensitive and critical dimension: Phia Ménard’s gestures relate to transformation, she erodes matter and individuals; each new gesture creates radiant, dancing worlds, where the human and the non-human are one. Something interlinks them.
Ultimately, L’après-midi d’un foehn Version 1 invites us to wonder, before what is impalpable and brilliantly tamed in a performance/installation, as if it were pieces of matter: Isn’t air the real matter of life?
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Brussels
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L’après-midi d’un foehnVersion 1
Taste of friendship
"One of the greatest happinesses in this life is friendship, and one of the happinesses of friendship is knowing someone to whom confiding a secret is possible."
Is there anything stronger than love? Calm and less dangerous? A feeling that would make us feel safe? No tragedies, no jealousies, no deadly interruptions, but something that would comfort our souls and hearts? Would this be so simple? Taste of friendship is the story of a man and a woman who will build a strong friendship. They are also two artists from different backgrounds who will discover themselves in life, but also through their joint creative work. It is love in the sense of the "agapé" of the ancient Greeks, which has been liberated by Eros and is always benevolent. However, this is not an entirely pink story. Alex and Luca live and dance moments of pure happiness, but also misunderstandings. There will be ups and downs, happiness and blues. But for sure there will be no regrets at the end of the day.
Direction and choreography : Luca Arrigoni
Petit Théâtre Mercelis
Ixelles
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Taste of friendship
Elisabeth gets her way - Jan Martens/GRIP
In this dance portrait, Jan Martens pays tribute to Elisabeth Chojnacka, the Polish 20th-century cult harpsichordist, who inspired the greatest composers, including Ligeti, Xenakis and Górecki with her incredible talent and who collaborated with Lucinda Childs.
Through an alternation between dance and sound interviews of her close friends, he navigates the movement the way she slalomed with her fingertips through centuries of music history. Jan Martens plays with his body in the same spirit as Elisabeth Chojnacka played the harpsichord, with the "fire of life" to quote Ligeti. While dancing, he stays close to the scores and their colourful personalities. He indulges in the quasi-mathematically complex rhythms that allow for repetition, minimalism and trance. For they have this in common: transforming the performance into a creative gesture.
Les Brigittines
Brussels
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Elisabeth gets her way - Jan Martens/GRIP
Lens Dans Festival #2
Recyclart
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
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Lens Dans Festival #2
Empire State of Corpo
Zinnema
Anderlecht
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Empire State of Corpo
BoyToy
Zinnema
Anderlecht
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BoyToy
Le complot du quotidien - Dame de Pic/Cie Karine Ponties
Prolific and relentlessly working, Karine Ponties draws her strength from the inexhaustible breeding ground of our states, our thoughts, our intuitions, and our sensations. Captured in the daily life that encloses and encumbers us, whispering behind our backs and suddenly catching up with us.
If we were to mingle the words of Karine Ponties and Georges Perec, they would say together: ‘We are never prepared for the world. Living means moving from one space to another while trying not to crash into it. You have to sneak into the breach and hold your breath, so nothing can escape.’
Le complot du quotidien transforms the triviality of movement into an absurd universe. The two performers juggle with the overabundant impediments and accidents in an attempt to magnify them in the centre of the stage, turning them upside down, transforming them, and imbuing them with fantasy. This is an invitation to contemplate the world and its day-to-day reality with surprise, humour, and intensity.
Les Brigittines
Brussels
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Le complot du quotidien - Dame de Pic/Cie Karine Ponties
M·Ondes - Cie mala hierba·Marielle Morales
The dance of sound: this is how one could describe the work of Marielle Morales, who is fascinated by waves, the invisible, and resonance. Each time, she produces atmospheric creations in which movement, theatricality, visuality, light, and sound interact.
In order to give substance to M·Ondes, three women, three islands at once distinct and connected, sway, morph and become intertwined. In the echo of founding myths, sound sculpts materials, while waves shape moods, states, and the language of bodies.
Forming a delicate and surrealist tableau, this new creation will once again bear an ode to porosity and the power of collective impulses.
Les Brigittines
Brussels
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M·Ondes - Cie mala hierba·Marielle Morales
REvolutions 2349
One revolves around the axis of the earth between continents, while the other revolves around his own body axis. This spatial and essential necessity unites choreographer Arco Renz and dancer Danielle Allouma in a focal point for the creation of this solo.
Referring to the frequency 2349.32 Hz, attributed to the musical note RE, and to the body in rotation, REvolutions 2349 seeks to transform our sensory perceptions and allows our imagination to transcend their anchorage.
Three spirals – dance, music, and light – unfold on stage in a hypnotic interplay where space and time are tangible forces at work, and from which a compelling structural framework emanates. An archetype of dance and spiritual customs, this revolution of the body, servile in its freedom and free in its servitude, is as old as the history of mankind.
And like a cursor in this timeline, Danielle Allouma’s dancing body negotiates its freedom of movement as a tribute to change and to our longing for emancipation.
Les Brigittines
Brussels
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REvolutions 2349
BALEC - Chloé Beillevaire & Sabina Scarlat
Everything has disappeared: all that remains is a black and white desert where two jesters feel bored. There is no one left to amuse, no one left to mock. The two women manipulate pairs of tights strewn around them to the point of madness. They mistreat these malleable objects as part of their existential quest. However, the longer they unravel the problem, the more they become entangled, backward and forwards until finally losing the plot completely.
Chloé Beillevaire and Sabina Scarlat conjure up the female figure of the Court’s Jester to allow our anxieties to assume a spectacular consistency in the face of the void.
They deploy every trick in the book to save us from dizziness and guide the audience into a joyful nothingness, aided by comedy.
Les Brigittines
Brussels
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BALEC - Chloé Beillevaire & Sabina Scarlat
La Fleur de l'être
"La Fleur de l’être " traces the path of a quest for identity, a delicate journey from one truth to another, to reach what is called the ineffable beauty of the soul.
Boys, one girl. One boy, two girls. A mirror. Who is who? Mixed identity, lost, found. Hidden elements are revealed and incite to become oneself. Encounters, looks and then diffuse feelings, fear of the other, desire to be. The other, his mirror. Masculine... Feminine? Inside, outside. Exploring, discovering the body, the gender... Impressions, sensations, liberalisation. Return. Hidden identity, singular identity, plural identity, new identity.
"La Fleur de l’être " traces the path of a quest for identity, a delicate journey from one truth to another, to reach what is called the ineffable beauty of the soul.
With Luca Arrigoni, Alexandra Grillo and Thibaut Verspreet
Théâtre Molière
Ixelles
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La Fleur de l'être
La Pastorale
Théâtre de Wolubilis
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
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La Pastorale