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Kris Verdonck

Box

PREMIERE

Box is an installation: a glass cube contains the strongest possible light source that can be concentrated on such a small surface; the project was developed in collaboration with engineers of Philips Lightning (Turnhout). The spectators, equipped with protective, dark glasses, are led into the room. As they watch the light, they hear the voice of the actor Johan Leysen who speaks, in German, the apocalyptic texts by Heiner Müller Verkommenes Ufer and Landschaft mit Argonauten. The light that normally allows us to see, here blinds us. It could be the light flash of a nuclear explosion, a never ceasing, eye-burning lightning that announces the end of the world.

The Bacterial Tour, a hyperactive performance with a powerful live soundtrack. Project 1 is a performance in which identity, rituals and language are of central importance. Its theme is ‘the deconstruction of a punk/rock band’.

A Las Vegas showgirl emerges from a month lost in the forest – muddy, disheveled and more animal than human. Somebody explains the expenses involved in being authentic. One woman reads pheromones. Another explains her ‘instinct for failure’.

In All Natural the stage is home to several odd-bods from the fringes. Armed with excuses, promises and outbursts, they leak and slide into each other. Hoping for a pure and un-corrupted state, they search for limits on behaving with an audience. McIntosh began All Natural by picking at the myth of naturalness and our craving for it - in everything from personality to food. As if our instincts, however deeply buried and warped, might be trusted to lead us out of trouble. 'I have an instinct for failure, I can smell it coming. It's a natural...

A Las Vegas showgirl emerges from a month lost in the forest – muddy, disheveled and more animal than human. Somebody explains the expenses involved in being authentic. One woman reads pheromones. Another explains her ‘instinct for failure’.

In All Natural the stage is home to several odd-bods from the fringes. Armed with excuses, promises and outbursts, they leak and slide into each other. Hoping for a pure and un-corrupted state, they search for limits on behaving with an audience. McIntosh began All Natural by picking at the myth of naturalness and our craving for it - in everything from personality to food. As if our instincts, however deeply buried and warped, might be trusted to lead us out of trouble. 'I have an instinct for failure, I can smell it coming. It's a natural...

A Las Vegas showgirl emerges from a month lost in the forest – muddy, disheveled and more animal than human. Somebody explains the expenses involved in being authentic. One woman reads pheromones. Another explains her ‘instinct for failure’.

In All Natural the stage is home to several odd-bods from the fringes. Armed with excuses, promises and outbursts, they leak and slide into each other. Hoping for a pure and un-corrupted state, they search for limits on behaving with an audience. McIntosh began All Natural by picking at the myth of naturalness and our craving for it - in everything from personality to food. As if our instincts, however deeply buried and warped, might be trusted to lead us out of trouble. 'I have an instinct for failure, I can smell it coming. It's a natural...

The Bacterial Tour, a hyperactive performance with a powerful live soundtrack. Project 1 is a performance in which identity, rituals and language are of central importance. Its theme is ‘the deconstruction of a punk/rock band’.

The Bacterial Tour, a hyperactive performance with a powerful live soundtrack. Project 1 is a performance in which identity, rituals and language are of central importance. Its theme is ‘the deconstruction of a punk/rock band’.

Over the years, the young performer Hans Bryssinck has accumulated snapshots of friends and family and records of his projects. In Silent Manifesto you see a slide-show using several projectors. In between times Bryssinck tells of minor incidents and greater events.
An intimate performance that reflects on the little idiosyncrasies of the human mind that enable you to see things in a different way.

Simon Siegmann is inviting audiences to view his Agora , an installation and place for people to meet and talk in the city. It is a structure comprising a staircase and a large raised stage where “its purpose is deliberately incomplete, awaiting a human presence.” Simon Siegmann is inviting three artists – choreographer Pierre Droulers, composer George van Dam and writer Jean-Michel Espitallier – to take possession of this bare space and transform it into a performance venue. Dance, music and words bring the public space to life.

Alix Eynaudi + Alice Chauchat

Crystalll

Crystalll was originally created as a black box performance,
referring directly to the history of stage representations of female
bodies, and using light effects to emphasize the magical appearance of
an “unreachable being”.

The white cube version invests more on the position of the dancer-as-object, proposing a similar perspective on the sculptures and the dancer. The spectator is invited to observe images, situations, and one's own expectations towards beauty, femininity, and a dancer that becomes an object of aesthetic satisfaction. Shifting the performance to the exhibition space brings about the spectacular expectations towards art, let them be plastic or choreographic; Crystalll reveals modes of enhancing mystery, producing awe, in the meantime as...

Over the years, the young performer Hans Bryssinck has accumulated snapshots of friends and family and records of his projects. In Silent Manifesto you see a slide-show using several projectors. In between times Bryssinck tells of minor incidents and greater events.
An intimate performance that reflects on the little idiosyncrasies of the human mind that enable you to see things in a different way.

The Bacterial Tour, a hyperactive performance with a powerful live soundtrack. Project 1 is a performance in which identity, rituals and language are of central importance. Its theme is ‘the deconstruction of a punk/rock band’.

The Bacterial Tour, a hyperactive performance with a powerful live soundtrack. Project 1 is a performance in which identity, rituals and language are of central importance. Its theme is ‘the deconstruction of a punk/rock band’.

The Bacterial Tour, a hyperactive performance with a powerful live soundtrack. Project 1 is a performance in which identity, rituals and language are of central importance. Its theme is ‘the deconstruction of a punk/rock band’.

The Bacterial Tour, a hyperactive performance with a powerful live soundtrack. Project 1 is a performance in which identity, rituals and language are of central importance. Its theme is ‘the deconstruction of a punk/rock band’.

Sterven in Stijl (To die in style) is a solo by Hans Bryssinck and Dolores Bouckaert. Sterven in Stijl shows an actress wandering round between various scenes that increasingly head for her death: fragments of memories, lost loves and a last confession.

The Bacterial Tour, a hyperactive performance with a powerful live soundtrack. Project 1 is a performance in which identity, rituals and language are of central importance. Its theme is ‘the deconstruction of a punk/rock band’.

A Las Vegas showgirl emerges from a month lost in the forest – muddy, disheveled and more animal than human. Somebody explains the expenses involved in being authentic. One woman reads pheromones. Another explains her ‘instinct for failure’.

In All Natural the stage is home to several odd-bods from the fringes. Armed with excuses, promises and outbursts, they leak and slide into each other. Hoping for a pure and un-corrupted state, they search for limits on behaving with an audience. McIntosh began All Natural by picking at the myth of naturalness and our craving for it - in everything from personality to food. As if our instincts, however deeply buried and warped, might be trusted to lead us out of trouble. 'I have an instinct for failure, I can smell it coming. It's a natural...

LOOM is a choreography for four female performers.
And/ or a video installation.

LOOM questions the appearing/disappearing of the body and introduces a gradual revealing of the body; it’s a move from a barely visible shadow that is occupying the whole performance stage thanks to motion.

Duration of the performance: 30 minutes And/ or a presentation in loops of the video installation. "LOOM" shows three large 'boxes' made of hundreds of meters of elastic stretched out over metallic structures, within which the dancers are imprisoned. A faint light emanates from each of them. Slowly the spectator can see shadows apperaring. First the shadows are fragmented, almost abstract; it is female bodies leaning naked behind the screens that become increasingly visible as the light surrounding them is increasing. The moves of...