I/II/III/IIII
I/II/III/IIII is a new theatrical installation by the performance artist Kris Verdonck. Four ‘identical’ female dancers hang like marionettes in a huge ‘machine’. Together with them performance artist Kris Verdonck generated a passage of choreography: a solo, a duet, a trio and a pas de quatre. They sought the greatest possible freedom from the machine, but sooner or later it sent them in the direction it decided upon. The images evoked by I/II/III/IIII are confusing, many-layered and ambiguous: they remind us of the white birds in Swan Lake and also of animal carcases being dragged along, hovering angels, falling human bodies and everything in between.
Credits
concept & direction: Kris Verdonck
dramaturgy: Marianne Van Kerkhoven (Kaaitheater)
with: Annabelle Chambon, Claire Croizé, Alix Eynaudi, Gemma Higginbotham, Nikoleta Rafaelisova, Eveline Van Bauwel
machinists: Hendrik De Smedt, Serge Grootaert, Simon Salaert, Bart Verhaegen
music: Stefaan Quix
light design: Luc Schaltin
costumes: Shampoo & Conditioner
construction: Hans Luyten (PlasmaMagma), Dirk Lauwers (dna)
production: Margarita Production for stilllab vzw
thanks to: Han Wannemakers (Frontline Rigging), Raphaël Rubbens, Theater Gasthuis (NL)
co-production: Kaaitheater (B), Kunstencentrum Vooruit (B), Buda kunstencentrum (B)
with the support of: de Vlaamse Overheid, de Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie