How can we keep alive the work of one of the great figures of post-modern dance? For the first time in Belgium, the Trisha Brown Dance Company and choreographer Noé Soulier unveil a programme that moves back and forth between eras. It is an opportunity to become acquainted with the singular writing of Trisha Brown who died in 2017, a choreographer who defied the principles of modern dance to create choreographic writing of dynamic fluidity and lightness. The programme consists of two repertory pieces: Working Title (1985), which challenges the usual supports available to performers and plays with imbalance, and For M.G.: The Movie (1991), reflecting her choreographic research on neutrality while seeking purity of movement. Then in In the Fall Noé Soulier enters into dialogue with the choreographer’s legacy, confronting her principles of mathematical composition with living archives in the shape of performers from the Trisha Brown Dance Company.
In the Fall (2023, 25')
Chorégraphie : Noé Soulier / Musique : Florian Hecker / Lumière : Victor Burel, Noé Soulier / Costumes Kaye Voyce / I
Working Title (1985, 28')
Chorégraphie : Trisha Brown / Musique : Peter Zummo, extraits de Six Songs (Sci-Fi, Slow Heart, Song VI, Song IV) / Interprété par : The Peter Zummo Orchestra, Mustafa Khaliq Ahmed (percussion), Guy Klucevsek (accordéon), Dave Phillips (basse), Bill Ruyle (marimba et table), Peter Zummo (trombone) / Costumes : Elizabeth Cannon / Lumière : Beverly Emmons
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For M.G.: The Movie (1991, 36')
Chorégraphie : Trisha Brown / Musique : Alvin Curran / Costumes et décors : Trisha Brown / Lumière : Spencer Brown, Trisha Brown
Interprètes : Cecily Campbell, Savannah Gaillard, Rochelle Jamila, Burr Johnson, Catherine Kirk, Ashley Merker, Patrick Needham, Jennifer Payán, Spencer Weidie
Autour d’un verre en amont d’un spectacle, Elodie Verlinden, chercheuse en danse à l’ULB, et Celia Diaz, responsable de la médiation à Charleroi danse, vous invitent à rentrer dans les arcanes d’une œuvre, à ouvrir la boîte à outils d’un·e chorégraphe, à parcourir l’histoire de la danse dans une approche didactique et accessible.
Les Apéro danse sont gratuits mais la réservation est conseillée