Common Ground
Platform-K & Benjamin Vandewalle
dates
Sat 14.03, 00:51
Sat 14.03, 00:51
location
De Studio
duration
70 min.
Info
One loves jump music and uninterrupted humour, another ballet and homemade love longs, whilst the third observes the world with his camera and is secretly an accomplished beatboxer.
Choreographer Benjamin Vandewalle is fascinated by encounters and what they do to your view of the world. In Common Ground he meets two professional dancers with a disability. Together they search for common ground. They share a love of dance, and through movement they get to know each other better. Who is the other dancer? Who am I myself? In what ways are we similar and where do the differences lie? And above all: what can we learn from each other?
Credits
from & with Benjamin Vandewalle, Kobe Wyffels, Hannah Bekemans & Fulco Ottervanger | creation Benjamin Vandewalle | music Fulco Ottervanger | costumes Sofie Durnez | light design/technique Marlies Jacques | outside eye Charlotte De Somviele | production Platform-K & Benjamin Vandewalle | coproduction Vooruit
Jury
A production like Common Ground forces us to ignore preconceptions and reject compartmentalization, to remove where possible the boundaries between ‘I and the other’, and to acknowledge that they cannot be.
—Jury report
Pers
When you see Kobe and Hannah dancing, you see something truly authentic.
—Het Nieuwsblad