Foreshadow
Alexander Vantournhout / not standing
dates
Sun 08.09, 20:30
Mon 09.09, 20:30
Basic tarif: €24 / +65: €22 / -26: €20
Kansentarief: €4
location
DE SINGEL / Rode Zaal
duration
75 min.
language
Without words
Info
Jury quote:
"With Foreshadow, Alexander Vantournhout creates a tour de force that embodies the fragile moving power of a collective and explores a completely unique dance language. Once again, this choreographer put out one of the best productions of the season."
After VanThorhout, in which Alexander Vantournhout appeared solo on stage, not standing returns with a group show featuring eight acrobat-dancers. The performers move like gears of a collective body to the tunes of experimental rock music. Together they explore quasi-impossible balances, challenge each other and defy gravity.
With the tightly orchestrated chaotic movement landscapes of Foreshadow, Alexander Vantournhout takes a new step in his exploration of the relationships between gravity, movement, balance, and spatiality. In addition to the floor, which played a prominent role in SCREWS and Through the Grapevine, the wall now also becomes a dance partner.
review
“Foreshadow is op adembenemende wijze geperfectioneerd wat leidt tot een hypnotiserende voorstelling. De haast onmogelijke doch menselijke acrobatiek lijkt zelfs de dansers zelf voortdurend te verrassen.”
★★★★
—Le Soir
credits
Concept & choreography: Alexander Vantournhout
Created with and performed by: Noémi Devaux, Axel Guérin, Patryk Kłos, Nick Robaey, Josse Roger, Emmi Väisänen/Margaux Lissandre, Esse Vanderbruggen & Alexander Vantournhout/Chia-Hung Chung
Dramaturgy: Rudi Laermans & Sébastien Hendrickx
Rehearsal director: Sandy Williams
Costumes: Patty Eggerickx assisted by: Isabelle Airaud
Music: This Heat
Light design: Bert Van Dijck
Sound: Ruben Nachtergaele
Technicians on tour: Helmi Demeulemeester, Jonathan Maes, Bram Vandeghinste & Bert Van Dijck
Tour planning: Frans Brood Productions
Company management: Esther Maas
Technical coordination: Bram Vandeghinste
Production & tourmanagement: Barbara Falter, Aïda Gabriëls & Kiki Verschueren
Production: not standing
Co-production: le CENTQUATRE, Paris (FR), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Ghent (BE), Julidans, Amsterdam (NL), Biennale de la Danse, Lyon (FR), Le Maillon, Strasbourg (FR), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (BE), MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard (FR), La Passerelle, scène nationale de Saint-Brieuc (FR), Theater Freiburg (DE) & Le Carreau Scène nationale de Forbach et de l’Est mosellan (FR).
Special thanks to: De Grote Post, Ostend (BE), Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie / La Brèche à Cherbourg & le Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf (FR), Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR), Urte Groblyte, Julien Monty, Bjorn Verlinde & Katherina Lindekens
Created with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, via Flanders Tax Shelter