Screws
Alexander Vantournhout / Not Standing
dates
Fri 13.03, 23:44
Fri 13.03, 23:44
Fri 13.03, 23:44
Fri 13.03, 23:44
Fri 13.03, 23:44
Fri 13.03, 23:44
location
KANAL
duration
60 min.
language
Language No Problem
Info
Usually a bowling ball has only one function: to knock over as many pins as possible at the bowling alley. But what if you remove the bowling ball from its usual environment?
Screws turns around the relationship between the body and the object in various ways. Different objects attached to the body either provide support or throw the body off balance. In this way gravity can be overcome or enhanced. With the help of ice shoes, bowling balls, anti-gravity shoes and other objects, the performers of Screws defy the laws of physics.
Together with four dancer-acrobats Vantournhout guides you as spectator along a route of reverberating short performances: from solos and duets to pointy group choreographies.
This site-specific performance invites you out of your comfortable seat and sets you in motion. Stroll around and let yourself be carried away by these exceptional miniature compositions.
Credits
choreography & circography Alexander Vantournhout | creation & performance Emmi Väisänen, Jessica Eirado Enes, Alexander Vantournhout, Axel Guérin, Alexandros Anastasiadis | dramaturgy Sébastien Hendrickx | intellectual in residence Rudi Laermans | choreographic help Anneleen Keppens & Martin Kilvady | costumes Anne-Catherine Kunz | technique Rinus Samyn | light design Tim Oelbrandt | technical design Bert Van Dijck, Rinus Samyn, Tom Reynaerts & Tom Daniels | constructor Willy Cauwelier | photos Bart Grietens | in coproduction with Vooruit (BE), MA (FR), PERPLX (BE) & Circa (FR) | residencies Vooruit (BE), Platforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie/La Brêche à Cherbourg-Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf (FR), Cultuurcentrum Brugge (BE), Wood Cube (BE), Workspacebrussels (BE), MA (FR) & Circa (FR) | thanks to Lore Missine, Veerle Mans, Bauke Lievens, Maria Madeira, Lien Vanbossele, Monuments Nationaux de France & Simon Pons-Rotbardt | with the support of Flemish Government | production NOT STANDING vzw
Jury
Screws is a direct hit by Alexander Vantournhout. Because of the craftsmanship that unmistakably comes from it and the artistic ingenuity on top of that. But also simply for the almost childlike pleasure that you experience as a viewer.
—#jury20
Pers
Screws is more than circus. Screws is more than dance. It is something that surpasses both.
—Danser Canal Historique
Screws, an ode to physical intelligence.
—Etcetera
Fans of bowling know that the ball can weigh up to seven kilograms. So Alexander Vantournhout
thought: “The perfect dancing partner!” In Screws, he dances a duet with a bowling ball – which he
holds in front of him with his arms outstretched – and has choreographed a love-dance in
snowshoes. Strike!
—Knack Focus