Excited to share the official trailer of « PRENDS GARDE À TOI »
In this solo, I (accompanied by Pedro) explore how the superficial and sensorial can coexist in dance by playing with audience’s and performer’s expectations in performing arts. My circus background and evolvement into contemporary dance made me wonder about the influences and finalities of showing a body moving or performing.
« Prends garde à toi » (beware) questions a love dependency that influences the way performers might traditionally present themselves and try to reach perfection in order to please an audience, in dialogue with their inner-self, instinctive consideration. This in an intense and close collaboration with a musican that takes care to mirror the performer seamlessly. This work may make people relate to as not only in the arts to question how to find the balance between the real inner feelings, the reality and the concrete actions that are expected from us.
Love is a rebellious bird
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain
if it suits him to refuse.
Love is a gypsy’s child,
it has never, ever, known a law
love me not, then I love you
if I love you, you’d best beware
Credits:
Concept, Choreography & Interpretation:
NATHAN FELIX RIVOT
Music Composition :
@p._simoes
Costume : @phaecora
Video : @karel.tuytschaever@loreloyens
Geert Vanimpe
Montage/ Editing: @tijsjerevalk
‘Becoming otherwise’ @yulikobaya
For the duo exhibition ,becoming otherwise’ with @mountaincutters curated by @castor.collective and made happen by @kunsthalmechelen at @ikamechelen
Performers @nathan.feliOt@whycantsleepwell@lindyannis
Music @anatoleserret
Set Design @emilia67382
Service Il is a performance that takes part in two stories of the taxi driver and the care giver - exploring lines between trust and mistrust emerging when strangers find themselves brought into close proximity in a professional context, where one is requesting a service and the other is performing it to them. Drivers, caretakers, cleaners, movers - are often overlooked professions that require close physical confrontation with a stranger or share insight into their personal space, where one person is handed over the responsibility to take care of the other’s safety and well being.
Required to let go and hand over control, power dynamics within this exchange continuously shift, resulting in a sometimes symbiotic dependency between the serving and the serviced. From discomfort to harmony, Service I questions the trust we are willing to put into people we don’t know and the biases that come to play.
Performing & co movement directing The taxi driver story for amazing @yulikobaya in ‘becoming otherwise’ show
Rehearsals photographed by the wonderful @delvolgoluna
For the duo exhibition ,becoming otherwise’ with @mountaincutters curated by @castor.collective and made happen by @kunsthalmechelen at @ikamechelen
Concept & creation @yulikobaya
Performers @nathan.feliOt@whycantsleepwell@lindyannis
Music @anatoleserret
Set Design @emilia67382
Service Il is a performance that takes part in two stories of the taxi driver and the care giver - exploring lines between trust and mistrust emerging when strangers find themselves brought into close proximity in a professional context, where one is requesting a service and the other is performing it to them. Drivers, caretakers, cleaners, movers - are often overlooked professions that require close physical confrontation with a stranger or share insight into their personal space, where one person is handed over the responsibility to take care of the other’s safety and well being.
Required to let go and hand over control, power dynamics within this exchange continuously shift, resulting in a sometimes symbiotic dependency between the serving and the serviced. From discomfort to harmony, Service I questions the trust we are willing to put into people we don’t know and the biases that come to play.
To The Fullest, by @fallon_mayanja The performance, inspired by the work of Black, queer American composer Julius Eastman (1940-1990) proposes through voice and body an adaptation of his compositions Femenine and Masculine (1974).
Written for six performers, To The Fullest explores the relationship between gender and identity through the concept of the « glitch » developed by Legacy Russell. Deliberately nonlinear and elusive in its entirety, it offers an experience of fragmented polyphony. Through the repetition of movements based on the principles of accumulation and gradation central to Julius Eastman, Fallon Mayanja, Kishie Ajani Mofita, Kongi Mbunga, Nathan Felix-Rivot, Phantom Wizard, and Lázara Rosell Albear embody the transformative and self-generative potential of the glitch.
The layering of perspectives, narratives, and aesthetics unfolds an imagery that holds value both as an archive and as a prospective view.
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Concept, direction: @fallon_mayanja
Choreography, movement direction : @itswilliestark
Dance, movement: @ajani_da_punk , @kongi.23 , @nathan.feliOt
Music, sound design: @phantom.wizard , @lazara_ra , @fallon_mayanja
Scénography, Video installation, Light design : @juanaferrari_
Sculptures, documentation : @diogovonkreuz
Stylism: @madamecurien
Costume : @j.avedik
Curatorial text: @daisyr.less
Co-produced by @desingelartscentre
OTHELLO : A PLAY @hamiltonanthea
Such an honor to be part of this dream team ! 🎭
@hamiltonanthea ‘s first stage performance alongside long-term collaborator @delphine_gaborit
OTHELLO : A PLAY expands the performative possibilities of her sculptural and installation practice. Othello - the character, the icon, the play of the same name - is the starting point. Hamilton shows three figures playing, negotiating and wrestling with the limits of freedom, ambition and creation. She uses the possibility of the stage to unravel and re-imagine these dynamics, blurring the boundaries between the personal and the iconic. Othello: A Play once again demonstrates Hamilton’s fascination with various systems, codes and media outside the tradition of visual art.
Performers: @iamprince_s , @alphonseeklouuwantege
Programmer: @vandevelde.michiel@desingelartscentre
Curator and production manager: @anneclaireschmitz
Production assistant: @aernoudtceline
Technical director: Nicolas Oubraham
Musical arrangement: Andrew McDonnell
Costumes: Felix Chong, Manuel Vadillo Videography and live camera: @poujolapachole
In COME CLOSER @middelheimmuseum and @desingelartscenter explore the space between sculpture and performance art.
#FondazioneMemmo
Anthea Hamilton | Soft You
Curated by Alessio Antoniolli
“Soft You”, taken from the last monologue by Othello, in Shakespeare, reframes three cardinal points in Hamilton’s research: the Shakespearian’s protagonist, the city of Rome and the artist’s own practice. Starting from “Othello:
A Play”, her stage performance created in collaboration with Delphine Gaborit. Hamilton’s exhibition pushes the performative possibilities of her sculptural and installation-based research.
