• this kind of bird flies backwards

  How do you deal with moments of extreme joy and sadness - how does those make one feel alive? - This is the starting point for the very first solo, This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards, of choreographer and dancer Natalia Pieczuro. Pieczuro inspired herself by personal experiences and stories of other people - those who are not afraid of being alive.Extremes exist very close to each-other. According to Pieczuro, the way you put those into the perspective, will give a meaning to your life

• THE SEA WITHIN

  Having finished her highly acclaimed ‘triptych of the ecstatic body’ – comprising It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend, AH/HA and We’re pretty fuckin’ far from okay – Lisbeth Gruwez is changing course. The eruptive choreographies that established her reputation are now making space for incessantly swirling magma. The Sea Within is a magnetising dance performance in which Gruwez no longer wants to order the chaos, but lets the chaos create or become its own order. Still just as sharp and intense, but no longer zooming in on individuals, she lets ten dancers dissolve in a grand, breathing landscape. For the first time in her career Gruwez is not dancing her own choreography but selected a group of ten female dancers. Ten powerful lotus flowers that are symbols of connection. Together, they bring a new, contemporary ritual in which the ‘we’ embraces the ‘I’. As usual, Maarten Van Cauwenberghe is writing the score to this performance, assisted by Elko Blijweert and Bjorn Eriksson. Minimalistic synths and a tingling game with frequencies push their electronic sound design to the bottom of your senses.

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