My name is...
Brussels, Belgium
12 Nov '09
Three performers wander about a stage with a suitcase, yellow books and a guitar. They try to find a reason for their being there. But just like they haven't chosen their own names, they seem to get tangled within their own identities.
They stay together in a game where opportunities turn into failure and failure becomes an opportunity. With no drama or passionate explosions, they will accept the nothingness as the back-drop for their inner emptiness.
By means of songs, false discussions, forlorn gazes and plastic raincoats 'My name is...' tries to find and avoid answers to the beauty of boredom.
Background Information
During three residencies in 2008 the belgium singer-songwriter Niko Hafkensheid (Damaged goods/ Meg Stuart), and the spanish dancers Coral Ortega (Velvet/ Joanne Leighton) and Sara Sampelayo (Ultima vez/ Wim Vandekeybus) decided to put their creativity together inside a studio. The result of their mixing their skills is this piece. A performance difficult to classify, shifting in the borderline between rock-concert, dance and physical-theater. Inspired by the piece, 'The delicate ransom' came out, a dance-video with an existentialist discourse that has been screened in several festivals all along Europe (Movement on Screen- Manchester, Cinedans- Amsterdam, a.o.). Almost one year after its premiere, 'My name is...' comes back to Brussels, inside the festival 'Bits & pieces', in the Beursschouwburg.
Event Details
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- Aerowaves Candidates
- Dance Company
- Niko Hafkenscheid, Coral Ortega & Sara Sampelayo
- Theatre/Venue
- Beursschowuburg
- Choreographer
- Niko Hafkenscheid, Coral Ortega & Sara Sampelayo
- Address
- A. Ortsstraat 20 - 28.
Brussels
1000
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