tuesday 19 april > saturday 23 april – 8.30pm>12am
Sara Manente (I/B)
Spectacles
live research, italian première
Spectacles is a research which takes as its starting point the distance between language and experience, specifically the experience of dance and performance. Following a critical line of the investigation into the overcapitalization of language as its transformation into an oppressive tool, the research aims to restore and emancipate the relation between language and dance from a point of view of performativity. What are the limits of language for speaking about aesthetic experience? What do we talk about when we talk about dance? How do we talk about something we don’t know how to talk about? Which language performs a choreography? How can we move with(out) words? For the duration of Peng V, the project will take the form of an ongoing set for a film that documents reactions and experiences of spectators and artists during the week. The set iact as an invitation to recreate again and again – like a loop constantly going back to the present, seeking for the ultimate regression. Spectacles at Live Arts Week will feed another side of the project which bears the same name and which consists of writing dance pieces to read.
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by Sara Manente
assistance Christophe Albertijn
in dialogue with Lucia Amara
set design Canedicoda
production Hiros and Cabra
in collaboration with Xing, BUDA, Bains Connective, DePianofabriek, TinoLab
with the support of the Flemish Government
Sara Manente, italian choreographer and performance artist, based in Brussels. She began practising ballet at an early age. She graduated with a degree in Media and Communication from the university of Bologna and completed a post-graduate in Performing Arts at a.p.t/A.pass in Antwerp. Since 2004 she has made performances, videos and research projects of her own and in collaboration, namely with Marcos Simoes, Ondine Cloez, Michiel Reynaert, Alessandra Bergamaschi, Constanze Schellow, Hwang Kim and the members of the non-profit organization Cabra, that she co-founded. Since 2009 she has been working on stage for Juan Dominguez, Kate McIntosh, Aitana Cordero Vico, Jaime Llopis, Nada Gambier and Gaëtan Bulourde. Her creations, among others: Democratic forest (research project and workshops), To park (performance installation), Some performances (video, Lawaai means Hawaai (trio after two previous projects on noise and dance), Grand Tourists (experimental in-situ project), Not not a lecture (lecture performance and publication), Faire un four (quartet on the making of 4 similar and 4 different), x: I liked B better/ y: I am 29 too (telepathic experiment between North and South Korea), This place (a series of performances based on ESP and tarot reading with seven different artistic couples), Rita (video and performance of a joint Cabra project) and #3 (a dance to read). In 2016 she created with Marcos Simoes the stage piece LAVA, based on the parallel, the idiotic, thirdness and visions. In 2016-17 she initiated a new project starting from the distance between language and experience, specifically concerning dance and performance. Spectacles as artistic research will take the form of a set/film/performance, and of a series of ‘dances to read’ that she has been commissioned to write. Currently, she is establishing a new curatorial programme, La Forest, within Bains Connective in Brussels, an artists-run organization focused on hybrid forms of performance.
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