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STANLEY OLLIVIER — THE MIRROR STAND CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAFIE, PERFORMANCE STANLEY OLLIVIER ARTISTIEK ADVISEURS KOPANO MAROGA, ESTEFANÍA ÁLVAREZ RAMIREZ KOSTUUMS, SCENOGRAFIE BENJAMIN MENGISTU NAVET ASSISTENT SCENOGRAFIE GABRIELLE BARBE MUZIEK BRAHIM TALL DANK AAN THE ICONIC HOUSE OF NINJA & THE BALLROOM SCENE, MOONI VAN TICHEL, RITA ALVES EN LILY BRIEU NGUYEN GECREËERD IN HET KADER VAN HET MASTERPROGRAMMA STUDIOS AAN P.A.R.T.S. RESIDENTIE WORKSPACEBRUSSELS
DI 18.10 20:30
A layered dance solo about identity, the world of imagination and the performativity of the everyday
The Mirror Stand is a solo performance that aims to investigate the notion of identity, articulate the oscillations between the axes of black suffering and black joy, research the concept of performativity and focus on questions of undoing. It translates ideas, intangible ephemera and phenomena into tangible choreographic propositions, and offers a new physical transformation with a mix of seriousness and foolishness. The work dives into an imaginative sphere, revisits some personal complexes and interrogates: How within a fixed identity history can we find our ways to express our own specificity within that universality? One of the goals of the solo is to explore different ways of playing with some identities the protagonist recognized within itself, and try to challenge them. I have been discovering different ways of embodying, and impersonating available bodies in order to find a new embodied language, within a language that is already seen as common. I deal with different forms of entertainment, states of being, ways of expressing, inhabiting the body, and juxtaposing body parts with some characters manners. I mobilize hyper-representationality versus abstraction; hyper-subjectivity versus collectivity; rage versus joy; seriousness versus frivolity. I attempt to possibly deploy some kind of signification in expressing politics through dancing, and follow some desires with the intention to access and create an imaginary world with the satisfaction of not reaching anything potentially classified.
Bio Stanley Ollivier is a dancer, performer and maker from Paris, France. Coming from a gymnastic background, he decided to change his path from a need of creativity, and went to study dance and musical in the International Dance Academy Of Paris (AID). He left to continue his studies in Contemporary Dance at the CNSMDP in Paris, and in P.A.R.T.S. where he obtained his Master of Arts in Dance. His artistic practice stems from the belief that a body has infinite possibilities to generate the unexpected and challenge the abstract, imaginative, and perceptive power of the human body. He is interested in physical investigations, including but not limited to movement. He works around the questions about the place of amusement in contemporary dance, context displacement, identity, humor, absurdity, and versatility. He received all kinds of residential support and has collaborated in different productions and with different international artists: Kamel Ouali, Tatiana Seguin, François Rousseau, Lasseindra Ninja, Iván Pérez & The Heidelberg Dance Theater, Luis Ramirez Muñoz, Pippin, Morgan Productions, Disney Channel, Lila&John, Nina Muñoz, Collective LA 360/ Sarah Deppe, Timothe Chams Yadollah, Cie Tabea Martin, Brahim Tall, Geert Belpaeme, WorkSpaceBrussels and etc. He has presented his work at Kanal Pompidou (BE), Zinnema (BE), KunstenFestivalDesArts (BE), Dansand Festival (BE), To Be Antwerp Festival 2020, Cocq’arts Festival 2021, Tic Tac Art Center, Beursschouwbourg, BAMP, Design Museum Brussels, Queer Festival Heidelberg, WorkSpaceBrussels, Les Brigittines and etc. Likewise, © Jonas Bang – Dream Diver, 2022 (still). Courtesy of the artist. HOUSE FOR DANCE, IMAGE & SOUND, LEUVEN he is an active member of the Ballroom Scene, he is part of the Iconic House Of Ninja in Paris/ Brussels.
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Jonas Bang — Dream Diver VIEWING DATES DI 01.11 20:00 DO 03.11 20:00 ZA 05.11 10:30, 12:00, 14:30, 16:00 & 18:00 ZO 06.11 10:30, 12:00, 14:30, 16:00 & 18:00
Jonas Bang – Dream Diver (2022). HD video, open sound, 8’ Curator: Karen Verschooren
AT MANHATTAN
DI 01.11 → ZO 06.11
N — Jonas Bang is een Deense regisseur en filmmaker wiens stijl gekenmerkt wordt door een rauwe en poëtische touch en een speels oog voor detail. Voornamelijk gekend voor zijn muziekvideo's, is Dream Diver Bang’s debuut als autonoom cineast. N — Aan het begin van de zomer, een week voordat ze afstuderen en elk hun eigen weg gaan, nodigt de band Dream Diver een filmploeg uit om hun eerste – en laatste – live optreden vast te leggen. De band bestaat uit zes jongens die elkaar al 10 jaar kennen van een school in Rødovre voor kinderen met speciale behoeften. Onder leiding van hun leraren vonden de jongens hun mojo in muziek en sound. In Dream Diver nodigen ze je uit in hun klinkende universum gevuld met synthetische vogelflui�tjes en abstracte droomteksten. E — Jonas Bang is a Danish director and filmmaker whose style is characterized by a raw and poetic touch and a playful eye for detail. Mostly known for his music videos, Dream Diver marks Bang’s debut as an autonomous filmmaker. E — Early in the summer, a week before they left school and went their separate ways, the band Dream Diver invites a film crew in to document their first – and last – live performance. The band consists of six boys who have known each other for 10 years at a school in Rødovre for children with special needs. Guided by their teachers the boys found their sound, and in Dream Diver, they invite you into their space-sounding universe filled with synthetic bird whistles and abstract dream lyrics.
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