friday 25 > saturday 27 june
Sara Manente/Marcos Simoes/Gitte Hendrikx/Christophe Albertijn
Molding I
Molding II
Molding means forming and shaping, operation and effect. Molding is also a technique that shapes and models an architectural element: a surface sensitive to the light generated by the movement of its profile. Marcos Simoes, Gitte Hendrikx and Christophe Albertijn are Sara Manente’s accomplices in study and recreation. They will plow the landscape using low and high-intensity gestures, parading with their fashion in a cat-walk. In Bologna they’ll introduce a reflection on the fact that the movements of giving and taking shape occur simultaneously, letting themselves be informed by spaces and events. Like apparitions that foreshadow a creation to come without looking to the future.
Sara Manente works as choreographer, dancer, researcher and mentor in Brussels. Her projects are developed throughout hybrid researches and performative publishing: choreographic pieces, films, texts, events, workshops, telepathic experiences. She studied ballet and contemporary dance, and communication sciences at the University of Bologna and Antwerp with an interdisciplinary approach that lead to her understanding of dance as a performative language. Her performative work is based on re-mixing outputs from movement, iconography, memory, spatial perception, aesthetic values and individual singularity as a way to expand the practice of choreography narrowing the distance between performer and audience. In 2008 she attended a.pass post master degree in performing arts, and 10 years later she was part of the a.pass Research Center/Cycle 1. Her current focus are aesthetics and ethics at the intersection between live arts and live cultures: fermentation technology, chimerization and (auto)immunity. “In my work there is often the concern of expanding the moment before naming or categorizing. A sort of suspension in a state of affects, paradoxes and possibles. In this suspension something happens to the body.”
www.saramanente.weebly.com
Marcos Simões is a choreographic artist and a performer from Portugal, living in Brussels. After studying art and civil engineering in Lisbon, he attended the SNDO School for new dance development in Amsterdam, and the contemporary dance programme at the University of Fine Arts in Altea, Spain, where he started to create his own artistic work. He was one of the founding members of Cabra VZW in 2005, a collective of artists that share same interests and criticality. In 2009 he completed the post-master apass in Performing Arts in Antwerp where he presented several works around the concept of The Laughing Body. Marcos Simões has been creating performances and videos since 2002 by his own or in collaboration with other artists. Even though the body is the material from where he works, he uses different mediums such as drawing, video, image, textile, objects as tools to activate reflection and process. For him, relationships are a strategy to unveil what exist inbetween things, to open up holes and meanings we are not in control of.
Christophe Albertijn is a belgian guitar player, recording engineer, producer and composer, working since the late 1990’s in diverse fields such as electro-acoustic music, contemporary-dance & performance, cinema, pop-music, visual art and free-improvisation. He studied electronic & electroacoustic music composition and documentary film. He has worked for dancers, film-makers and visual artist doing sound design, post production and creating & performing original music. In 2020 the label HUIS was created as a way to document musicians and architecture, releasing recordings and a documentary video, collaborating with architects, theoreticians and developers.
http://christophealbertijn.weebly.com/ https://huis.bandcamp.com/
Gitte Hendrikx is a belgian choreographer and performer based in Brussels whose practice fluctuates between theater oeuvre and fine arts. She has a bachelor degree in Fine Arts at the KABK, then graduated with a MA at HEAD Geneve and further specified her practice during a MA in Choreography and Performance at ISAC Bruxeles. Her multifaceted installations combine sculptural and choreographic practice. Through deconstruction and combinations she presents a broad spectrum of possible relations between objects, sound, space, bodies and their speech. She is currently working as performer for Sara Manente, Liesbet Hermans and Shankar Lestréhan. http://gittehendrikx.be
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