16.09 / 19:00
Performance / SWISS DANCE AWARD 2017 / SWEDISH PREMIERE
INAUDIBLE
ZOO/Thomas Hauert (CH/BE)
The richness of Gershwin’s Concerto in F and the dazzling depth of Mauro Lanza’s music convey a contagious energy that invades the bodies. The six dancers on stage launch themselves in sophisticated and surprising ways to embody the music, which unites intuition and consciousness through improvisation.
In inaudible, Thomas Hauert focuses on the notion of “interpretation” in symbiotic relation with the musical composition. By deconstructing codes and cultural layers, inaudible offers a game between highbrow art and popular culture, between direct seduction and deceiving expectations that makes the choreographer’s language accessible yet unpredictable. One can detect a permutation of authority, of hierarchy: the choreography comes to existence through a joint creative effort. It integrates the creative potential – conscious and intuitive – of each dancer as well as their situation on stage, their subjective perspective on events as they happen. Their interpretation of the situation and their reactive intuition are linked to their individual subjective experience, to their personal story. At the same time, they act in an intention to create links with the others, with the music, in the space and time. They can act and react in consonance with the reality such as it is in the present, rather than following a premeditated plan. Resulting from this are a complexity and fluidity that are impossible to conceive of in advance, as well as a very particular presence and concentration.
PRESS
There are two approaches that invariably appear in Thomas Hauert's work: on the one hand he works with his dancers on moments of improvisation and sequences that are in no sense fixed in advance, and on the other, his starting point often consists of well ‐ defined geometric or spatial patterns that seriously determine the choreography. It is precisely this duality of 'fixed' and 'non ‐fixed' that gives his choreography its vitality.
Hauert has a tremendous confidence in the intelligence and spontaneous reactions of the body: “We could never have devised beforehand the movement that we improvise, and what we carry out in accordance with chosen patterns acquires an added physical value which we could not in theory have imagined”. Dancing as a practice, with the body in action. Marianne Van Kerkhoven, Kaaitheater program.
CREDITS
Concept & direction: Thomas Hauert. Created & performed by: Thomas Hauert, Fabian Barba, Liz Kinoshita, Albert Quesada, Gabriel Schenker, Mat Voorter. Music: George Gerswhin Piano Concerto in F, Mauro Lanza Ludus de Morte Regis. Musical collage: Thomas Hauert. Costumes: Chevalier-Masson. Light: Bert Van Dijck. Sound: Bart Celis
Informatical musical collaboration Ircam Martin Antiphon. Production: ZOO/Thomas Hauert
Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (BE), Charleroi danse (BE), PACT Zollverein (DE), La Bâtie – Geneva Festival(CH), Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape – direction Yuval Pick (FR), Théâtre Sévelin 36,(CH), CDC Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson (FR), Ircam – Centre Pompidou (FR).
With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la danse, Pro Helvetia – Fondation suisse pour les arts, Loterie Nationale, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Ein Kulturengagement des Lotterie-Fonds des Kantons Solothurn, Wallonie-Bruxelles International,
Studio Charleroi danse, La Raffinerie (BE), Grand Studio (BE), Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape – direction Yuval Pick (FR).
Thanks Les Cris de Paris (direction Geoffroy Jourdain), who commissioned and performed Ludus de Morte Regis from Mauro Lanza in festival ManiFeste (Ircam – Centre Pompidou), 2013
BIO
ZOO/Thomas Hauert is a Brussels based contemporary dance company. In 1998, the Swiss dancer Thomas Hauert decided to form his own company and has created since then more than twenty pieces, e.g. Cows in Space, Verosimile, Modify, Walking Oscar, Accords, MONO, (sweet) (bitter), inaudible which have toured all over the world. His last creation How to proceed celebrates the 20th anniversary of the company and has been premiered last February in Théâtre de Liège. Outside the context of ZOO, he has created pieces for e.g. P.A.R.T.S., the Zurich Ballet, Toronto Dance Theatre and Candoco Dance Company. His next creation for the 25 dancers of the CCN Ballet de Lorraine will be premiered in November 2018. Thomas Hauert is the artistic director of the bachelor degree in contemporary dance at the school La Manufacture in Lausanne since 2014. Thomas Hauert is “artiste en compagnonnage” at Théâtre de Liège (2018-2022) and artist in residency at Théâtre Les Tanneurs.