Ondine Cloez

Vacances vacance

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Dance

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Creation and performance, Ondine Cloez
Lighting, Vic Grevendonk
Dramaturgy, Marine Bestel
Produced by Entropie Production (Brussels)
Coproduced by Le Vivat d’Armentières, scène conventionnée danse et théâtre ; Atelier de Paris / CDCN ; Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans  ; Musée de la danse – Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne ; Kunstencentrum BUDA – Courtrai ; Charleroi danse – Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles ; La Bellone – Maison du Spectacle (Bruxelles) ; wpZimmer (Anvers) ; and Service de la Danse de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
In association with Les Laboratoires ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from Onda

When we go on holiday, what becomes of the place that we leave empty? The ever-watchful Ondine Cloez pays tribute to those moments when we are not really there but elsewhere. Those moments when we are next to, or outside of our bodies. In the course of this choreographic monologue, en route from discrepancy to diversion, absence gradually takes centre-stage.

Is it possible to go on holiday from our own body? Whether it is a matter of hypnosis, meditation, Near-Death Experiences, or even death, there are times when we are not where we are supposed to be. Ondine Cloez recounts her investigations, evokes the peyotl experience, the pebbles of Demosthenes and, putting all pretence aside, endeavours to do as she says: exit her own body. This quest leads to her carrying out a strange dance, the dance of grace, that state we find ourselves in when we are transcended by something which is beyond us, or outside of our own bodies - the art of absence. Vacances Vacance, the performer and choreographer’s debut piece, subverts all expectations of virtuosity, and turns the notion of grace inside out. Disconcerted, spectators are similarly invited to return to self and body.

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Atelier de Paris – Centre de développement chorégraphique national
octoberoct 17 – 19

Maxime Kurvers
Okina

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The director Maxime Kurvers furthers his research in theatrical anthropology by bringing the actress Yuri Itabashi face-to-face with the ban which prevents her, in accordance with tradition, from performing Okina, a play and ritual originating from nō theatre. As such, this piece is about how, through the power of the imagination, we can embrace what is forbidden to us.