Kate McIntosh
Lake Life
decemberdec 11 – 18
A project by Kate McIntosh in collaboration with Arantxa Martinez
Visual installation, Nadia Lauro
Sound, Eric Desjeux
Lighting, Eduardo Abdala
Artistic advice, Harun Morrison, Sarah Parolin, Tim Etchells
Technical direction, Koen De Saeger, Tatiana Carret
Sound research, Charo Calvo
Studio assistant, Maria O'Herce, Ashley Van Pouke
Drawings, Dari Gatti
Maps, Marzia Dalfini
Harness, Karolien Nuyttenss
With the participation of Ghyslaine Gau
Voices, Manah Depauw, Anja Müller
General Management, Sarah Parolin
Production management, Niamh Moroney
Administration, Laura Deschepper, Elie Agniel
Produced by SPIN (Brussels); Backbone Berlin GbR (Berlin)
Coproduced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels); BRONKS (Brussels); Kaaitheater (Brussels); Viernulvier Kunstencentrum (Ghent); PACT Zollverein (Essen); Festival d'Automne à Paris; T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers Centre Dramatique National; MDT (Stockholm); SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht); BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen); SCHÄXPIR Festival (Linz); figuren. theater. festival (Erlangen); Teatro Municipal do Porto
With the support of Backbone Berlin GbR; Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC) / Résidence Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC); GC Pianofabriek (Brussels)
The T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre Dramatique National and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-producers of this performance and are co-presenting it.
In Lake Life, the performer Kate McIntosh, from New Zealand, turns her attention, for the first time, to the youngest sections of society via a surprising, interactive stage mechanism in which children, adolescents, adolescents and adults play together. They invent different modes of relating to each other, and collectively imagine the contours of a new world.
How much can we change? To what extent do we interact with others and the world around us? Kate McIntosh replies to these very topical questions by a show in the form of a game. In collaboration with the scenographer Nadia Lauro, we are invited to explore imaginary spaces, and to celebrate. Moving on from dance to performance, the Brussels-based performer, originally from New Zealand, has been developing a highly original, transdisciplinary practice which blurs the frontiers between stage and audience. In Lake Life, she turns her attention, for the very first time, to a mixed audience from all different generations, via an immersive and sensorial piece which unfurls a dream-like landscape before us. This landscape enables the audience to explore, in a physical way, questions such as transformation, self-perception and confusion with others. In this post-epidemic context, in which sharing, contact with strangers and trust, have been severely put to the test, the artist invites us to play together, and to create something in common. We are encouraged to go beyond our various assignations and prejudices, and to imagine the rules of a new world.
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