in residence
A.I.R.
Since the 2009-2010 season and for three years onwards, theatre company Berlin and choreographers Arco Renz and Ugo Dehaes are 'artist in residence' (A.I.R.) at STUK. More info can be found here.
SARAH VANHEE
In november 2011 and januari-februari
2012, Sarah
Vanhee and Kristien Van den
Brande work on the project Untitled. Vanhee
looks for people of Leuven who own a work of art and are willing to talk
about it. During Artefact Festival (14>23 February), they are part of
the exhibition. The project also fits into the Common
Ground series: art with the city and its
inhabitants.
JULIANE VON CRAILSHEIM en PETER SAVEL
In October
& November 2011 and
January-February
2012, director Juliane Von
Crailsheim and dancer/choreographer Peter
Savel will be working on their first creation: Could We Fly
Together. In that project, they create a language of movement
based on a number of related subjects, such as the relationship between
performer and public, social expectations, physical behaviour patterns
between a dancer and his environment. The performance premieres during Move
Me on 21 and 22 March in STUK Studio.
DAVID BERGÉ
David Bergé works in the grey zone between
photography, choreography and urbanism. His practice are performative
walking projects, performance installations and photograpy. For his project
PROFESSIONAL TOURISM, he abandoned his appartment and studio in 2010, and
has been traveling in Belgium and abroad ever since. In January 2012, he is
a temporary guest at STUK, residing here and working on one of his next
projects.
MARIA LÚCIA
From 16 to 29 January, Marcia Lúcia works on her research into spaciality as a living body: When Nature takes back, a social story. The project started at APASS and will be continued in Fo.am, Bains Connective and Vooruit.
ALBERT QUESADA
From 9 to 15 January, 30 January to 6 February and 1
to 5 March, Spanish dancer and choreographer Albert
Quesada works at STUK on his new creation Slow
Sports, premiering in April 2012. Quesada approaches sports as a
full experience for sportsman and audience. In his research he explores
sporters' movements, their rhythm, facial expressions and the noises they
make. The competition aspect, both for sportsmen and audience, is examined
as well. Another part of Quesada's research focuses on the way athletics
events are orchestrated, depicted and commented on in the media - on
television and radio, in newspapers and documentaries.
Earlier this season
ARCO RENZ
German choreographer Arco
Renz works in STUK on his performace Dust,
premiering October 5, 2011 in the Leuven City Theatre.
For Dust, Renz cooperated with Belgian visual
artist Lawrence Malstaf, one of his installations being the centre piece
of Dust's scenery. The dancers are Igor Shyshko,
Nuria Guiu Sagarra, Melanie Lane, Taneli Törmä en Miryam Garcia Mariblanca.
AERNOUDT JACOBS
During the months of August and September, sound
artist Aernoudt Jacobs prepares his
exhibition Lauf der
Lärm in STUK Expozaal. Jacobs shows the result of his
research on new applications of 'field
recordings': PERMAFROST, an auditive version of the
crystallization process of water, or an ingenious sound landscape composed
of small sound towers in MINIATUUR. The exhibition
can be visited in STUK Expozaal from 23 September to 13 November.
GUY DE COINTET
From 22 to 28 August 2011, four actresses and director Jane Zingale prepare Five Sisters, a reprise of a play by French pop art artist Guy De Cointet. First they rehearse in STUK Labozaal, at the end of October they return for rehearsals in STUK Studio, all leading to the Belgian premiere of Five Sisters, on November 3 in STUK Soetezaal.
DAVID WEBER-KREBS
During the first week of September,David Weber-Krebs works in STUK Studio on Tonight, Lights Out!, a performance in the light of the second Leuven Climate Forum, questioning how a group of people together can bring about real change. Tonight, Lights Out! is the second common ground-performance of this season and is played on 9 and 10 November in STUK Studio.
FABIAN BARBA
Fabian Barba works
from 1 to 31 August in STUK on A
personal yet collective history. In this solo, he goes into
the relation between our collective and his personal dance history, and
their relation to his current performances. Choreographers, critics and the
audience are trained permanently, through their experiences with dance and
dancing history. The dance performances a spectator attended can change his
look on every other performance. Therefore, there is not one audience, but
a multitude of audiences. No dancing tradition, but many traditions, not
limiting each other but trickling through each other.
NORTHFACE+
NorthFace+ is a Brussels/Finnish
collective that combines dream-like electronics with beautiful vocals and
futuristic visuals. From 29 August to 4 September, they rehearse in STUK
Labozaal for their gig at STUK
START on Thursday September 29.
COMPAGNIE MOSTERD MET ZAAD
In july
and september and on several locations, Leen Lacroix en Pierre
Van Heddegem, the artistic core of Compagnie Mosterd Met Zaad,
work on their new creation L'air de rien. With a mix
of movement, text and video, they investigate the human urge for control.
DD DORVILLIER
From 5 to 23 September, American
choreographer DD Dorvillier works on her new
creation Danza
Permanente, which premieres on 11 and 12 May in the City
Theatre as the international project of the 'dubbelspel' programme. Her
international team of dancers and musicians comes together for the first
time at STUK. Those first weeks will be dedicated to musical analysis of
Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 132 and the first translations to
movements.
MICHIEL SOETE & BAS DEVOS
From 1 to 27 September
2011, Michiel
Soete and Bas Devos will be
working on their performance Burning Man in STUK
Studio. A man sets fire to himself, the piece does not look for reasons,
but goes into the meaning and the effects. Heavily influenced by cinema,
Soete and Devos create a new theatrical reality.
CECILIA LISA ELICECHE
South-American dancer Cecilia
Elicecheprepares her first creation at Atelier 2,
from 12 to 25 September. She examines the conversion
of utopian social structures into movement. Led by certain rules of play,
three figures move through the space, trying to determine or invalidate a
hierachy by means of movement.
During Move Me, on October 26, Cecilia Eliceche organizes an open
rehearsal.
IRIS BOUCHE
From 3 to 15
October, Iris Bouche and
musicians/composers Kobe Proesmans and Gerrit Valkenaers work on their new
project Cutting Space. In this dancing project, the
dancer/choreographer works with physical restrictions. Even in a 'normal'
development of the human body, physical restrictions determine our physical
abilities. Iris Bouche explores how those restrictions determine the shape,
value and context of movements.
MAARTEN WESTRA HOEKZEMA
In STUK Studio, Maarten Westra
Hoezema will work on his new lecture
performance De Verleiding from 8 to
17 October 2011. Hoezema shows how the techniques of so-called
pick up artists (womanizers) are very reminiscent of the seduction methods
used by commerce. The performance has its Belgian premiere at STUK on
October 18.
LIEVE DE POURCQ
From 17 to 28
October, Belgian dancer/choreographerLieve De
Pourcq, animation designer Klaas Verpoest and musician Hannes
Köcher co-work on the productionPieces Matter. It will be
an installation performance, playing with the identity composed as a
projection of our surroundings when we are at our most vulnerable: our
childhood. What is the link between child play like 'trip around the world'
or puppet-shows and the social relations we accept as adults?
CHRISTINE VERHEYDEN
From 22 to 30
October 2011, Christine Verheyden is
working in on her new performance in Atelier 2. The performance is
titled BLAUW. Het meesterschap van de mens. Wie ben
ik met de andere in de wereld?
SKaGeN
The final assembly of SKaGeN's new
performance Berlin
Alexanderplatz will take place at STUK
from 10 to 15 November 2011. One day later, on
November 16, the performance premieres at STUK.
BERLIN
Artists In
Residence Berlin prepare the location
project Land's
End at STUK, the second part of theHorror
Vacui series (which began with Tagfish,
at STUK last season). Land's End is the
reconstruction of a murder case in a small Belgian village. The audience is
at the crime scene and in the interrogation room at the same time.
In November and December 2011, Berlin will work on
this performance in different rooms in STUK. Land's
End will be played on 15 and 16 December on a location in
Leuven (yet to be specified).
GEORGIA VARDAROU
Georgia Vardarou is a Greek
dancer who has been at STUK before, in productions by Salva Sanchis. After
studying at P.A.R.T.S., she worked as a dancer in performances by several
choreographers. Each creation and performance is a discovery of new
possibilities of a dancing body. It is always possible to expand the
dancing vocabulary by using material of the choreographer, the other
dancers or oneself. This amount of information adds up. In her research at
STUK, Georgia Vardarou wants to look at all the material she accumulated,
and then work with it and develop it even further. The development lies in
designing a training method with her own vocabulary, since transferring
dancing material is an importat source for her own new material. Georgia
will be working at STUK on this project, entitled Hardcore
Research on Dance, from 17 to 28
September and from 18 November to 22
December. During Move Me, she will give a first public
presentation of her material, on 22 December.
TROTZ ENSEMBLE
From December 1 until December 4, the
multi-disciplinary Trotz Ensemble (consisting of
seven Belgian performers from all over the country) works on the music
theatre performanceLove is strange. Combining dance,
theatre and concert, the performance researches "the weirdness of
relationships".
SALVA SANCHIS
From 5 to 15 December
2011, Salva Sanchis works on his
solo Angle, a performance on how we look at dance.
Through smart improvisation techniques, Salva Sanchis continually develops
new movement material. Contrary to his previous works, in which he
addressed the direct environment of the dancers (the scene), he now breaks
through the fourth wall and directly addresses the audience. He tries to
play with the essential elements needed to understand and read a dance
performance. The result can be seen at STUK on 21 March 2012.
VERA TUSSING
Vera Tussing works on her
performance You aint heard nothing yet
(EDIT) from 17 to 22
december 2011. The main theme is synergy of image and sound.
By adapting movie editing techniques to a dance performance, she tries to
take the audience on a trip through their senses. The performance will be a
both acoustic and visual experience. Vera Tussing show her work in progress
during Move Me in December, the performance premiers at STUK on 7 and 8 May
2012.
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