Dance
Straatrijk & Collective Dope / Jenna Jalonen

BEAT ‘I just wish to feel you’

Everything in life exists thanks to energy waves. These vibrations create the rhythms that drive us and make our hearts beat. We share the same pace, the same pulse, we are connected through our heartbeat. But what happens when the beat disappears?

BEAT ‘I just wish to feel you’ is the first full-length dance production by Jenna Jalonen, produced by Straatrijk. The performance reflects on the meaning of human behaviour within relationships. Jonas Verwerft, as a b-boy, and Jenna Jalonen, as a contemporary dancer, examine their relations using the dead body partnering method, in which a dancer becomes a ‘deadweight’, as opposed to actively interacting. They play with raw physicality, and use urban and social dance forms as tools for inspiration. Sound artist Adrian Newgent joins them on stage, composing live music in dialogue with the dancers. The result is an incredibly physical, acrobatic, yet intimate duet.

Photos © Joeri Thiry / STUK

Credits

Creation, performance Jenna Jalonen (FI), Jonas Garrido Verwerft (BE) | Live music Adrien Newgent (NL) | Light design Miklós Mervel | Production assistant Janka Vámos, Jeroen Lissens | Production Straatrijk | Co-production Collective Dope, Workshop Foundation | With the support of STUK House for Dance, Image & Sound, Life Long Burning, Ultima Vez, Stad Leuven, SÍN Arts Centre, Eva Duda Dance Company / Movein Studio, Cirk la Putyika / Jatka78, EMMI, Trafo House of Conteporary Arts | Concept, direction Jenna Jalonen | The performance is supported by European Union Culture Program | Jenna Jalonen wordt ondersteund door Viktor Fülöp Scholarship
Thu 21 Nov 2019 19:00

Locatie

STUK Studio

Prijs

€12 (standard)
€8 (reduction)

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