Currents

Karel Burssens is trained as an architect and engineer, designed scenographies for several dance performances and was involved in Dior, Lanvin and Kenzo fashion shows. With Currents, the multi-talent ventures for the first time to choreography. What are our strategies for continuously striking a new balance within our surroundings? The eyecatcher on the scene is an ever-moving light sculpture. The machine determines rhythm and space, together with the bodily movements of dancer Mario Barrantes Espinoza. Their confrontation propels you into a poetic landscape in which to escape and dream and re-examines the relationship between man and machine. In this way, the installation and performance reveal our contemporary position as human beings: constantly adapting to a changing world, both on a technological and socio-political level.

The performance in Soetezaal will be followed by a dj set in STUKcafé by Simon Halsberghe (BXL Records, Vlek, Culte Agency).

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Credits

Concept & direction Karel Burssens | Created with and performed by Mario Barrantes Espinoza | Created with Tarek Halaby | Dramaturgy dance Femke Gyselinck | Music written and performed by Daniel Brandt | Music published by Erased Tapes Music Ltd | Light design with Cate Carter, Geert Vanhout, Bryte Design, Kristof De Dycker | Costume design Max Doerr | Outside eye Jeroen Verrecht & Gabriel Schenker | Film by Robbrecht Desmet, Sander Vandenbroucke | Production sculpture Fisheye | Production Hiros | Co-production C-TAKT, STUK, deSingel, Vooruit | With the collaboration of Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, Vlaams Architectuurinstituut, GC Elzenhof, School van Gaasbeek | With the support of the Flemish Government | Special thanks to Liesl Vanautgaerden, Arnout van Vaerenbergh, Geert Belpaeme, Bettina Molnar, Sue-Yeon Youn, Carlos Garbin, Povilas Bastys, Bart Adriaensen, Joost Machiels, Helga Baert, Ailsa Cavers