ECCE / Claire Croizé & Etienne Guilloteau ism Aïsha Orazbayeva - Our solo

In August and September Etienne Guilloteau and Claire Croizé are working on Our Solo, a new creation in collaboration with violinist Aisha Orazbayeva. She brings a broad repertoire ranging from early music to avantgarde & experimental and is writing new compositions tailored to Guilloteau & Croizé’s choreography.

Claire returns to the stage as a solo dancer in a face-to-face with Aisha. Through improvisations, the three artists will create the new work by challenging each other and by incarnating each medium in order to create a real dialogue.

TEAM / CREDITS

Choreography Claire Croizé & Etienne Guilloteau
Danced by Claire Croizé 
Music composed and performed by Aisha Orazbayeva (Violin) 
Compositions (in process): Slow Change and Paper (2021, Aisha Orazbayeva), Circular Bowing Studies (2012, Angharad Davies) and more.
Light Hans Meijer
Costume design Anne-Catherine Kunz
Costume assistant Chiara Mazzarolo
Production ECCE
Daily management, distribution and communication Carine Meulders
Financial Manager Anne Crevits
Co-produced by STUK, Kaaitheater, Perpodium
Residencies STUK, Concertgebouw Brugge, Destelheide and Ultima Vez
With the support of the Flemish Government and the Tax shelter of the Belgian Federal Government

ECCE is the artistic partnership of Claire Croizé and Etienne Guilloteau.

Within ECCE, Claire and Etienne work as individual choreographers, but they are involved in each other's creations too. Claire has regularly danced in Etienne's work in the past, and Etienne assists Claire on artistic and technical matters. Etienne focuses more on the dramaturgy, Claire starts from emotion and movement. Both choreographers have a strong bond with music and have collaborated regularly with ensembles from Belgium and abroad: B’Rock, Oxalys, MP4, Zwerm, The Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, oenm etc.

Since 2000 Claire and/or Etienne have made over 25 creations, including Skènè (2004), The Farewell (2009), Tres Scripturae (2010), Vor deinem Thron (2010), Mouvement pour quatuor (2012), Chant éloigné (2012), Synopsis of a Battle (2013), Primitive (2014), Zeit-Bild (2015), Feu (2015), The Diamond Sea (2016),Mer- (2017), EVOL (2018), Flowers (we are) (2019), Pole Reports from Space (2020), Retour Amont (2020), Retour Among: Le rêve (2021), Duet for two string trios (2021), and recently the explosive, stirring FABULA, a piece for 7 dancers and 5 musicians on scene, in collaboration with Unusual Symptoms / Theater Bremen, electric guitar quartet Zwerm and drummer Karen Willems.

Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva is known for her fearless interpretations of contemporary music and radical approach of older repertoire. She has released four praised solo albums with music varying from her own compositions to Telemann and Sciarrino, and has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, HAU2 Berlin and SuperDeluxe in Tokyo.