Milø Slayers - Monstrare et/ou Monere

Monstrare et/ou Monere is a solo that lets hip hop dance and contemporary research into 'monstrosity' as a form of philosophy flow through the body. Where are the boundaries between the 'normal' (normative) body and a body that as perceived flawed and monstrous? What contradictions arise in the idea of a monster? And what innovative perspectives on sexuality or deep emotions.

Monstrare et/ou Monere wants to let the viewer discover a multitude of viewpoints and insights. The experience is both collective as hyper-individual, because the monster is a creation of a personal imagination and at the same time it is influenced by ideas and collective fictions of a society.

CHOREOGRAPHY: Milø Slayers | COACHING: Stéphane Bourhis | PRODUCTION: Kunstenwerkplaats, Wouter Hillaert | CO-PRODUCTION: Vooruit, Kunstencentrum STUK, Cultuurcentrum Brugge | THANKS TO: Wouter Hillaert, Daniel Blanga Gubbay.

Milo Slayers (1993 BE/TD) is a performer and audiovisual artist from Brussels. He started dancing in high school forming his first crew B-city-one, in a time where krump, stepping and new style culture were new concepts in Brussels. After that he formed the crew Slayers, turned professional and started investigating abstract and experimental creative processes. With Slayers he collaborated with hip hop dance school Impulsion and he took part in multi-disciplinary projects on city culture (dance battles, competitions, street dance festivals, ...) He is now rounding off his Master in Arts and Choreography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, researching the figure of the monster / cyborg.

een performer en audiovisuele kunstenaar uit Brussel. Hij begon te dansen op de middelbare school waar hij zijn eerste crew vormde, B-city-one, in een tijd waarin krump, stepping en new style culture nog steeds in opkomst waren in Brussel. Vervolgens vormde hij de crew Slayers, waar hij professionele danser werd en begon met het onderzoeken van abstracte en experimentele creatieve processen. Met Slayers werkte hij samen met hiphop-dansschool Impulsion en nam hij deel aan multidisciplinaire projecten met betrekking tot stedelijke cultuur (bvb. dance battles, wedstrijden, street dance festivals...). Hij rond momenteel zijn Master in Kunst en Choreografie af aan de Koninklijke Academie Schone Kunsten (Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts – École Supérieure des Arts (ARBA-ESA)) in Brussel en zijn onderzoek richt zich op de figuur van het monster/cyborg.