A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece)

The audience sits on all three sides of an equilateral triangle. In the middle, six dancers circulate, following a symmetrical system. In A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece), which premiered at the Kaaitheater last season and was received with enthusiasm, the Brussels-based American choreographer Eleanor Bauer examines the unseen principles that direct matter and movement. Past and present views of energy provide the starting point for a brilliant piece of choreography on three-part paradigms taken from science, art, philosophy and society: solid-liquid-gas, head-hand-heart, nature-society-spirituality, and sensation-imagination-expression, and antiquity-modernity-New Age. A Dance for the Newest Age is focused on dance, insatiable and greedy. ‘Everything comes: bring it on!’

• Eleanor Bauer (Santa Fe, 1983) studied at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York and then went to Brussels for a course at PARTS. While there she created the hilarious solo ELEANOR! In recent seasons she has toured with Rosas’ and Anne Teresa De Keersmaekers’ The Song and presented her own performance (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) at the Kaaistudio’s, a ‘stunning solo exploration of performance art’ (De Morgen).

In May 2012 we shall be putting on the premiere of Tentative Assembly (the tent piece), the sequel to A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece). In these performances, Eleanor Bauer uses the body as an instrument to capture contemporary human experience in all its urgency and complexity.