Monstrare et/ou Monere 

A bent back, speaking but there is no mouth. Arms doing their own thing. Legs swinging around by themselves. Until, on the lower of the back, a mouth peeps out of the trousers. Do all those body parts belong together? And where is the head? From the darkness, finally only a voice resounds, like a thunderous eruption from deep within. 

In his solo debut, Milø Slayers explores the boundary between man and monster. Monstrare et/ou Monere is a living triptych about the potential of monstrosity - not in a Hollywood way, but as a deeper consciousness that wants to wriggle out of fixed categories. Can identity be fluid? Where are the boundaries between the 'normal' (normative) body and a body that is experienced as deformed, monstrous? Slayers merges his choreographic background in hip-hop with the structures of abstract contemporary dance, under a play of light that constantly distorts known human relationships. 

• Milø Slayers is part of the dance company Slayers and studied 'art and choreography' at ISAC in Brussels until 2020. With Monstrare et/ou Monere we welcome Milø Slayers to the Kaaistudio's for the first time.