Rush
If you ever have seen the work of choreographer Mette Ingvartsen, you might also have come across Manon Santkin, a performer who graduated from P.A.R.T.S. together with Mette and, over the course of the past two decades, took part in ten of her creations.
Rush is a solo by Mette for Manon. It is a tribute to the act of performing, and a celebration of their intense and long-lasting collaboration. Together, they revisit materials and scores from past performances, while reshaping them through storytelling and narration. Out of this effort to ‘rewild’ their shard ecosystem, their actual artistic practice, emerges a surprising chronology, a rush of energy that reflects upon the pleasures of performing.
'Each process had its own universe, with its own horizon of concepts, a specific core of physical and expressive possibilities, that we would build the pieces around. The creations I’ve made together with Mette Ingvartsen all have something very concrete about them, anchored in the here & now, but they also have a strong line of fiction running through them. It has always been as much about what we do and what we imagine while performing. Like creating a continuum between fiction, imagination, and reality. (…) Looking back and venturing as a performer through what we have made in the past 20 years is like adding wormholes into this reality-fiction continuum. Or like creating passages between past and present, materiality and fiction, utopia and realisation.’ – Manon Santkin
• Mette Ingvartsen (she/her) is a Danish choreographer and dancer who graduated from PARTS in 2004. Her work is characterised by being hybrid and concerned with expanding choreographic practices by combining dance and movement with other fields, such as the visual arts, technology, language and theory. In 2003, Ingvartsen founded her own company and since then her work has been shown across Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia and Asia. Between 2012 and 2016, she was artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels.
concept & choreography Mette Ingvartsen | with Manon Santkin | choreographic assistant Thomas Bîrzan | technical direction and lighting design Hans Meijer | sound design & sound technique Milan Van Doren |
technique Jan-Simon De Lille | music Will Guthrie, Peter Lenaerts, Gregorio Allegri, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, Benny Goodman management Ruth Collier | production and administration Joey Ng | communication Jeroen Goffings | production Great Investment vzw | co-production STUK, cofinanced by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union in the framework of DANCE ON PASS ON DREAM ON, VIERNULVIER, Montpellier Danse, Tanzquartier Wien, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, SPRING, CND Centre national de la danse, Perpodium | Great Investment is supported by The Flemish Authorities, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, The Danish Arts Council & The Flemish Community Commission (VGC)
This performance contains strobe lights and loud noises.
This performance contains nudity and descriptions and/or depictions of sex and physical violence.
There is free water before and after the show, you can bring something to drink and/or eat in the theatre hall, and we also provide a quiet space for rest.
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