2016-10-06 - 2016-10-14 Slovakia

SKOK! & Záhrada – Centre for Independent Culture, Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, Tabačka Kulturfabrik present a slovak tour of a Belgian dance company

 

Dame de Pic / Cie Karine Ponties: HOLEULONE

Awarded 2007 best dance performance by Belgium’s Critics Prize

HOLEULONE develops the bond between movement and images at the mercy of visions linked on the stage by the animated film by Thierry Van Hasselt.

The performance is loosely inspired by Charlie, the endearing, simple witted hero of the Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes’ novel, published in 1959.

The piece dwells into the mental, interior world of a troubled man, into the changing rhythms of his thoughts, his real and imaginary memories, the clarity and confusion of his perceptions. At one moment, his twin appears - a kind of interior historian so similar to himself that he becomes unbearable…
The two dancers fight with themselves, with each other, interlace or surrender. The complex intimacy of their duo is projected not only through their own physicality but also through the filmic images in which they are often immersed during the performance.

 

Conception & Choreography: Karine Ponties
Dancers: Eric Domeneghetty, Jaro Vinarsky
Artistic Collaboration & Animated Film: Thierry Van Hasselt
Light Design: Florence Richard
Composer: Dominique Pauwels
Set Design: Wilfrid Roche
Text: Mylène Lauzon, Eric Domeneghetty
Technical Direction & Lightning Technician: Guillaume Fromentin
Video & Sound Technician: Benjamin Pasternak
Slovak Technical Team: Tomáš Morávek, Milan Slama
Production Support of the Slovak Tour: Katarína Ďuricová, Kristína Chmelíková

Production: Dame de Pic / Cie Karine Ponties
Coproduction: Théâtre Les Tanneurs, LOD (Belgium), Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – direction Josef Nadj, l'Echangeur de Fère-en-Tardenois, le 3 bis f., lieu d’arts contemporains (France), Ponec Divadlo (Czech Republic). With the support of Les Brigittines, Service de la danse de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and Wallonie-Bruxelles International.

 

Karine Ponties:
“(…) The narrative that drives Flowers for Algernon is one that could affect any of us, when at the moment in our lives we find ourselves displaced, off-balance, having lost status and position, whatever this might be, and yet at the same time able to act with awareness and insight into our own rise and downfall, decay and degeneration. All these changes of consciousness, these accelerations and decelerations of thought, these memories real or imagined, acuity and the confusion of these  perceptions, that such a situation may bring about is profoundly human. These are the elements that interest me in all my work.”

 

Dates:
6 - 7 October 2016: Stanica Žilina - Záriečie
11 October 2016: Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Košice
13 - 14 October 2016: Záhrada - Centrum nezávislej kultúry, Banská Bystrica

 

 

Photo: Michel Jakar & Wilfrid Roche