Initiated by Wallonie-Bruxelles International et danse Prési-danses has invited three dancers-choreographers, the Spanish Olga de Soto, the Hungarian Eszter Salamon and the Belgian Karine Ponties to present a new creation in Barcelona, in Brussels and in Budapest – in the frame of the Spanish, Belgian and Hungarian European Presidency.
2011.01.26. 20:00, Merlin Theatre
Olga de Soto (ESP) - histoire(s)
What remains engraved on the memory of an audience long after the spectacle they saw one evening has gone? Choreographer Olga de Soto went off in search of members of the audience in the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris on 25 June 1946 for a première from a mythical ballet, based on a poem by Jean Cocteau.
2011.01.28-29. 20:00
Salamon Eszter (HU/D) - And then
Imagine you pick up a photo album in the street. You open it and see people you don’t know: pictures of holidays, familiar poses and gestures, faces of strangers smiling at you as if you were a relative or close friend who was meant to see the photos… Isn’t it strange, and rather uncanny, to peer into another person’s life when one has come across the evidence of it by pure chance?
2011.01.31. 20:00
Dame de Pic / Karine Ponties (B) - Humus vertebra
For Karine Ponties, the lonely, yet absurd and comical figure of the scarecrow is the prototype of a half-animal, half-animal creature – Humus vertebra is the third piece of a choreographic cycle surrounding it.
