Paula Diogo, Liza Baliasnaja et Inga Huld Hákonardóttir
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- Almost Summer Festival
Afternoon à Almost Summer Festival
Curated by the BUDA in Kortrijk, Almost Summer festival is composed of passages and encounters, aesthetic experiences and festive moments. Latitudes Contemporaines takes you there for an afternoon and an evening: an opportunity to discover two singular performances.
17:00 – 17:50
TRIEB, by Liza Baliasnaja
Combining movement, animation, and poetry, TRIEB explores the qualities of human mind through the metaphor of the knife. From the dawn of modernity in western philosophy, human cognition has been characterized as something sharp, capable of thinking distinctly about itself and the world. At the core of this rational worldview is the distinction between body and mind. It is said that body and mind are located at the opposite ends of the spectrum of cuttability- material body as infinitely divisible and immaterial mind as essentially indivisible. The body “contains” the mind and thus they are inseparable, even though the exact place where the body ends, and the mind begins can be rather unclear.
18:30 – 20:00
Neind Thing, by Inga Huld Hákonardóttir
Neind Thing seeks to transform a state of chaos and misery into a state of renewed empowerment, through dance, games, contemplative conversations. Neind Is Not Everything; It’s Every Thing: What if the answer to everything was nothing? Neind is the Icelandic word for nothing. In Neind Thing (Nothing Thing) we ask nothing to solve the problems of the world. Nothingness as a practice of elimination, as a dance, as a symbol and a ritual. Neind Thing is a dance performance by 3 dancers, a drummer and a lighting designer. All are actively Neinding. Together, we nothing.
To discover the three performances, a free bus will be departing from Lille and coming back after the last show. More info on departure time and place to come.
Biography(s)
Paula Diogo is a performer and stage director based in Lisbon, with an artistic background based on collaborative processes. Meandering through art-making and producing in recent years, her creative work is based on the wish to develop improbable ideas, focusing on thinking about performance work as a space of shared experiences between audience and performers.
Liza Baliasnaja is a Brussels based choreographer, performer, and pedagogue. After her dance studies at P.A.R.T.S, Liza pursued an interest in the discipline of philosophy, currently completing her degree at the University of KU Leuven. . In her practice, Liza looks at how philosophical concepts can be developed and questioned through artistic research. She is interest in thinking choreography beyond the body, integrating language, voice, and digital image in her latest works.
The work of Inga Huld Hákonardóttir belongs to the field of performance and choreography and on occasion branches into music/concert. Her work generally focuses on seeking friction between the symbolic and the sensorial. Inga also performs in works of others and has worked with artists such as Phia Ménard, Salva Sanchis, Erna Ómarsdóttir, Eleanor Bauer, Yann Leugay and Rósa Ómarsdóttir.
Credits
TRIEB
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Liza Baliasnaja / SOUND Jokūbas Čižikas / ARTISTIC ADVISING Stefan Govaart, Alissa Šnaider and Laura Stellacci / ANIMATION Liza Baliasnaja together with Federico Vladimir Strate Pezdirc / COSTUME Laura Stellacci / SCENOGRAPHY Liza Baliasnaja, Machteld Lambeets and Laura Stellacci / PROJECT SUPPORT Lithuanian Council for Culture Co-production, Workspacebrussels, Kunstencentrum BUDA / RESIDENCY SUPPORT Kanuti Gildi Saal, Workspacebrussels, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kunstenwerkplaats, Theatre Balsamine / DISTRIBUTION AND TOUR MANAGEMENT Caravan Production
NEIND THING
CONCEPT AND DIRECTION Inga Huld Hákonardóttir / PERFORMERS AND CO-CREATORS Salvör Þórarinsdóttir, Védís Kjartansdóttir, Ægir Sindri Bjarnason, Arnar Ingvarsson, Inga Huld Hákonardóttir / LIVE MUSIC AND PERCUSSIONS Ægir Sindri Bjarnason / SCENOGRAPHY Guðný Sigurðardóttir/ LIGHTS Arnar Ingvarsson / ARTISTIC ADVISORS Halla Ólafsdóttir, Ásgerður Gunnarsdóttir / THE PROJECT WAS FUNDED BY The Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education, The Performing Arts Counsel of Iceland and Kunstenwerkplaats / CO-PRODUCERS ARE Kunstenwerkplaats, Mur-Mur productions and Tjarnarbíó / SPECIAL THANKS TO Owen Fiene, Kieran Robin, Lótus Jógasetur, Dansverkstæðið, Saga Sigurðardóttir, Sandy Williams, Hákon Leifsson and Ólöf Pálsdóttir
