Lisa Vereertbrugghen
+ More info- Live performance
- L'Aéronef, Lille
- 50min
While we are here
In While we are here, Lisa Vereertbrugghen explores the timeless desire to dance strongly, together. A wide-open, free hybridization of techno and popular dances.
Raves have happened through the ages – people coming together to dance frenetically, looking for a kind of free dance, a form of trance which never ends. So in While we are here, Lisa Vereertbrugghen explores the timeless appeal of dancing strongly and collectively. To that end she has invited the dancers Claire Godsmark, Dolores Hulan, Eimi Leggett and Castélie Yalombo Lilonge to build a parallel between a hardcore rave and folk dances which celebrate joy, community and fun. With neither nostalgia nor a pre-set vision of the future, the group creates a hybrid techno-folk style of dance which is by definition free of all control, celebrating their collective physicality.
The show will be followed by two intense DJ sets to beautiffuly close off the festival !
Co-produced with L’Aéronef
Accessibility infos :
- High sound level
- Sudden changes in lighting
Biography(s)
Lisa Vereertbrugghen has been researching hardcore techno sound and dance styles since 2014, through different formats in between performance, sound and installation. She attained a master’s degree in Cultural History (history of the body) at the University of Leuven and a degree in Choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam.
She often works with long term collaborators Michael Langeder, Sophie Guisset, Vera Martins and Madison Bycroft. She also works as a dramaturg, performer and choreographer for various performance and visual artists in between Brussels, Berlin and Amsterdam and she teaches at the Académie Royale de Beaux Arts in Brussels. In recent years Lisa created Softcore - a hardcore encounter (2019) and DISQUIET – sensational aesthetics of a technokin (2021). While we are here (2023) will be the first work she makes for a group, produced by the Ghent based arts centre CAMPO.
Credits
Concept & Choreography : Lisa Vereertbrugghen
Performance & Co-Creation : Claire Godsmark, Dolores Hulan/Taka Shamoto, Eimi Leggett, Castélie Yalombo Lilonge & Lisa Vereertbrugghen
Dramaturgy : Simon Baetens & Sophie Guisset
Artistic Advice : Madison Bycroft
Sound : Michael Langeder
Lights : Vera Martins
Costumes : Cee Fülleman
Song : Lisa Vereertbrugghen & Michaela Riener
Folk expert : Aurélie Giet
Production : CAMPO technique Babette Poncelet & Korneel Coessens
Co-production : Dans in Brugge (Concertgebouw, Cultuurcentrum & KAAP), Kunstenwerkplaats KWP, STUK Arts Centre, ICI — CCN Montpellier, Kunstencentrum BUDA, BIT teatergarasjen & Perpodium
With the support of the taxshelter of the Belgian Federal Government via uFund, the Flemish Government & the commission of the Flemish Community
