Zäsur

Rehearsal image of Zäsur.
© Olympe Tits

Zäsur is a choreographic exploration of desire and desolation, musically propelled by waves of Mahler and Metal. A female performer looks at a distant and near past and, in a search for insight, enters into a dialogue with, among others, Gustav Mahler, Friedrich Hölderlin, Rosa Luxemburg, Yvonne Rainer, Straub/Huillet and experimental metal genres. As she moves in and out of the choreographic space, the audience is invited to follow her in a labyrinth of intensity and distance, intimate and distant situations. She always asks herself: “Why did it happen this way and not otherwise?”.

Zäsur’s aesthetic and artistic point of departure is the question: ‘What is the function of a rupture, understood as a moment in a process of change?’ Fractures or shifts manifest themselves in time; in an individual, in a history, in a social or political context. Dancing and thinking through different personal, artistic and theoretical perspectives, Zäsur thus explores the possible meanings, bodily experiences, feelings and movements of the specific impact of a rupture. This creates a characteristic and intriguing movement language, navigating between aesthetic formalism and brutality.

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Choreography and performance
Elisabeth Borgermans
Musical dramaturgy and montage
Alain Franco
Artistic collaboration
Bryana Fritz, Thomas Vantuycom
Lights and technique
Luc Schaltin
Management and production
Lenneke Rasschaert
Administration
Kate Olsen
Production
BAIKE
Coproduction
C-TAKT, DansBrabant, Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond, Perpodium
Partners
Cultuurhuis de Warande, GC De Kroon
With support of
the Flemish government, the Taxshelter of the Belgian Federal Government, the Flemish Community Commission
Thanks to
JOJI INC, WALPURGIS