Thursday, September 25th
ARTinternational Istanbul
Turkey
Chantal Yzermans / Radical Low has identified, brought together and plays around with mutual common- denominators held between seemingly estranged factors.
Namely, primal nature and advanced science, elitist and mass culture and entertainment, public and private experience. (Douglas Park, 2014)
Namely, primal nature and advanced science, elitist and mass culture and entertainment, public and private experience. (Douglas Park, 2014)
concept/performance : Chantal Yzermans
based on a solo of Merce Cunningham ‘Totem Ancestor’ (1942)
based on a solo of Merce Cunningham ‘Totem Ancestor’ (1942)
musical composition by John Cage
with the support of the Flemish Ministry of Culture, Arts & Heritage, Internationale Werkverblijven 2014
with the support of the Flemish Ministry of Culture, Arts & Heritage, Internationale Werkverblijven 2014
For this intervention in Istanbul, Chantal Yzermans presented the results of a 3 week intens rehearsing process , in which she has been learning and assimilating a one minute solo work (1942 ) of the American choreographer Merce Cunningham.
Totem Ancestor is a work that Merce Cunningham made for himself in the bright spring of his talent as a soloist. A solo where the Martha Graham influence is still tangible. Composer John Cage wrote the music once the dance had been completed.
Totem Ancestor is a work that Merce Cunningham made for himself in the bright spring of his talent as a soloist. A solo where the Martha Graham influence is still tangible. Composer John Cage wrote the music once the dance had been completed.
The intervention in Istanbul, was the first of a choreographic series Chantal Yzermans is working on, after her residency at La Cité Internationales des Arts Paris in 2014. Continuing a dialogue on her research on the idea of originality and artistic creation.
The next rehearsals ( March-September 2015) will be collaborative work with Joëlle Adrien (Director of research at INSERM-Paris), Laetitia Bica (photographer-Brussels), MADmoizel (punk diva-Toulouse), Jean Paul Lespagnard ( fashion designer- Brussels) and SAM (neurohacker-Paris)
Together with these artists/researchers they start a new project in 2015 that will culminate in a multi-disciplinary project premiering in Centre Pompidou Metz, October 2015.
This presentation is one of the many works in progress that will be held during this research period.
BLACK OUT (worktitle)
a multi-disciplinary project in collaboration with
Joelle Adrien, neuro scientific of sleep & director of research at INSERM (Paris)
MADmoizel, punk diva (Toulouse)
Laetitia Bica, photographer (Brussels)
Jean Paul Lespagnard, fashion designer (Brussels)
SAM, neuro-hacker (Paris)
Elke Verachtert, lichtdesigner (Antwerp)
Mark Geurden, dramaturgy ( Antwerp)
in co-production/collaboration with
Monty Kunstencentrum Antwerpen -Jan Fabre/Troubleyn Antwerpen -Vooruit Kunstencentrum Gent
Takt/Dommelhof Limburg -Bolwerk Vzw Antwerpen -Teatro Danza Canal Madrid
