Isabella Soupart
Performing Arts

NEWS

Kintsugi I New production I Oct. 13th I Festival Artonov

Festival Artonov 2024

Inspirée par le concept japonais du Kintsugi, qui célèbre la beauté à travers l’imperfection, la chorégraphe Isabella Soupart invite le compositeur Antoine Pierre à collaborer sur sa nouvelle production dans le cadre Festival Artonov 2024. Cette collaboration aboutit à une œuvre musicale innovante où la danseuse-performeuse française Elsa Tagawa interagit en direct avec Antoine Pierre à la batterie, fusionnant batterie acoustique, éléments électroniques et échantillons sonores. Ensemble, ils créent une expérience artistique unique combinant danse et musique live.

Audition Call I Sept. 7th I New production 2024

Septembre 2024

Isabella Soupart recherche des danseurs avec une technique contemporaine solide, une base en ballet et des compétences en théâtre/chant pour une nouvelle production qui se déroulera du 21 octobre au 15 décembre 2024.

Quand : le 7 septembre 2024 –  Veuillez envoyer votre candidature à : audition@isabellasoupart.com 

Documents requis :

  • Informations personnelles et courte biographie
  • Photo portrait
  • Lien vers une vidéo contenant : Une séquence de danse montrant les qualités que vous maîtrisez, max 60’’

Date limite de candidature : 23.08.2024

Kaze to Arashi I New creation 2024

Autumn 2024

Kaze To Arashi est une collaboration entre la chorégraphe Isabella Soupart et le compositeur David Achenberg, inspirée du manga japonais FURARI de Jirō Tanigushi. Cette performance immersive combine de nouvelles expériences d’écoute avec de nouveaux formats de danse, invitant le public à changer sa perception du temps et à explorer l’espace comme un environnement plastique. Une confrontation captivante entre danse, musique et art vidéo, Kaze To Arashi est une performance hypnotique et profondément émouvante sur la fragilité de la condition humaine.

Plus d’informations bientôt… Fondation Blan > 14 novembre > 15 décembre 2024

In Landscape / Fondation blan / October 2023

October 7th & 8th 2023

Dans « In Landscape », Isabella Soupart et Guy Vandromme explorent les valeurs créatives, sociales et multiculturelles de l’écologie acoustique et de la lenteur à travers le mouvement et le son. Le projet vise à repenser l’expérience d’écoute en intégrant de nouveaux formats de danse, tout en transformant la perception du temps et en considérant l’espace comme un environnement malléable. Les compositions du groupe international Wandelweiser, avec des compositeurs tels que Michael Pisaro, Craig Shepard, Jürg Frey, Antoine Beuger, Carla Inderhees, Eva-Maria Houben et Bruno Duplant, façonnent l’écriture chorégraphique et musicale du projet du projet.

World Premiere / Silence / Festival Artonov 2022

October 12th 2022

SILENCE, the new creation by choreographer Isabella Soupart, delves into the heart of the book 21 Lessons on the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari. For this production she continues her collaboration with pianist Guy Vandromme and invites the Swedish-Swiss Silas Bieri to cure the sound design.

In this work Isabella Soupart analyzes the challenges of contemporary technology, the impact of social media, political issues and the way we show resilience in handling despair and hope.

She has created a Pop-electro ballet, in which nine dancers play with the codes of contemporary dance, in the spirit of pop-rock-punk culture. A performance in which the inclusiveness of this world is proposed as a quest and a response to 21st century globalisation.

 

Biennale of Contemporary Art of Havana (Cuba)

Nov. 20th to 30th 2021

In November 2021, STRETCH was presented as part of the 14th Biennial of Contemporary Art in Havana. The choreographer remodels her project with 20 Cuban dancers and musicians and part of her European team at the Museo Nacional de Belas Artes Cuba. The hall, the outdoor entrance platform and the patio of the museum proved to be ideal for the production, also considering the confrontation with the installations of the Cuban artist Kcho, whose theme is illegal immigration.

Slow (36h) Concertgebouw Brugge

February 6th 2022

Slow Festival (36h)

Slow (36h) Concertgebouw Brugge
Every hour from 7a.m., composer and central guest Eva-Maria Houben, Capuchin Church overtones, choreographer Isabella Soupart, and the silence-searching music of Wandelweiser pianist Guy Vandromme immerse us in a new performance.

06 Feb.2022 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00

Performances at Wild gallery

September 18th - 19th 2021
Stretch Timemonochromes
Stretch Timemonochromes project, is built up as a living installation, a format that looks into the contextual relationship between architectural space, dance, voice, sound, in situ field recordings and visual arts. During three weeks, Isabella Soupart and Guy Vandromme invite different artists to work together and enter into dialogue with the work of Martin Maloney (US), Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Antoine Beuger, Morton Feldman, Eva-Maria Houben, Jürg Frey, Bruno Duplant, Craig Shepard…
Sept. 18th | 17:00 > 21:00
Sept. 19th | 17:00 > 21:00
Place – Wild Gallery – Rue du Charroi / Gerijstraat 11, 1190 Vorst
Tickets – Booking

« DREI CHORALE » TV CHANNEL PODIUM 19-VRT NU

FILM EPISODE #1 DREI CHORALE - APRIL > MAY 2021
Film / Episode # 1 Drei Choräle directed by Isabella Soupart / Musical director Guy Vandromme
What if a choreographer and a musician make a film in which dance architecture and the sonorous landscape of the city rub up against each other and fertilise each other?
TV channel Podium 19 | Friday 26.03 | 20:00  – in loop between 26.03 – 26.04 – VRT NU  Friday 26.03 – 26.04 – Proximus

AWARDS & HONORS 2019

ISABELLA SOUPART AWARDS 2019

Choreographer Isabella Soupart is the winner of the SACD Choreography Prize (BE) 2019, Nominated for a Total Theater Awards Edinburgh (UK) 2019, White & Case (NY) Talented Woman Artist of the Year 2019, Nominated for the Maeterlinck Critics Prize (BE) 2019, Appointed to the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (NY) 2007.

TOTAL THEATRE AWARDS 2019 (UK)

STEVE REICH PROJECT 2019

The Total Theater Awards have blazed a trail of recognition for independent artists, creating innovative theatre and performance. » We celebrate artists and companies making some of the most exceptional work at the Edinburgh Fringe -artists exploring boundaries of what performance might and can be. The creative risks and explorations made here we know will influence the sector and grow audiences for years, and perhaps decades to come. » Co-Directors Jo Crowley and Becki Haines.

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2019(UK)

STEVE REICH PROJECT

Choreographer Isabella Soupart and the MP4 Quartet take on three masterpieces by Steve Reich: Pendulum Music, Different Trains – 1989 Best Contemporary Composition Grammy Award – and WTC 9/11. A string quartet and a dancer will sweep you away in the powerful confrontation of dance and music amidst hypnotic images and soundscapes.

MAD BRUSSELS 2019

STRETCH IN MUSEUMS 2019

Stretch in Museums is a performance combining dance, sound and visual design where the stretching of time, sound and body is the central element. Belgian choreographer Isabella Soupart explore notions of stretching in movement from several angles within the architecture of museums. 15 dancers interacting within the space of museums. British conceptual artist Jonathan Sullam, the choreographer’s regular partner, sculpts the scenic landscape. People will enter and exit freely within a timespan of 6 hours, defining their personal time of experience.

ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS

SLOW DOWN 2017

How do we imagine tomorrow’s artistic spaces ? Belgian choreographer Isabella Soupart & visual artist Jonathan Sullam move in museum work spaces where they create a research laboratory that questions and reviews the relationship  between the individual and the work of art.

BRIGITTINES

AFTER WORDS 2015

After Words concludes a trilogy relating to Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire, imagined as a concept and process. As a theatrical documentary bringing together pop philosophy, dance, music and video art. Isabella Soupart questions several notions : notions of limit, territory and bestiality, drawing from the Fluxus group’s conceptual art.