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KINTSUGI
Dance & Drums
by Isabella Soupart & VAAGUE

Kintsugi est la nouvelle création de la chorégraphe Isabella Soupart, née d’une collaboration innovante avec le batteur, compositeur et producteur Antoine Pierre/VAAGUE.
Inspirée par l’art ancestral japonais du kintsugi, qui consiste à réparer les objets brisés en soulignant leurs fissures avec de l’or, cette œuvre chorégraphique explore les thèmes de l’imperfection, de l’asymétrie et du chaos. La danseuse Elsa Tagawa, en alternance avec Marita Schwanke (Osaka), engage un dialogue avec le batteur, dont la performance mêle batterie acoustique en direct, éléments électroniques et échantillons sonores. Cette interaction musicale crée une tension palpable entre minimalisme et explosion sonore. Ensemble, ils tissent un contrepoint chorégraphique vibrant, porté par une énergie explosive.

Choreographer Isabella Soupart and visual artist Caroline Le Méhauté present Tellus Project, a dance-installation-performance at the intersection of art and biology. Exploring environmental issues through matter, this duo is taking over the Centrale for contemporary art for a period of four months. As part of the Nocturnes, choreographer Isabella Soupart showcases a highlight of this project: a captivating dance solo performed by dancer/performer Elsa Tagawa. This solo, a true centerpiece of the experience, invites the audience to immerse themselves in a sensory and performative odyssey in constant evolution.

Dates  > 17.04 > 19:00 & 20:30 
Also on sale in our ticket office/shop: Place Sainte-Catherine 45

Location : Centrale for contemporary art, Place Sainte-Catherine 45, 1000 Brussels

Silence is conceived as an electro-pop ballet, incorporating the logbook of Ukrainians sharing their observations, experiences, and feelings since the beginning of the war. For this production, Isabella Soupart continues her collaboration with pianist Guy Vandromme and invites Swiss-Swedish sound designer Silas Bieri. The choreographer explores how we navigate despair and hope. She envisions an electro-pop ballet where a group of dancers moves within the pop-rock-punk culture while playing with the codes of contemporary dance. This performance offers an inclusive vision of the world, presenting itself as a quest and a response to the 21st century—a diverse and globalized era.

Inspired by the ancestral Japanese art of Kintsugi, which enhances imperfections by repairing them with gold, choreographer Isabella Soupart explores themes of imperfection, asymmetry, and chaos. Her new production brings together French dancer Elsa Tagawa and Brussels-based musician Antoine Pierre, who blends acoustic drums, electronic elements, and sound samples. KINTSUGI creates a unique language by layering multiple artistic elements, offering an immersive experience where body, sound, and voice play with the audience’s perception.

Kaze to Arashi is a collaboration between choreographer Isabella Soupart, composer David Achenberg, YouTuber Rambalac and dancer-performer Marita Schwanke. A powerful yet sensitive production that combines dance, sound installation, live piano and video art, offering a series of continuously reinvented dance sequences.

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

Où : Rosas Studio 

Documents requis :

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.

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.

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.