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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 

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

“Silence” is conceived as an electro-pop ballet, incorporating the diary entries of Ukrainians who have been documenting 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 manage despair and hope.

With « Silence », choreographer envisions an electro-pop ballet where a group of dancers move within the realms of 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 multifaceted and globalized 21st century.

After KAZE TO ARASHI and DECEMBER Isabella Soupart presents KINTSUGI the third show of her trilogy.
“Kintsugi” explores the themes of imperfection, asymmetry and chaos. Dancer Elsa Tagawa enters into dialogue with composer-drummer and producer Antoine Pierre, who fuses live acoustic drums, electronic elements and sound samples, while creating a choreographic counterpoint infused with endless vigour.

Inspired by the Japanese manga “Furari” by Jirō Taniguchi, Kaze to Arashi is an innovative collaboration between choreographer Isabella Soupart, composer and pianist 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 new and contanstly reinvented dance sequences.

Isabella Soupart and musical dramaturge Guy Vandromme explore in this project the creative, social, and multicultural possibilities of acoustic ecology and slowness through movement and sound. “In Landscape” aims to explore new listening experiences by integrating new dance formats. These mediums seek to transform the perception of time and view space as a malleable environment. Compositions by the international group of composers/performers Wandelweiser, including Michael Pisaro, Craig Shepard, Jürg Frey, Antoine Beuger, Carla Inderhees, Eva-Maria Houben, and Bruno Duplant, influence the choreographic and musical writing of the project.

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.