Disappearance
Disappearance is a multidisciplinary stage performance with powerful intuitive dance and is the second part of a diptych (incl. Appearance). The work is an ode to disappearing; when something or someone appears it is only to disappear again. And where something or someone disappears, something new will appear, if perhaps in a different shape or appearance…
“Light, video and live capture of the dancers’ movements - remixed into visual elements projected at the back of the stage - outline a re”
‘the ether’ as interactive dance piece
Like the phoenix rises from its ashes to be reborn, Disappearance picks up where Appearance left off: 12 bodies, music, projections, lighting, a radio presenter and children's voices come together in the ether. The piece forms an interspace where everything vanishes and emerges, where bodies yearn for a voice and voices yearn for a body. A sensorial and intuitive experience that starts in the dark and emerges into the light via blue–red–yellow with innocence and hope, from a simple black to a complex white hole. In this multidisciplinary performance, projections create a mystical spirits realm of dissolved movements and (in)tangible memories. In the ether, the dancers face a confrontation with edited pop songs by the likes of David Bowie, Björk and Radiohead cut with electronic music, radio and children's voices.
“The sleek, razor-sharp lighting design by Floriaan Ganzevoort forms an extra character, in dazzling interaction with the video projections by Ruben Van Leer on the backdrop. Square light boxes versus wavy frequencies.”
credits
| concept/choreo: | Emio Greco I Pieter C. Scholten |
| scenography: | Ruben Van Leer |
| light design: | Floriaan Ganzevoort |
| dancers: | Ballet National de Marseille & ICK |
| costumes: | Clifford Portier, Jeanine Pieterse |
| TouchDesigner: | Roy & Tim Gerritsen (Yfx Lab) |
| sound design: | Salvador Breed, Pieter C. Scholten |
| radio voice: | Thibault Villette |
| dramaturgy: | Florian Hellwig, Jesse Vanhoeck, Marieke Buytenhuijs |
| photography: | Alwin Poiana |
| production: | Ballet National Marseille, ICK Amsterdam |
| coproduction: | Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana |
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