Disappearance
Disappearance is the second part of a diptych with Appearance with a scenography by Ruben Van Leer. Twelve dancers move through a world of projected light and dissolved movement; a stage that breathes between darkness and emergence, between what vanishes and what is about to arrive…
“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
The piece begins in darkness and moves toward light as structural logic: through blue, red, and yellow. Each colour is a state. Each transition is a small death and a small birth. What appears on stage is not fixed: the bodies of the dancers, the projections, the voices, the music - all of it is in flux, dissolving and reforming.
Van Leer's video scenography operates as a living interactive environment. Dissolving movements, displaced shadows, and intangible traces of what the dancers have just done. Projected across the full depth of the stage, creating a second body of the performance. One that holds what the live bodies have already left behind. Square geometries press against flowing frequencies. The fixed against the fugitive.
The sonic atmosphere edits fragments of David Bowie, Björk, and Radiohead woven with electronic music, radio transmissions, and children's voices. Nothing stays in one register for long. A radio presenter and children's voices enter unexpectedly; small intrusions of the everyday into a space that has become mythic. Together, twelve dancers of Ballet National de Marseille and ICK navigate this interspace ether: a place where bodies yearn for voices, and voices yearn for bodies.
Produced by Ballet National de Marseille and ICK Amsterdam, in co-production with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana.
“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 & Choreography | Emio Greco I Pieter C. Scholten |
| Scenography | Ruben Van Leer |
| Light Design | Floriaan Ganzevoort |
| Dramaturgy | Florian Hellwig, Jesse Vanhoeck, Marieke Buytenhuijs |
| Costumes | Clifford Portier, Jeanine Pieterse |
| Performance | |
| Dancers | Ballet National de Marseille & ICK |
| Radio Voice | Thibault Villette |
| Sound | |
| Sound Design | Salvador Breed, Pieter C. Scholten |
| Technology | |
| TouchDesigner | Roy & Tim Gerritsen (Yfx Lab) |
| Photography | |
| Photography | Alwin Poiana |
| Production | |
| Production | Ballet National Marseille, ICK Amsterdam |
| Co-production | Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana |
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