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The Sea Within
Lisbeth Gruwez & Maarten Van Cauwenberghe
2018
Having finished her highly acclaimed ‘triptych of the ecstatic body’ – comprising It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend, AH/HA and We’re pretty fuckin’ far from okay – Lisbeth Gruwez is changing course.
The eruptive choreographies that established her reputation are now making space for incessantly swirling magma. The Sea Within is a magnetising dance performance in which Gruwez no longer wants to order the chaos, but lets the chaos create or become its own order. Still just as sharp and intense, but no longer zooming in on individuals, she lets ten dancers dissolve in a grand, breathing landscape.
For the first time in her career Gruwez is not dancing her own choreography but selected a group of ten female dancers. Ten powerful lotus flowers that are symbols of connection. Together, they bring a new, contemporary ritual in which the ‘we’ embraces the ‘I’.
As usual, Maarten Van Cauwenberghe is writing the score to this performance, assisted by Elko Blijweert and Bjorn Eriksson. Minimalistic synths and a tingling game with frequencies push their electronic sound design to the bottom of your senses.
backThe Sea Within already is dance performance of the year. – *****
– Magali Degrande – Het Nieuwsblad
The Sea Within won’t let go of you. – ****
– Mirjam van der Linden – De Volkskrant
Not one movement is fixed, and yet everything seems completely worked-out. Like a dynamical painting. (…) The Sea Within is a provisional peak in an unfolding body of work. – ****
– Filip Tielens – De Standaard
The Sea Within is a real and 100% female bomb of exceptional sensuality. The total commitment of the dancers, their ‘occupied’ bodies and their irradiant faces form a fascinating and magnetizing halo.
– Delphine Goater – Res Musica
The Sea Within is not trying to convince anyone of a certain ideology, nor is it deconstructing or installing a fixed image of women. Therefore it’s anything but just another drop in the ocean of choreographies.
– Thomas Hahn – Tanz
CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY
Lisbeth Gruwez
SOUND DESIGN
Maarten Van Cauwenberghe, Elko Blijweert & Bjorn Eriksson
PERFORMANCE
Ariadna Gironès Mata, Cherish Menzo, Daniela Escarleth Romo Pozo, Francesca Chiodi Latini, Giada Castioni, Jennifer Dubreuil Houthemann, Natalia Pieczuro, Sarah Klenes, Sophia Mage & Chen-Wei Lee
LIGHT DESIGN
Harry Cole
SCENOGRAPHY
Marie Szersnovicz
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Gilles Roosen
REPETITOR
Lucius Romeo-Fromm
DRAMATURGE
Bart Meuleman
PRODUCTION & TOUR MANAGER
Anita Boels
COMMUNICATION
Sam Ecker
PRODUCTION
Voetvolk vzw
COPRODUCTION
Royal Flemish Theatre, Festival de Marseille / Théâtre Le Merlan, Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, TANDEM Arras-Douai, Theater Freiburg, Le Fond du dotation du Quartz, La Rose des Vents, Theater Im Pumpenhaus, Julidans, Kunstfest Weimar, CNN Nantes, CDC Toulouse, Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Vooruit / Campo, Charleroi Danse & Key Performance
RESIDENCIES
Troubleyn, Charleroi Danse, Arts Centre BUDA & Royal Flemish Theatre
SUPPORTED BY
NONA, the Flemish Community, the Flemish Community Commission & the Belgian Tax Shelter
DISTRIBUTION IN COLLABORATION WITH
Key Performance
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