Re:Move

Kaaitheater
Re:Move, exploring dance repertoire

Dance is essentially a transient art form because it is hard to note down. In our Re:Move festival we are presenting performers who make transmitting or reconstructing dance the subject of their production. The festival also wishes to pay tribute to Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham, two great artists who passed away last summer.

We show work by choreographers who reinterpret key pieces in the history of twentieth-century dance: from the 1913 Sacre du Printemps (Xavier Le Roy), through Mary Wigman’s 1929 dance cycle (Fabián Barba) to the postmodern dance of the great master Merce Cunningham (Boris Charmatz). The Steijn, Poelstra and Siewert trio – together called United Sorry – examines the most feminine of all art forms from a male point of view, focusing on such female pioneers as Martha Graham and Trisha Brown. Rachel Krische has adapted a solo by the American choreographer Deborah Hay. Jérôme Bel has the dancer Lutz Förster look back at his career with Pina Bausch.

Transmitting one’s own material is also the subject of some performances: deufert+plischke ask the American DD Dorvillier to reformulate their work. Vincent Dunoyer takes up the role of choreographer to teach five dancers parts he had previously performed himself. Jonathan Burrows is continuing to work on the notion of ‘translation’, one of his favourite themes.

In each case, the starting point is the here and now – the artist’s own methods – rather than performing an ‘historical’ reconstruction.

Apart from all these fines things you can also watch a huge number of dance videos – completely free of charge – and to bring the festival to a festive close you can, under the expert guidance of Maria Clara Villa Lobos, dance twentieth-century dance yourself at a lively tempo. Do that dance!


Re:Move, a Kaaitheater festival in association with the Beursschouwburg

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Film
Kaaitheater
dance films
Re:Movies! »
02/02/2010 ... 13/02/2010
Before and after the performances at the Kaaitheater you can watch a superb selection of dance films and videos in the foyer.

Performance/Dance
Kaaitheater
Jérôme Bel
Lutz Förster »
2-3-4/2/2010
In Lutz Förster, the French choreographer Jérôme Bel will be bringing Lutz Förster to the stage, one of the dancers of Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. Förster will review his career as a dancer with Pina Bausch, Susanne Linke, the José Limon company and Bob Wilson.
In English
Dance
Kaaistudios
deufert+plischke
ANARCHIV #2: second hand »
3-4/2/2010
In the series ANARCHIV, the ‘artistwins’ Kattrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke look back at the works they have made together over the last eight years. They cooperate with other artists and let them change their material to suit themselves. For this production, deufert+plischke reformulate their work together with performers DD Dorvillier and Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt.
Lecture
Kaaitheater
Re:Move Talks!
On Pina Bausch »
3/2/2010
The Kaaitheater dramaturge Marianne Van Kerkhoven will be talking to the film-maker Eric de Kuyper about the work of Pina Bausch (1940-2009). We shall be showing the documentary Un jour Pina a demandé (1983) by the Belgian film-maker Chantal Akerman in the bar.
In English
Lecture
Kaaistudios
Re:Move Talks!
Archiving Dance »
4/2/2010
Timmy De Laet, a researcher at Antwerp University, will be talking to Kattrin Deufert, Thomas Plischke and DD Dorvillier about archiving, sharing and passing on dance material.
In English
Dance
Kaaistudios
Fabián Barba
A Mary Wigman Dance Evening »
5-6/2/2010

The young Ecuadorian choreographer Fabián Barba is fascinated by one of the pioneers of modern dance: the German dance artist Mary Wigman. He is working on Wigman’s Schwingende Landschaft, a series of seven dance solos created in 1929.

Film
Beursschouwburg
Ruedi Gerber
Breath Made Visible »
5/2/2010
A probing documentary on the fascinating life of the dance icon, pioneer and performer Anna Halprin.
In English; surtitled in French
Lecture
Kaaistudios
Re:Move Talks!
On Mary Wigman »
5/2/2010
Christel Stalpaert, a professor at Ghent University, will be talking to Fabian Barba about the work of the German choreographer Mary Wigman (1886-1973), an innovator in expressionism and a pioneer of modern dance.
In English
Lecture
Kaaitheater
Re:Move Talks!
on Nijinski »
6/2/2010
A talk by Christel Stalpaert on Vaslav Nijinski (1890-1950), the Russian dancer and choreographer who created trail-blazing choreographic works to Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps and Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
In English
Music/Dance
Kaaitheater
Xavier Le Roy
Le Sacre du Printemps »
6/2/2010
When the choreographer Xavier Le Roy discovered pictures of rehearsals of Le Sacre du Printemps by the Berlin Philharmonic on a dvd, he was immediately fascinated by the movements of the conductor, Simon Rattle. He analyses them as a work of choreography in its own right. The result is a virtuoso solo, a clever and witty interaction of visual and auditory sensations.
Film
Kaaitheater
Thierry De Mey
Prélude à la Mer »
6/2/2010
Dance film with the music by Claude Debussy. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's choreography is inspired on Nijinsky’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune.
Dance
Kaaitheater
Vincent Dunoyer
Encore »
9-10/2/2010

In developing his repertoire as a dancer, Dunoyer has worked with such choreographers as Steve Paxton, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and Raimund Hoghe. In Encore he has this work danced by five other dancers, which is a double change of role: five young dancers take over Dunoyer’s role as a dancer, while Dunoyer takes on the role of choreographer.

Performance/Dance
Kaaistudios
United Sorry
feminine delight »
9-10/2/2010
Robert Steijn plays a woman who believes devoutly in everything she does. He becomes a Martha Graham and thereby reaps great success, until he goes out of fashion and takes to drink. He dies, but is reincarnated as a Trisha Brown, who takes a postmodern approach to seeking contact with a new audience. An absurdly comical musical on suffering, working hard and living as a diva.
In English
Lecture
Kaaitheater
Re:Move Talks!
The Memory of the Body »
10/2/2010
Vincent Dunoyer has danced for Wim Vandekeybus, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Steve Paxton and others. How does all this choreographic material lodge in a dancer’s body? Dance critic Jeroen Peeters will talk to him about the body’s memory.
In English
Dance
Beursschouwburg
Deborah Hay/Rachel Krische + Nicole Beutler
The Swimmer + Les Sylphides »
11-12/2/2010
For The Swimmer, the London dancer and choreographer Rachel Krische adapted a solo by Deborah Hay. In the sixties Hay was a member of the legendary Judson Dance Theatre. Nicole Beutler is presenting a remake of Les Sylphides (Mikhail Fokin, 1907), the first classical ballet not to tell a story.
Lecture
Kaaitheater
Re:Move Colloquium!
Re-enacting the Dance: Reconstruction or Critical Intervention? »
12/2/2010

How can dance be reconstructed? Is it desirable? Can or should one update dance material or use it in a new context? These are some of the many questions asked at this colloquium.

In English
Dance
Kaaistudios
Jonathan Burrows & Chrysa Parkinson
Dogheart »
12-13/2/2010
For the past ten years Jonathan Burrows has been concentrating on one-to-one collaborations, as powerful as they are witty, with other artists. For Re:Move he will create a piece with the dance artist Chrysa Parkinson, taking as its starting point a love of translation and a curiosity about narrative.
Dance
Kaaitheater
Boris Charmatz
Flip book »
12-13/2/2010
In his latest project, Boris Charmatz is using the work of Merce Cunningham, the great American master of postmodern dance. The starting point for this piece is a book containing photos of all his creations. 50 years of dance will become ‘the story of a life’s work captured in a book which in its turn is transformed into a performance’.
Lecture
Kaaitheater
Re:Move Talks!
On Merce Cunningham »
12/2/2010
With Boris Charmatz we shall be discussing the grand master of postmodern dance, Merce Cunningham (1919-2009). In the bar we shall be showing a documentary by his close associate Charles Atlas, and an experimental short film by the American video artist Nam June Paik.
In English
Miscellaneous/Dance
Kaaitheater
Re:Move Ball! + PARTY
U Dancing Through History »
13/2/2010
Using some kind of copy-and-paste, Maria Clara Villa Lobos lets you dance some of the big moments from the 20th-century dance repertoire yourself.
To close the Re:Move festival, DJ Eddy & Patrick play their dance classics. Come down and party along!