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#169

15.09.2022

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14.12.2022

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The city theatre of the past

On Luk Perceval’s Ghent Manifesto 2.0

The day after the premiere of Red – the final chapter in a trilogy produced by NTGent – the director Luk Perceval dropped a bomb in De Standaard’s opinion pages. Together with actors Bert Luppes and Oscar Van Rompay, he published a manifesto ‘against the arbitrariness of Milo Rau’. The text came some four years after the Ghent Manifesto that heralded Milo Rau’s artistic directorship at NTGent.

Sébastien Hendrickx

opinion 09.05.2022

Nieuwsbrief

Daniela Bershan and others – OCEAN

OCEAN, or the touch of a relational lifeworld

Sometimes, a performance, a work of art, reveals its timeliness in a time that does not favor its public appearance. Circumstances happen, and they hinder its reception, and while the work of mounting a performance for few occasions for too few spectators might seem disappointingly vain to its makers, the performance still finds other ways of working through to us, reaching the spectators who couldn’t experience the full event. Like sprouting new tentacles that will extend it into other modes of existence –a map, a conversation, a rehearsal, a rumor – the work begins to live in the mythical glow of incompleteness. This condition is not unusual for those artworks of which we cherish the most vivid memories even if we only saw a glimpse of them.

Bojana Cvejić

review 10.03.2022

Artist Entrance: Moya Michael

Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performing artist. We choose artistic interest over human interest. This time, we are happy to give the word to Moya Michael, a dancer, performer and choreographer born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has danced with the likes of Akram Khan, Gregory Maqoma, Rosas, Eastman, Faustin Linyekula, David Hernandez, Mårten Spångberg and Jin Xing. Moya has worked on commissions various parts of the world including in China, India, South Africa. Furthermore, Moya has spearheaded an open-ended collaboration in Pondicherry, India, with a group of multidisciplinary artists from across the globe. Moya continues to evolve as a creative maker of live performance. It is in this manner that she has established a working relationship with KVS, where her latest work, Outwalkers, can be seen this week.

Moya Michael

interview 07.02.2022

Artist Entrance: Kelly Copper

Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performing artist. We choose artistic interest over human interest. This time, we are happy to give the word to Kelly Copper (1971). Together with Pavol Liska, she founded the collective Nature Theatre of Oklahoma in 2004. Using readymade material, found space, gifted properties, cosmic accident, extreme formal manipulation and plain hard work, Nature Theater of Oklahoma makes art to affect a shift in the perception of everyday reality that extends beyond the site of performance and into the world in which we live.

Kelly Copper

interview 02.01.2022

Generation XIII – a documentary podcast

5 dancers * 3 years * 1 school

Every three years 1000 young dancers from all over the world audition for PARTS, the renowned school for contemporary dance in Brussels, directed by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Every three years, only 40 are chosen to enter the Training Cycle. The documentary podcast Generation XIII drafts a portrait of the generation that has been studying at PARTS since September 2019, through the experiences and voices of five students. Through interviews and audio-diary entries, we follow Eleni from Greece, Marllon from Brazil, Zoé from France, Renátó from Hungary and Kia from New Zealand, all through their training.

Delphine Hesters

multimedia 13.12.2021