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IN SANA IN

choreographer and performer: Andreia Afonso

Today, I am a Human Being. I am not my mother. I am everybody. Who am i?

Thoughts of different souls, alive with forgotten soul.

Do you know you r(e) insane? 

Hear the silent scream of death.

I will live, when I'll leave this chair(e).

performing on 16 January at sign6

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this image

concept, performance, image : Thomas Dupal

this image wants you

this image is real and wants to know you are real too

are you ready for this image?

performing on 14 January at sign6

(this performance contains pornographic material)

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WORKSHOP contemporary

Paola Madrid

technical class + improvisation 12 & 13 January,19:00-21:00

Info: [email protected]

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We are among you

this performance has been canceled due to technical difficulties.

Please check the site for alternative performances on wednesday, thursday and friday.

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Figure Sonore

 “Figure Sonore” is an embryonic research inspired from the exhilarent experiment of Ernst Chladni (1756-1827). His best-known achievements was inventing a technique to show the various modes of vibration of a rigid surface. The technique consists of drawing a bow over a (circular, square, or rectangular) plate or membrane whose surface is lightly covered with sand. When stroked, a given plate will resonate at one of its natural frequencies. The sand bounces about on the plate until settling at nodal points thereby producing intricate patterns. With the same idea but using different materials, Gabriel and Marcella are investigating the relations between the vibration of the cord of an electric bass and the organic movement of the human body as a living organism made for 70% of water. Associating body movement with sound , the 9 minutes presentation is going to be the result of the interaction of different factors such as frequency, space, thoughts, imaginations and time.

performing on 16 January at sign6

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Jim Ghedi

Jim Ghedi explores finger-style experimental Guitar composition, with a wide repertoire of influences ranging from african music, jazz and eastern european folklore he has crafted his style of playing working heavily in rhythmic phrasing as well as melodic & harmonic experimentation. Planning on releasing 4 albums in 2015 (the first being 'Rue du mont blanc', material inspired by his time spent living in Brussels.) as well as touring throughout the UK & Europe this year. 

Previously having Played & collaborated with Cam Deas, C Joynes & Hladowski, Alasdair Roberts, Alex nelson's Death Shanties, The Big eyes family players,Trembling bells & Gwyneth Herbert. As well as performing a wide catalogue of Festivals, live art exhibitions and installations in UK & Europe. 

https://www.facebook.com/JimGhedimusic

https://soundcloud.com/jim-ghedi

https://jimghedi.bandcamp.com

Performing on 14 January at sign6

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Bloom Collective

Jazz music and contemporary dance improvisation

Bloom is a jazz ensemble with musicians from L’Oeil kollectif,  musical collective from Liege, Belgium. Drummer Alain Deval (Collapse, Quark), saxophonists Bruno Grollet (Timescape project) and Clement Dechambre (Silver Rat, Temse),  guitarist Quentin Stokart (Syma) and bassist Louis Freres (Syma, Bobby de Nazareth).   Concern about avant-garde and free-jazz genre, the repertoire combines own compositions and free improvisations.

With dance by (among others)

micaël, neus, gabi, raph, mélanie, gyula, angela, natalia...

performing on 13 January at sign6

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THE BRIDGE

Gyula Cserepes

"Rhythm is the first information we receive. It is the bridge that guides us from the world before birth into this world when we are born. When you are in your mother's womb, you hear the heartbeat and the flow of blood; you feel the mother's movement and you hear the rhythm of her speech. All of that is rhythm. You are not understanding what is happening, but you are feeling rhythm. As you grow, there are millions of brain cells that have to fire in a rhythmic synchronization in order for you to understand what is happening around you. Without the senso-motoric system, you could not move or think or make any sense of the world. That you can see or hear something is all based on rhythm."/Reinhard Flatischler/

I believe that dance can alter one's perception of being an individual into perceiving, that as an individual he is part of a community. The bridge is an accessible, open situation where rhythm - this universal language - is the base for communication. Breaking the so-called "fourth wall" between audience and performer I offer a unique experience to the spectator: to sense this power of dancing.

trailer: https://vimeo.com/116240740

Performing on 14 January at sign6

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The Community Kitchen

Rares Craiut

Appreciation of food and the eating experience always brought good people together. No elitist membership. The community kitchen is a series of dinners events organised in a kitchen built for the stage, a temporary cooking and eating space facilitating interaction and communication around our food concerns. Adapting existing pieces of furniture and building new modular units, simple to put and and take down, this temporary kitchen will allow for various configurations from seated dinners to cooking classes, all serving the role of cultural meeting and connection place. Made out of wood, food smells and good company, the space and matters are going to follow different guests in their quest for new works of performing and edible art, supporting the idea of food for social campaign. Performing together an informal, inviting, interactive and inspiring community kitchen.

happening on 9 January at sign6

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cc spirit

cc spirit 

(complex chamelonism)

 by

 Stella Sallonen

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Imagine you are seduced by South African lap dance.. hovering gently so close to you.. pleasurably stimulating.. imagine sensing (my) skin and the touch of (my) hair. (my) walk..

..imagine (you) all are snakes and serpents tonight.. being cursed by Mandragora's flesh and hypnotized into the Tombs by Seetha's blue eyes - so (I) finally can kiss you..

..imagine you're healed by the softest touch of dance in the form of Béjart's modern gaze, Tatjana's warm caress - morphing milky moves.. wrapping around you.. your heart beat slows down..

imagine those tingling sensations... smell of Lancom's liquid treat, genle chameleon's whispers.. embracing this dance night.

And then we celebrate: with magic fountain of liqueur, role-playing, listening to The Field, laughing.. dancing.. (Yours) Stella

image: Violeta Šapokaitė

In collaboration with and thanks to: Maria GW, Natasha Williams, Latin Groove - movement breakdown, sisters Veena and Neena, Lentoliskot, The Field, Tatjana Strujava, Gregoire Blunt, Eglė Kulbokaitė, Vladas Suncovas, Ulijona Odisharija, Maurice Béjart, Sally Shapiro and many more

performing on 15 January at sign6

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Fuck le système - #0031 - jusqu'à l'os.

Thomas Saulgrain

Se souvenir du corps, le simplifier pour le comprendre. Si je suis nu c'est pour faciliter le chemin vers. Toucher à l'os. Écorcher, travailler, devenir malléable. La ténacité du vivant.

performing on 15 January at sign6

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HIP HOP

This performance has just been canceled due to other work.

Other performances will be added to the festival soon,

performing on 16 January at sign6

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From notation to the recorded body movement

workshop lab with Eric Too

Over one day, the participants will draw trajectories linking notation/prototype/model to the final oeuvre, reconstructing the process of creation in space and in time. At first, the participants will be provided with a short theoretical background for the exercise. The participants, assembled in subgroups, will be assigned several images of artistic processes. We shall assume that the process whose image is standing in the middle precedes, chronologically speaking, those of the images touring around it, and refers to the so-called notation/prototype/model which informed the others. The challenge is to imagine how originally it was possible to go from the first outcome to the following ones. Three broad mapping methodologies will be proposed, all of them involving the body and its movement, material and its interaction with the body and tracing in space. Just like the traces, material and body movements shall be recorded. At the end, we should be able to answer some questions: how did you reach the conclusion about what is the most plausible mapping in space and time between notation and the oeuvre? How did you make decisions with your partner(s)? What avenues did you initially explore and end up rejecting over the course of the experiment? And why did you reject them? Additional meta-questions will be asked: Does this exercise come closer to a rational reconstruction or to a historic reconstruction? What notion of time is implicit in your exercise? How did you body behave over the experience, what did if feel, what did it learn? And how did your vision/sight perform, how did it travel, what did it learn? Unlike many performing conditions (forgive us for the pun), a small cash award (50 euros) will be given to the winning team or individual, to be chosen according to a fairly democratic rule presented at the beginning of the workshop. All participants are welcome. Performers with an eye for the visual arts, or visual artists with a leg for performance, are particularly welcome. ___________________________________________________________________

Performance and visual artist. currently living in Brussels. Erik is an award-winning social scientist, having completed in 2012 a Phd on poverty issues. He is currently enrolled in the Phd on Arts and Sciences of Art of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, researching on the feasibility of an ethics-empowered aesthetics. As a visual artist, he has gone from wall constructions to installations, increasingly exploring the performed aspects of the process of artistic creation. His performances stem from what is called “material performance” and frequently engage the membrane. They include “Northern Lights (recast)” (Encontros Baldios 2013, Espaço Alkantara, Lisbon), “Performance for Paper and One Dancer” (La Bellone, Brussels), “Development of an Arm” (Centro de Arte Graça Morais, Bragança) and “The making of “Untitled”” (Gc de Maalbeek, Brussels). Prized researcher in the context of the Gulbenkian Programme for the Stimulus to Research.

participation is free of charge but pre-registration is highly recommended: please send your name, art field and contacts to:

[email protected]

11 January at sign6

10:00-14:00

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Noche 602

A transition in between the representation of individualism and the manifestation of a group. Three acts . Three short pieces.

image: I swear I saw This; Michael Tussing

Noche 602 deals with themes as idealism, the manifestation of thoughts in the “real world” , meaningful dreams and immortality. Noche 602 is a collaborative piece in between danser/performer  Barbara Pereyra and the students of the theatre conservatory in Brussels. Direction: Barbara Pereyra Dance/theatre/voice: Leo, Manon, Alicia, Marc, Raphael, Lisa, Louise, Maxime and Barbara

Performing 14 January 2015 at sign6

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Falling Up

Raphaël Billet

"this act is about three things, rising up, falling down and what is in between.

« Leaving his pretention to stand verticaly, that made him the man as we know it, the flyer abandon his body to space, in a double dive, where ascension is an upsidown fall and the descension an inverted climb, and in an almost limitless imersion. »                                         Dominique Dupuy

Performing on 16 January 2015 at sign6

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MORNING CLASS of FLOORWORK and CONTEMPORARY DANCE with NATALIA VALLEBONA

FRAGILITY and RISK: We will use the ground to develop physical sequences. Hand standing, spinning, sliding, falling.... these will be some elements that we'll use to take some risks and to arrive in a power fragility of the body. We will try to combine the virtuosity of break dance with the fluidity of contemporary dance language to reveal a poetics of multidimensional body. "My world speaks about a strong body, ready, dynamic and flexible. A body with a fragile soul. This fragility is one way to meet the error, fundamental element to develop the creative machine. " Price: 25 euro all week, 6 euro one class

Info: [email protected] Address: sign6, Rue De Fierlant 99, 1190 Brussel

Daily training from 9 January until 16 January.

10.00 - 11.30 am