49 minutes later… On stage, a body is connected by a cable to a machine that sends out electrical impulses. Choreographer Cindy Van Acker continues the exploration which she initiated in her previous work Corps 00:00 (2002) with rigour and poetry. As a prelude, she maintains a bipolar dance composition in which two physical scores for a single body can be read simultaneously: that of the machine causing involuntary jolts on the muscles and that written by the choreographer. In Balk 00:49, Van Acker weaves a tense path, criss-crossed by rhythmic ruptures and fractures. In this way, the linearity of her itinerary becomes both fragile and obsessive.
“(…) The word ‘rupture’ is therefore appropriate to designate one of the specific features of the choreographic structure and also to take a stand against established values, automatisms, and trivialisations. In fact, it becomes the driving force behind the desired invention.” — CVA
