By making the Belgian artist Michaël Borremans a central source of inspiration for Speechless Voices, Cindy Van Acker gathers her six dancers in a new narrative reality. The usual qualities of her movement - slowness, geometry and abstraction - are permeated here by figural, readable images, expressive stases. A human community has entered the picture, seeking through the body to ritualize absence and presence, loneliness and relationship, in order to transmute them. The mechanical, vegetable or animal extensions which vitalize most of the Belgian choreographer's pieces thus encounter clearer anthropocentric energies. Even if they remain enigmatic. Perhaps because the piece is a choreographic poem composed in tribute to Mika Vainio, composer of electronic music with whom Cindy Van Acker often collaborated, who disappeared in 2017. "We had intuitive, intense communication, often without words. We had a common voice which arose elsewhere." Speechless Voices seeks to produce, through dance, a shared language to fill the space, go through bodes of the audience, connect to the other.
Casting & credits
Choreography Cindy Van Acker With Stéphanie Bayle, Matthieu Chayrigues, Laure Lescoffy, Raphaëlle Teicher, Rudi van der Merwe, Daniela Zaghini Music Mika Vainio Dramaturgy Michèle Pralong Scenography Victor Roy Light Cindy Van Acker et Victor Roy Costume and ornament Marie Artamonoff Peinture Eric Vuille Durée 90 min Administration Cindy Janiaud Diffusion Olivier Stora Communication Dunja Stanic Coproduction Steps, Festival de Danse du Pour-cent culturel Migros, Expedition Suisse : Kaserne Basel, Dampfzentrale Bern, Theater Chur, Gessnerallee Zürich, Théâtre Vidy - Lausanne, CCN Rillieux-la-Pape, Reso – réseau danse suisse Support Fondation du Jubilé, Société Suisses des Auteurs (SSA), Fondation Stanley Thomas Johnson
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Dates
13 — 15.04.2018
Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne, CH
17.04.2018
Salle du Lignon, Vernier, CH
20 — 21.04.2018
Kaserne, Bâle, CH
25.04.2018
Dampfzentrale, Bern, CH
27.04.2018
Gessnerallee, Zurich, CH
29.04.2018
TPR, Moutier, CH
01.05.2018
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Lugano, CH
05.05.2018
Theater Chur, Chur, CH
06 — 07.02.2019
Swiss Dance Days, Vidy, CH
13 — 17.02.2019
ADC, Genève, CH
22 — 23.02.2019
TLH, Sierre, CH
23 — 24.01.2020
Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
27 — 28.08.2020
Kiasma Theatre / Finnish National Galery, Helsinki, FI / ANNULÉ - Covid 19