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DANCE PLATFORM

05.04 / 19:30
[Nu Scandik] >> 2006 presents:
METTE INGVARTSEN /Denmark>Belgium/
„TO COME“

Concept: Mette Ingvartsen
Developed & performed by: Mette Ingvartsen, Naiara Mendioroz Azkarate, Manon Santkin, Jefta van Dinther, Gabor Varga
Sound design: Peter Lenaerts
Costumes: Jennifer Defays
Production management: Hanne Van Waeyenberge
Co-produced by WERKHUIS produkties, PACT-Zollverein, DWA-danswerkplaats supported by Kunstraadet Denmark
http://www.aisikl.net/mette/
Ticket: 70/120
* Public discussion with the artists follows after the performance.

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to come proposes an excessive body of pleasure, an overexcitement of speed and vibration produced by sensual figures. It’s a rethinking of how bodies can meet, touch and connect so that new forms of enjoyment can arise. Seductively never the real thing. Staging desire as a thing in itself instead of as a desire for something. An undressing of coupled relations to the point where private and public, intimate and distant, virtual and actual, become inseparable.

to come experiments with the reversal of known relationships. Making the couple into a group, the group into a singularity and the individual into something multiple. It is a rethinking of how bodies can meet, touch and connect so that new forms of enjoyment can arise.

The performance proposes an excessive body of pleasure, an overexcitement of speed and vibration  produced by sensual figures. Colours and surfaces mix with a sensation of rhythmic pulsing. Bodies meeting, breathing heavily from ecstatic dancing. It’s an undressing of coupled relations to the point where private and public, intimate and distant, virtual and actual, become inseparable. Seductively never the real thing. Staging desire as a  thing in itself instead of as a desire for something.

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Mette Ingvartsen
lives and works in Brussels. She studied in Amsterdam and Brussels where
she in summer 2004 graduated from P.A.R.T.S. Since summer 2002 she has primarily been
working on her own projects among other things “Solo Negatives” (2002), Manual Focus”
(2003) “Out Of Order”(2004) “50/50”(2004) and “to come” (2005). Her work has been
shown in venues in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria and Scandinavia. She
performed in “Pipelines, a construction” (2004) a theatre performance by Jan Ritsema and
Bojana Cvejic.

Naiara Mendioroz graduated from the “Official Dance Ballet School of Navarra” in 2000.
After that, she studied and graduated at the S.N.D.O. “School for New Dance Development”
from Amsterdam. She has worked with: Frey Faust (France), Keren Levi (Amsterdam),
Opera by Peter Greenaway (Amsterdam). Own Creations: “Tie me to the bed and call me
Marta” (Short solo self performed and created), “49 urracas y un angel” (duet in
collaboration with Carmen Larraz ).

Manon Santkin lives and works in Brussels. In summer 2004 she graduated after four years
from P.A.R.T.S. Over the last three years she has focused on the creation of projects as a
performer, collaborator, as well as on her own. She has been working in close collaboration
on the projects of Mette Ingvartsen and performs in “Manual Focus”(2003) and “Out Of
Order”(2004). She’s also working with Salva Sanchis and is now creating her own project
with dancer/choreographer Leslie Mannes.

Jefta van Dinther graduated from the MTD at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, AHK in
2003. Since then he has been working with various choreographers, among others: Keren
Levi (”Territory and Nano-seconds”), Sanna Myllylahti (”Dark Intervalls”), Leine&Roebana
(”Eye In All”,” Turings Tijgers”, ”Sporen” and ”Les Indes Galantes”) and Martin Butler
(”Phoenix”).

Gabor Varga is a hungarian dancer/performer. In 2000 he got accepted to P.A.R.T.S. in
Brussels. Since then he’s been participating as a dancer or creator in the following projects:
”Dying for a Belgian Beer” (2000) with Zsuzsa Rozsavolgyi, ”Bax Block” (2002) with Gilles
Fumba, ”Matter” (2003) by and with Anne-Linn Akselsen, ”Pas Dodo” (2003) with Zsuzsa
Rozsavolgyi, “The Rabbit Project” by David Zambrano, “Lobster Caravan” by Thomas
Hauert. After finishing school in 2004, he joined the Luxemburg tour of the Rosas company.
He also took part in the “Passion no Patience” project of Sioned Hews.

Peter Lenaerts is a musician and sound designer. He has released three albums of music
(Requiem For John Fahey, In The Meantime, Analogue Root) under the name [‘aisikl] on the
German label SueMi. He has worked together with Mette since Solo Negatives doing
anything he’s artistically or technically capable of. He’s also part of the Rebecca September
collective who have just made and premiered their first performance Knockout. In recent
years he’s been working with various artists (Inneke Van Waeyenberghe, Frances Goodman,
Liv Bugge, Vincent Meessen, Koen Wastijn, a.o) as sound designer, editor, assistant, etc.