PerformanceCamping

RUSH

Mette Ingvartsen

Mette Ingvartsen, RUSH © Bea Borgers
Mette Ingvartsen, RUSH © Bea Borgers

22 > 24.10.24

CN D Pantin

How do you retrace a choreographic work without robbing it of its vitality, or exhibit it without turning it into a museum piece? Every journey requires a guide. Choreographer Mette Ingvarsten invited one of her long-time dancers, Manon Santkin, to join her in articulating the story of what “makes a dance piece”. Drawing on ten pieces on which they have collaborated, they have transformed a set of extracts into “acts of imagination”, giving substance to questions; for twenty years, Mette Ingvarsten’s work has explored the troubled zones of nudity, sexuality and pleasure, shaping shifting landscapes, dancing the vagaries of matter. RUSH infuses these contradictory states like a concentrate of movements and words, underscoring the importance of the performer in the choreographic process: the performer’s body as a world, capable of summoning the past of gestures to actualize them in the present

Mette Ingvarsten

The work of choreographer and dancer Mette Ingvarsten blends performance, installation, theory and music, exploring the states of the body in its physical, organic and social dimensions. Since her early works such as 50/50 and To Come, she has been scrutinizing representations by pushing the body to its limits. With The artificial nature series, she examines the workings of complex ecosystems, and the relationship between the human and the non-human, while the series initiated with 7 pleasures or 21 pornographies examines the political and imaginary ramifications of sexuality.

Production: Great Investment vzw

Co-production: STUK co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union in the frame of DANCE ON PASS ON DREAM ON, VIERNULVIER, Festival Montpellier Danse 2024, Tanzquartier Wien, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, SPRING, CND Centre national de la danse, Perpodium Great Investment is supported by The Flemish Authorities, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, The Danish Arts Council & The Flemish Community Commission (VGC)