Mossy Eye Moor
Creators: Louise Vanneste, Eli Mathieu-Bustos, Alice Giuliani, Maïté Maeum Jeannolin, Amandine Laval, Castélie Yalombo Lilonge, Arnaud Gerniers, Esther Denis
Following on from her solo “3 Days, 3 Nights,” Louise Vanneste continues, with “Mossy Eye Moor,” to explore geological phenomena—and more specifically, the cycle of rock metamorphism. She invites five dancers—both men and women—to explore how we connect to these phenomena, immersing them in the boundaries between the human and the non-human, and between what can be represented and what can be probed. A choreographic oral tradition emerges from stories gathered in the form of scientific information, hallucinations, memories, and sensations, which manifest on stage through various modes of expression and sharing: copying, embodying, symbolizing, explaining, making it the subject of a lecture, immersing oneself/hallucinating, altering oneself… The shifts from one mode of dialogue to another unfold a language that—from the use of a gesture or a single word to the articulation of speech or dance—places the performers in a position to convey and “tell a story.” The five dancers, together with the set design, form six individuals, six science-fiction-like entities named Mossy who share with us what an intimate relationship with the burning of fire or the pressure and heat of a rock 60 meters underground can generate in terms of presence, poetic affirmation, and narratives that are either crystal-clear or impenetrable to direct understanding. "Mossy Eye Moor" unfolds a kaleidoscopic, non-hegemonic style in which sound, text, color, light, and space work together to highlight the gaps in language when it sometimes appears opaque or indeterminate in the ways we speak, tell stories, read, and perceive. Recorded as part of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in 2025.