The dog days are over

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The dog days are over

Création

2014/04/03 — Gand, Campo

Saison

2013-2014

Starting point for the work is a quote by American photographer Philippe Halsman who said back in 1958: “When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.” THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER will be a work that tries to reveal the person behind the dancer. To reach this, a very complex, mathematical, dynamic and tiring choreography is constructed, which is performed almost completely in unison. The difficulty degree of the choreography is so high, that the dancers eventually will go wrong. It is there where the mask falls. The dancer is defined as an idle and purely executing species, striving for perfection. But THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER has also a more reflective aim. It wants to provoke thoughts about the role of dance and art, it wants to question the audience's perception about dancers, choreographers, audience and culture policy: Where lies the thin line between art and entertainment? Who are we as an audience, coming to see dancers suffer as if we are watching bullfights in an arena? Is contemporary dance striptease for the upper class?

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