The second Fresh Tracks Europe-encounter organised by KOPERGIETERY, ended last Saturday. The generous artistic engagement of the participating choreographers, the young actors of KASK, the workshop leaders, the feedback team and the logistic team created a dynamic that - on this moment - is already leading to new projects.

Different artistic approaches on dance were discovered by the choreographers and the young actors through a daily-changing programme with different workshop leaders;
talks and discussions not only took place in the debate, but also during the last days of work with the feedback team;
dancework with or for children and youngster was presented, often situated on the challenging thin line between dance and theatre.

Participating theatre students were:
Anjana Dierckx, Tiemen Van Haver, Anne-Charlotte Bissoux, Dounia Mahammmed
Feedback team:
Klaus Jürgens, Koen Augustijnen, Johanna Figl, Gerhard Verfaillie, Manon Verstraete, Janni Van Goor

'CHICKS FOR MONEY AND NOTHING FOR FREE' BY HET KIP
'MOOI?' BY BOSTOEN & LEBON
'NACH DEM REGEN' BY JANNI VAN GOOR
U+ME BY GRIET HERSSENS
'A SMALL GUIDE ON HOW TO TREAT YOUR LIFETIME COMPANION' BY JAN MARTENS
'I SEE YOU' BY KABINET K

Choreographers from all over Europe will come together for a seven day workshop, led by Kopergietery’s artistisc director Johan De Smet and choreographer and dancer Hendrik Lebon.
This workshop will revolve around the theme of this Fresh Tracks encounter: the fine line between dance and theatre.
Participants are: Jason Adam Jacobs, Martin Forsberg, Maria Ibarretske, Adriana Cubides, Arend Pinoy, Angela Peris, Brian Hartley and others.

BY & WITH: Gilles De Schryver, Arend Pinoy, Oliver Roels, Yahya terryn, Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Hendrik Van Doorn

Six boys (possibly grown-up men by now – who’s to say?) meet up in a theatre hall.
They tell us their story, frantically throwing their own bodies into the battle.
Against and for each other, to the bitter end.

Bangin' on the Bongo like chimpanzees.
Subjects include money, sex and power.
About boys’ dreams and real life.

CHICKS FOR MONEY AND NOTHING FOR FREE is to be an exercise in happiness. A quest for an ideal world where everything is possible and seemingly devoid of appearances.

Call it dance theatre, movement theatre or physical theatre, CHICKS FOR MONEY AND NOTHING FOR FREE will most certainly yield an exhausting pitched battle in which the six battle-weary bodies must be totally voided before language can prevail.

Coach: Pieter Ampe | production: KOPERGIETERY & het KIP

TIME & PLACE
Friday 16 March 9.00 PM / Kopergietery

A debate on ‘dance and theatre’ will be organised following this encounter.
Starting point for this debate will be a statement by choreographer Janni Van Goor and others.
These statements will be based on the theme of this encounter: the fine line betweeen dance and theatre.
Choreographers, dancers and (youth) dance professionals from al lover Europe will be invited to this debate. It will be open to the general public as well.

TIME & PLACE
Friday 16 March 3.00-6.00 PM / KG RABOT

Two dancers, two puppets and a bunch of limbs on stage.
The puppets are made of a felt-like material, soft and coarse at the same time, held together with rough stitches as if they were the product of a little boy’s clumsy ideas. The border between imagination and reality fades..

U+me balances between dance, visual theatre and puppetry.
This is the first intriguing version of the performance the way it was made by Griet Herssens at the end of her design studies. Down the line, this rough version will be developed into a full performance, incorporating animation.
Good to know: dancer Andreia Rodrigues is also part of First snow by KOPERGIETERY and Vélo Theatre.

Concept, choreography, costumes & puppets: Griet Herssens | dance: Andreia Rodrigues & Joris Focquaert | thanks to KOPERGIETERY, Vélo Théatre (F), de Pianofabriek

TIME & PLACE
Saturday 17 March 3.00 PM (duration 15 minutes /work in progress) / KOPERGIETERY

i see you
is a diptych

about perception
about watching as a question and watching as an answer
about the look that shackles and divides
about the wild tenderness and the soft violence a look can contain

In part one: a child, an old man and choreographer Joke Laureyns.
Connected and separated at the same time in watching one another. One as the shadow, the echo, the double of the other. A hand, a face, a back are minutely spotlighted and become eye-catchers like in a painting. All grown still movements.

In a second part, again : a child, an old woman and choreographer Kwint Manshoven.
They, too, are connected in watching one another. A second painting. More exuberant, more baroque, louder than the first. Contrasting and complementary.

Together: a dance created by two creators who have collaborated as an inseparable duo for many years and who will now, for the first time, work separately. They share a theme, a starting point, a space: i see you is about watching and being watched.

Who do I see, when I look at you?
And who do I see when I look at myself?
Do we see the same things?
What changes between us when we’re being watched?

i see you is a poetic show about observation, about loneliness versus connectedness, about the question whether looking carefully brings us closer together or further apart. It’s a show built out of contrasts and additions, about affecting and being affected, about the game between generations, between the audience and the performers, between the people and both parts of the show.

CREDITS
choreography: Joke Laureyns & Kwint Manshoven | dance: Joke Laureyns, Philippe Flachet, Nini Dormaels, Kwint Manshoven, Kristina Neirynck, Elisa Palm | dramaturgy: Mieke Versyp | scenography: Kris Van Oudenhove | light design: Kris Van Oudenhove | technicians: Kris Van Oudenhove, Bart Westerduin

TIME & PLACE
Saturday 17 March 8.00 PM / KG RABOT
Sunday 18 March 5:00 PM / KG RABOT

FRESH TRACKS INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMME
WORKSHOP PRESENTATION
DEBATE

The first smile after crying.
The picture that is a souvenir of my 8th birthday.
Green fungus on my bread.
That is what I call beautiful.

Butterflies that swim.
Father’s coat that looks better on the scarecrow.
My collection of soap boxes.

Follow me quietly through the night, in the tracks of the waking moon.
I know the most beautiful place.

In this dance performance, dancers/choreographers Sarah Bostoen and Hendrik Lebon look for the beauty and ugliness of things, people and moments.
What is beautiful? What is ugly? Or is is ugliness beautiful?


creation and dance: Hendrik Lebon en Sarah Bostoen | coaching: Steve De Schepper |costumes: Ilse Vynckier | light design: Pieter Verhoeve | coproduction: Cultuurcentrum Kortrijk, with support of CC De Spil, KOPERGIETERY, cc De Stroming, Tinnenpot

TIME & PLACE
Wednesday 14 March 3.00 PM / Kopergietery

The participating choreographers in the Fresh Tracks International Exchange Programme will give presentations of the workshops they followed in the previous week.

Choreographers from all over Europe will come together for a seven day workshop, led by Kopergietery’s artistic director Johan De Smet and choreographer/dancer Hendrik Lebon.
This workshop will revolve around the theme of this Fresh Tracks encounter: the fine line between dance and theatre.
Participants are: Martin Fosberg, Brian Hartley, Jannik Elkær Nielsen, Adriana Cubides, Renate Valme, Arend Pinoy, Maria Ibarretxe, Jason Adam Jacobs, Angela Peris Alcantud.

TIME & PLACE
Thursday 15 March 7.00 PM / KOPERGIETERY

Fourteen young dancers are on stage in Nach dem regen (After the rain).
Together with Dutch choreographer Janni van Goor, they immersed themselves in the world of secrets. They searched for what’s hidden beneath the surface and for everything we’d rather not look at: surpressed feelings, secret longing…

A big source of inspiration for the making of this performance were the intense paintings of Goran Djurovic. ‘Nach dem regen’ is the title of one of his paintings.

Nach dem regen is like one big party.
A party where everybody keeps up appearances and keeps dancing untill the break of dawn. I see… i see what you don’t see….

Concept, choreography & scenography : Janni van Goor | dramaturgy: Wim de Winne | dance: Christian Ambühl, Sara Bagladi, Anne Crochet, Luca De Michele, Marisa Di Vora Peixoto, Milena Hinger, Aymeric Kabore, Nina Kerschbaumer, Joël Rodrigues Lavinas, Florina Marxer, Marlyse Muller, Delphine Puraye, Raphaël Schaefer, Anne Weiler | costumes & decor : Carmen Van Nyvelseel | light design: Elric Vanpouille
production: Traffo CarréRotondes & TAK Theater Liechtenstein | thanks to Philippe Digneffe en de leerlingen van het SKI

TIME & PLACE
FRIDAY 16 March 1.30 PM / KG RABOT

A couple dance in the most literal sense of the word: without leaving each other’s sides, Jan Martens and Steefka Zijlstra show five key moments in a relationship.
A small guide on how to treat your lifetime companion is a wordless moving image in an uspecified small space: an elevator or a kitchen or a cellar or a caravan. A revealing 30 minutes from two people’s lives in which they manage to exclude the outside world for a moment before it forces its way back in again. With a small guide on how to treat your lifetime companion Jan Martens creates a piece about love, a tender and intimate performance both comforting and confronting.

PRESS QUOTE
“….stunning fragility and snow-white simplicity, stripped of all excesses. Jan Martens en Steefka Zijlstra reveal five key moments in a relationship, clear as glass. A small guide… is a test in sensitive dance and narration, and they succeeded. Even the surprised dance-illitarate has to admit: this performance takes you in without you realising.” De Morgen, S. Dierickx

CREDITS
concept en performance Jan Martens | performance: Steefka Zijlstra | kostuums: Olivier Waelkens Coach Peter Seynaeve | met dank aan united-C, Productiehuis Brabant, kc nOna, en STUK Leuven

TIME & PLACE
Saturday 17 March 6:00 PM (duration 30 minutes) / KOPERGIETERY