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