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Again Forever

Lisa Vereertbrugghen
Thu 19 Mar - Fri 25 Sep

Dance as resistance: the ‘slow’ as the slow sister of rave dance

Over the past twelve years, Lisa Vereertbrugghen has explored the political and physical dimensions of (hardcore) techno music and dance. With Again Forever, she expands her research to a social dance at the other end of the speed spectrum: the slow dance.

Again Forever approaches the slow dance as a potentially subversive dance, a slow sister to rave dancing. The performance focuses on the radical way in which the slow dance deals with intimacy and time in an era dominated by productivity, speed, and isolation. The slow dance is taken out of its traditional context and connected to today's queer nightlife. Slow dancing becomes a collective practice and a form of resistance, a slow rave.

 

Duration: 60 minutes 

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IN THE PRESS

"Again Forever brings the slow dance back to the dance floor." - Nina Dillen in De Tijd

"A real gem of a piece." - Mathieu Lonbois on VRT NWS

“With microscopic precision, she shows how the slow dance is like a peat fire that can flare up somewhere every night." - Pieter T’Jonck in pzazz

"You can feel the shudder running through your body. As if the world around you is fading away and only that tile remains." - Liv Laveyne in De Standaard

"Lisa Vereertbrugghen proves herself to be a choreographer of masterful miniatures that demonstrate how a slow dance is a revealing exercise in respecting one another’s boundaries, reading one another’s desires, and loving one another." - Els Van Steenberghe in Knack Focus

Maker

Lisa Vereertbrugghen

Director

Credits

concept & choreography Lisa Vereertbrugghen co-creation & dance Ife Day, Sophie Guisset, Cynthia Loemij & Maisie Woodford dramaturgy Nathan Ooms sound Michael Langeder song Higher by Langeder & Vereertbrugghen light design Vera Martins outside eye Maria Ferreira Silva & Mads Bycroft choreographic advice Arno Ferrera production CAMPO coproduction Kunstenwerkplaats & Kaaitheater (Brussel), Concertgebouw & KAAP (Brugge), De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam), STUK (Leuven), VIERNULVIER (Gent) & DDD — Festival Dias da Dança (Porto)  with the support of the taxshelter of the Belgian Federal Government via Ufund, BUDA (Kortrijk), de Hallen van Schaarbeek & de Vlaamse overheid

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