Skatepark, 26. - 28. October 2023
Skatepark,
26. - 28. October 2023
A real encounter beyond age between individuals who never stop challenging and pushing the limits of their possibilities.
- Duration85 min
- Price360
- StageMain stage
Dates & times
- 26. October - 19:00
- 27. October - 19:00
- 28. October - 17:00 (Sold out)
They fly through the air and defy gravity, listen to music, chat, laugh, sing and dance. At the skatepark, people from different communities get together, syncing their own bodies in coordination with the movements of the others and practising virtuoso physical experiments. In her new work, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen depicts the skatepark as a performative space and expands the common dance vocabulary to include kickturns, 180s and boardslides. Antidote, a global architectural firm specialising in skateparks in public spaces, designs a site that features ramps and rails, a stage setting that is as functional as it is extraordinary.
In Skatepark, ten skaters play with the possibilities afforded by the space, the boards and community in a multitude of parallel actions. A vibrant choreography for the stage, carefully structured and condensed, emerges from everyday culture.
26. October 2023
Background material
Skatepark interview with Mette Ingvartsen
Wilson Personnic has interviewed Mette Ingvartsen for the french magazine maculture.frHere's an excerpt of the interview.
Skateboarding structures the worldview of those who practice it
Several stories could be told about skateboarding as a social practice. In this brief account, I have chosen to spotlight a few motifs through which it still holds allure.
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Moving Socially with Mette Ingvartsen
For twenty years, choreographer Mette Ingvartsen has been creating socially and politically engaged performances.
Contributors
- Concept & choreography
Mette Ingvartsen
- Med
Damien Delsaux
Manuel Faust
Aline Boas
Mary-Isabelle Laroche
Sam Gelis
Fouad Nafili
Júlia Rúbies Subirós
Thomas Bîrzan
Briek Neuckermans
Indreas Kifleyesus
Arthur Vannes
Camille Gecchele
og lokale skatere - Choreographic assistant
Michaël Pomero
- Sound design
Anne van de Star
Peter Lenaerts - Music
Felix Kubin, Mord Records. Why the eye, sonaBLAST! Records, Rrose, The Fanny Pads, Restive Plaggona
- Lighting design
Minna Tiikkainen
- Scenography
Pierre Jambé/Antidote
- Construction set
Construction workshop of Théâtre National Bruxelles:
Joachim Pochet
Joachim Hesse
Pierre Jardon
Yves Philippaerts
Andrea Messana
Boyd Gates - Dramaturgy
Bojana Cvejić
- Costumes
Jennifer Defays
- Technical design set
Stéphane Thonnard
- Sound technicians
Milan Van Doren
Yrjänä Rankka
Filip Vilhelmsson - Lighting technicians
Bennert Vancottem
Jan-Simon De Lille - Technical direction
Hans Meijer
- Production and administration officer
Joey Ng
- Communication
Jeroen Goffings
- Mangement
Ruth Collier
- Production
Oihana Azpillaga Camio
- Production
Great Investment vzw
- Photos
Bea Borgers
- Local skaters
Ísar Steinn Eyvarsson
Stiven Thorsteinsson
Silas Aagaard-Hagen
Adrian Fossli Pedersen
Erik Wangen Johansen
Eline Wangen Johansen
Ilja Skaug Andersen
Marvin Linnes
Coproduction: La Danse en grande forme (Cndc – Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, CCN de Caen en Normandie, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN2 – Grenoble, La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val de Marne, CCN – Ballet national de Marseille, CCN de Nantes, CCN d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France, La Place de La Danse – CDCN Toulouse – Occitanie, La MC2 – Grenoble), Ruhrtriennale, Wiener Festwochen & Tanzquartier Wien, La Villette & Théâtre Chaillot, deSingel, Kaaitheater & Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Next Festival, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, International Theatre Rotterdam, Perpodium
Supported by: Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden
Residency: Rosas, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, deSingel
Great Investment is supported by: The Flemish Authorities, The Flemish Community Commission (VGC), Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government & The Danish Arts Council
