Samuel Lefeuvre and Florencia Demestri – GLITCH

GLITCH

Samuel Lefeuvre and Florencia Demestri

Hyper-real, or deciphering an aesthetic of error

For this creation, we start from a simple observation: technology is becoming so omnipresent in our lives that we live in a hyper-reality where it is increasingly difficult to discern truth from falsity. Cinema, literature, TV series, video games have fed our imagination with futuristic technological references, which seem to be getting closer and closer, hacking into our perception of reality. We want to tackle these themes and sensations head-on and re-appropriate them on stage.

2019

17-18 October| PREMIERE | Biennale de Charleroi  Danse,  Charleroi (BE)

23 November – Festival IMPACT, La cité miroir, Liège (BE)

27 November – CoFestival, Ljubljana (SL)

2020

21 March | Première allemande | Theater Freiburg, Freiburg (DE)

12,13,14 March – Festival In Movement, Les Brigittines, Bruxelles (BE)

May – New Baltic Dance Festival, Vilnius (LT)

June – June Events, Paris (FR)

June – Tanz Ist, Dornbrin (AT)

November – Hiroshima, Barcelona (SP)

Choreography, concept & interpretation

Florencia Demestri & Samuel Lefeuvre

Light

Nicolas Olivier

Music

Raphaëlle Latini

Dramaturgy

Emmanuelle Nizou

Assistant dramaturge

Jill De Muelenaere

Visual collaboration

Laetitia Bica

Costumes

Vanesso Pinto

Production and tour manager

France Morin & Jill De Muelenaere / Arts Management Agency

PARTNERS

Production LOG asbl

Coproduction Les Brigittines – Centre d’Art contemporain du Mouvement de la Ville de Bruxelles , Charleroi Danse – Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, La Place de la Danse – Centre de développement chorégraphique national Toulouse-Occitanie / in the frame of Accueil-Studio program, Centre chorégraphique National d’Orléans – Direction Maud Le Pladec, Theater Freiburg, Tanz Ist, MARS-Mons Arts de la Scène, Co-Festival.

With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la Danse, Wallonia-Brussels International

With the help of Grand Studio, DeVIR/CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve Faro

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Florencia DEMESTRI

After  dancing  for choreographers  such as Alain Platel  and David Zambrano, and  being part of different collectives  (Peeping Tom, groupe ENTORSE) they now  collaborate together to create hybrid choreographic  works with a focus on bending the audience’s perception  of reality. Through the use of disruptive narrative and intense,  twisted physicality, they invite the spectator to give in to a multiple  and intuitive interpretation of the occuring events, favouring sensations over  meaning. Since 2012, they created together the solos monoLOG and OLGA, the duet  L’Événement, and developped the show Hantologie in collaboration with groupe ENTORSE,  as well as NERF with the korean company LDP. Since August 2017, Florencia Demestri and  Samuel Lefeuvre are in Research Residency in L’L (BE).

A  multidisciplinary  artist born in Argentina,  Florencia Demestri lives in  Brussels since 2003, and works  with different contemporary dance  companies : Les Ballets C. de la  B. (Lisi Estaràs), Michèle Anne De Mey,  Roberto Olivan, Finger Six collective, David  Zambrano, Peeping Tom (Gabriela Carrizo), groupe  ENTORSE and recently with Karine Ponties. Parallel  to her work as an interpreter, she developped her own  projects in collaboration with dancers and choreographers  Claudio Stellato, Piergiorgio Milano, and Peter Jasko & Simon  Thierrée.

Samuel LEFEUVRE

After  dancing  for choreographers  such as Alain Platel  and David Zambrano, and  being part of different collectives  (Peeping Tom, groupe ENTORSE) they now  collaborate together to create hybrid choreographic  works with a focus on bending the audience’s perception  of reality. Through the use of disruptive narrative and intense,  twisted physicality, they invite the spectator to give in to a multiple  and intuitive interpretation of the occuring events, favouring sensations over  meaning. Since 2012, they created together the solos monoLOG and OLGA, the duet  L’Événement, and developped the show Hantologie in collaboration with groupe ENTORSE,  as well as NERF with the korean company LDP. Since August 2017, Florencia Demestri and  Samuel Lefeuvre are in Research Residency in L’L (BE).

Dancer  and choreographer  based in Brussels,  Samuel Lefeuvre has worked  with choreographers Michèle Anne  De Mey, Alain Platel, Lisi Estaràs,  Jérôme Bel and Boris Charmatz, and has  been a member of Peeping Tom (Le Salon, Le  Sous-Sol). In 2007, he founded groupe ENTORSE  with musician Raphaëlle Latini. They created together  several performances and installations, with the complicity  of light designer Nicolas Olivier.