Presentation
GLITCH
Florencia Demestri and Samuel Lefeuvre
With GLITCH, Demestri and Lefeuvre set about decrypting an aesthetic of error.
For this creation, they 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, special effects, video games, have fed our imagination with futuristic technological references, which seem to be getting more and more actual, hacking into our perception of reality. The choreographers want to tackle these themes and
sensations head-on and re-appropriate them on stage. Inspired by the “glitch artists” who seek ways to provoke errors in the flow of data processing to create new images, new sounds, Demestri & Lefeuvre want to disrupt their way of creating movement to reveal potential creative errors and move beyond a possible resolution, towards the unusual, the unexpected.
Therefore, it is not a question of turning a critical eye on these phenomena or on the excessive “technologizing” of our society, but rather to be inspired by them in order to bring out creative anomalies, aesthetic accidents and paradoxically, flashes of humanity, organicity…
ARTE TV short report, “How do you dance a glitch?
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/105628-029-A/gymnastique/
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Teaser
Dates
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
12 March – Festival In Movement, Les Brigittines, Bruxelles (BE)
21 March | Theater Freiburg, Freiburg (DE)
10 September – June Events, Paris (FR)
7 November – Tanz Ist, Dornbirn (AT)
2021
16, 17 June – Les Brigittines, Bruxelles (BE)
14 October – Tanz Ist, Dornbirn (AT)
15 December – Espaces pluriels, Pau (FR)
2022
5 February – La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie (FR)
21 October 2022 / Teatro Das Figuras – Faro (PT)
Crédits
Concept, choreography & interpretation
Florencia Demestri & Samuel Lefeuvre
Light
Nicolas Olivier
Music
Raphaëlle Latini
Scenography
François Bodeux
Light technician
Aurélie Perret
Dramaturgy
Emmanuelle Nizou
Assistant dramaturgy
Jill De Muelenaere
Visual collaboration
Laetitia Bica
Costumes
Vanesso Pinto
Production and tour manager
Arts Management Agency
PARTNERS
Production LOG asbl
Delegate production Vaisseau 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 / dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-Studio, L’Atelier de Paris – Centre de développement chorégraphique national, Centre chorégraphique National d’Orléans – Direction Maud Le Pladec, Theater Freiburg, La Coop asbl, Shelter Prod, Tanz Ist, MARS-Mons Arts de la Scène, Co-Festival Ljubljana (Kino Siska & Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija)
With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la Danse, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, taxshelter.be, ING and tax-shelter services of Belgian federal government.
With the help of Grand Studio,Centre culturel Jacques Franck, DeVIR/CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve Faro
Florencia DEMESTRI
Florencia DEMESTRI
After dancing for choreographers such as Alain Platel and David Zambrano, and being part of different collectives (Peeping Tom, groupe ENTORSE) Florencia Demestri and Samuel Lefeuvre 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.
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
Samuel LEFEUVRE
After dancing for choreographers such as Alain Platel and David Zambrano, and being part of different collectives (Peeping Tom, groupe ENTORSE)Florencia Demestri and Samuel Lefeuvre 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.
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.