In Blue Moon Spring, three dancers go on a personal journey of listening and moving to jazz music. They approach jazz as a philosophy, more than a genre. The dance becomes an ongoing conversation. The performers use agreed-upon frameworks as springboards for movements, deviations, and wild ideas. They practice opening to the specific vibrations of each moment and create an improvised dance that we discover together with them.
The musical selection of the piece reflects certain qualities of jazz, such as care, playfulness, friction, in-betweenness, sensuality and celebration. By letting existing music interact with music written especially for the performance, the piece draws history into a contemporary, complex web of sounds.
Each performance is unique: the dancers practice staying vulnerable and passionate through improvisational frameworks, dancing together with their differences, aligning mastery and intuition and dreaming wide awake.
Credits
Concept and choreography Anneleen Keppens
Creation and performance Jason Respilieux, Margarida Marques Ramalhete, Peter Savel
Musical editing and original score Nicolas Rombouts
Lighting design and technical coordination Elke Verachtert
Costumes and scenography Sofie Durnez
Assistant scenography Tim Coenen
Sound technician Théo Jegat
Residencies Charleroi Danse, workspacebrussels, STUK, Cndc – Angers, KAAP, BUDA
Administration STUK
Coproduction Charleroi Danse (BE), Cndc – Angers as part of the Accueil Studio programme (FR), KAAP (BE), Perpodium (BE), STUK (BE), Divert (HR), Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia (SI)
With the support of Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Life Long Burning - Futures Lost and Found co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the taxshelter of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest
Thanks to Vincent Company
Crowdfunding Dirk & Marleen Van Heuven, Luc Keppens & Annemie Vanneste, Freddy Delporte & Catherine De Schepper, Dirk Vermunicht & Gudrun Vermunicht-Joye, Toni Coppers, Karen Joosten, Luc Decreus & Greet Verhenne, Daniel Linehan, Alexander Paklons, Gorka Gurrutxaga Arruti, Noa Liev, Lieselot & Lucas Vanoost, Cesare Zegretti, Thibaud Dezyn, Maureen Gauci, Marc Gauci, Laura Dannequin, Hugo Depoorter, Yuika Hashimoto, Maïté Bouclier, Geraldine Mariën, Ine Mariën, Hanne Doms, Ecaterina Vidick, Ľubomír & Beáta Šavel, Patrick Respilieux & Viviane Van Ertvelde and many others
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