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The moon is the moon is the moon is a dance trio with Anneleen Keppens, Victor Perez Armero and Maria Ferreira Silva, which seeks to deepen the sensorial experience of the viewer. At the basis of the performance lies a complex dance trio. However, the viewer is not immediately bombarded with virtuosity but is first introduced to the different building blocks that make up the dance: recurring shapes and images, connections between dancers, the way the dance moves through space and so on. The choreography breaks open. The many layers of the process are revealed.

‘The moon is the moon is the moon’ mirrors Gertrude Stein’s ‘A rose is a rose is a rose’. By this she meant that the rose does not stand for something else. It does not represent romance; it does not represent love. It is what it is: a flower with a particular smell and color. This dance, as well, is what it is. It is not about something, it is something. The performance invites the audience to establish a relationship with abstract movement and to have a purely sensorial experience.

The moon is the moon is the moon bathes in a lunar energy. The choreography aims to reveal the anatomy of a dance, but lunar energy obscures. The duality between transparency and mystery, between readability and poetry is what creates the warm formalism of this piece. The unfurling, ritualistic nature of the choreography and the music composition by Gerrit Valckenaers invite the audience to penetrate the dance and experience it more deeply.

Credits

Concept and choreography Anneleen Keppens
Creation and Performance
Maria Fereirra Silva, Anneleen Keppens, Victor Pérez Armero
Movement assistant
Stanislav Dobák
Music
Gerrit Valckenaers
Lighting design
Clive Mitchell

Video and photography Stanislav Dobák

Mentor Oonagh Duckworth
Executive production
Caravan production
Residencies
Vooruit, STUK, WP Zimmer, KAAP, BUDA, Cultuurcentrum De Spil
With the support of
the province of West-Flanders, the Flemish Community Commission and the Flemish Government

A taste of our creative process

Susan Sontag - Against Interpretation “None of us can retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said, because one knew what it did.“
The heart of understanding - Thich Nhat Hanh “We see the moon waxing and waning, but it always remains the moon. Form is relative, everything contains the other."
Wheel of Time - Werner Herzog "To show the impermanence of all things created, the sand of the mandala will be thrown into the river, where it will flow out into the world as a blessing"

Calendar

05-10-2017
CC De Spil - Roeselare - Belgium
The moon is the moon is the moon
Past
14-10-2017
X-tract Festival - Bruges - Belgium
The moon is the moon is the moon
Past
27-04-2018
Kaaistudio's - Brussels - Belgium
The moon is the moon is the moon
Past
28-04-2018
Kaaistudio's - Brussels - Belgium
The moon is the moon is the moon
Past
03-05-2018
STUK - Leuven - Belgium
The moon is the moon is the moon
Past
29-09-2018
Denison University - Ohio - USA
The moon is the moon is the moon
Past
27-04-2019
Les Brigittines - Brussels - Belgium
The moon is the moon is the moon
Past