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Inspired by the literary essay in the tradition of Michel de Montaigne, Anneleen presents three ‘movement essays’, that each place a fundamental ingredient of abstract choreography at the centre. As she explores what their distinct influence is on the dance experience, she also invokes associations, emotions and reflections beyond the field of dance.

With her movement essay On Tempo, Anneleen explores what tempo feels like, how it affects us, and the relationship it has with emotion, genre and meaning. With On Shape she enters into a dialogue with the sculptural aspect of dance, with what shapes can potentially suggest and with the impossibility of shapelessness. In Multitudes, she explores the diverse movement qualities with which she can dance and fully embraces the plurality of her body.

Anneleen brings the atmosphere of the studio, where she asks questions, wonders, is surprised and discovers connections, to the stage, which allows her to share her artistic process in a more raw, intimate and inclusive way. She doesn’t want to convince you of a point of view, but rather involve you in her artistic process. The three movement essays are connected through their passionate exploration of movement and together create an intimate and diverse experience of dance.

Credits

Concept, choreography and performance Anneleen Keppens

Artistic coach On Tempo Pieter De Praetere

Artistic coach On Shape Jolien Naeyaert

Artistic coach Multitudes Laura Dannequin

Lighting design Elke Verachtert

Styling Maria Ferreira Silva

Sound Thibaud Dezyn

Video and photography Stanislav Dobák

Mentor Oonagh Duckworth

Coproduction workspacebrussels

Executive production Caravan Production

Residencies workspacebrussels, STUK, Vooruit, KAAP, BUDA

With the support of the Flemish Community Commission and the Flemish Government

A taste of our creative process

Embodying the Monster - Margrit Shildrick “Accepting leakiness and perpetual process, rather than fighting relentlessly to capture, to fix. A vulnerable openness in the face of alterity, is the very condition of becoming. An openness of exposure that traverses difference. Accepting the impossibility of completion. Resisting the normalisation of the strange.”
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
The essay as a form - Theodor W. Adorno “Thinking derives its profundity from the extent to which it penetrates a subject, not from the extent to which it reduces a subject to something else.”
Point and line to Plain - Wassily Kandinsky “The investigation should proceed in a meticulously exact and pedantically precise manner … which will extend far beyond the confines of art into the realm of the “oneness” of the “human” and the “divine.”
The essays - Michel de Montaigne “As my mind roams, so does my style”
The Viewpoints Book - Ann Bogart and Tina Landau “Composition is a method for revealing to ourselves our hidden thoughts and feelings about the material.”
Living Thinking Looking - Siri Hustvedt “No one can truly escape her or his subjectivity. There is always an I or a we hiding somewhere in a text, even when it does not appear as a pronoun.”
Feel Free - Zadie Smith “To the reader still curious about freedom I offer these essays – to be used, changed, dismantled, destroyed or ignored as necessary!”
Indication de jeu - Erik Satie and Pierre Alechinsky

Calendar

23-03-2019
Bits of Dance - Bruges - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past
28-06-2019
Working Title Festival - Brussels - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past
29-06-2019
Working Title Festival - Brussels - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past
12-10-2019
CC De Spil - Roeselare - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past
11-12-2019
STUK - Leuven - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past
12-12-2019
STUK - Leuven - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past
18-12-2019
Kaaistudio's - Brussels - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past
19-12-2019
Kaaistudio's - Brussels - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past
30-01-2020
CC Strombeek - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past
06-03-2020
CC 't Vondel - Halle - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past
24-04-2021
Leietheater - Deinze - Belgium
Cancelled
Movement Essays
Past
30-03-2022
BUDA - Kortrijk - Belgium
Movement Essays
Past