Pilot project during the Something Raw Festival 2006
Curated by Hester van Hasselt and David Weber-Krebs

LISA initiated this project out of the urge to widen the context in which dance and performance take place by creating meetings that should ideally provoke a mutual contamination between two universes.

The idea was to put two artists presented in the Something Raw Festival in relation with two writers of a discipline the artists particularly relate to in their work in general or in the piece they are showing during the festival. The fields could range from cognitive psychology to farming, from another art form to laws, from sports journalism to bakery. The ultimate result of these meetings is given by a text written by the “guest writer”. This text will be handed to the audience on the day of the performance. It will serve as a presentation or an introduction offering an unusual (or new) point of view on the presented work.

The selected artists for this pilot project are Christelle Fillod/Yukiko Shinozaki and Diego Gil and the writers respectively Gilles Boeuf (poet and photographer) and Dirk van Weelden (novelist).

Performances

Inner Horizon
Christelle Fillod & Yukiko Shinozaki
15/16 February 21.30h
De Brakke Grond / Rode Zaal

Emotional Architecture of Movement
Diego Gil
16/17/18 February 20h
Frascati 2

Choreographers

Christelle Fillod
After getting a degree at the Beaux Arts National de Lyon and later being invited to Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains, Christelle Fillod travelled abroad to experience and develop different ways of working in the field of Arts, especially in crossing different disciplines, questioning and orientating a reflection on perception.

Yukiko Shinozaki
studied classical ballet in Tokyo and modern dance at Portland State University in Oregon, where she also received her BA in psychology. She worked in New York and Brussels, a.o. with Donna Uchizono, Mia Lawrence, Apostolia Papadamaki, Yasmeen Godder. In 1997 she arrived in Belgium to work with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods. In 2000 Shinozaki started a collaboration project together with Heine Røsdal Avdal and Christoph De Boeck, which resulted in the foundation of a company: Deepblue.

Deepblue
is a Brussels company and production platform for performance, dance, video and installation work. The collective wants to bring about a balance in human and technological forms of communication. In all their productions there are traces of the destructive opposition between what is organic and what is artificial. Yukiko Shinozaki is a core member of Deepblue, Christelle Fillod is an artistic partner. Shinozaki collaborated with Christelle Fillod for a solo piece, Breaking through the roof of its house (2005).

Diego Gil
combined his study of philosophy with that of dance and theatre in Buenos Aires. In 2003 he graduated at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam. He worked with Impure Company/Hooman Sharifi (N) and with David Weber-Krebs (D). He has been presenting his own work in Buenos Aires and Amsterdam since 2004.

Writers

Dirk van Weelden (1957)
studied Philosophy and made twice his début. First together with Martin Bril in 1987 (Arbeidsvitaminen, het ABC van Bril&VanWeelden). Then solo with Tegenwoordigheid van geest (1989). Since then he wrote a.o. the novels Mobilhome, Oase, Orville. Most recent titles are Looptijd (2003) and Straatsofa (2005).
He published in newspapers, week- and monthly magazines, catalogues about a.o. literature, visual art, architecture, photography and running. Dirk van Weelden is editor of Mediamatic and de Gids.

Gilles Boeuf (1970)
studied Philosophy and Photography. In 1998 he made his debut as poet with Gedichten, followed up in 2002 by In het groene licht. A new volume will be published in the fall of 2006.

Texts

INNER HORIZON Gilles Boeuf
Diego Gil Dirk van Weelden

Translation texts: Steve Green
Production: Something Raw and LISA
Thanks to Pieter T’Jonck