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La compagnie Thor accorde une place particulière à la performance, comme espace de croisement interdisciplinaire où les pratiques chorégraphiques rencontrent les autres pratiques artistiques.
Ce soutien s’inscrit dans deux événements différents en alternance : le tremplin (Pas si) Fragile! les années paires, le festival international TROUBLE les années impaires.
Le festival Trouble
Les années impaires, le festival investit tous les recoins du Studio Thor, et de nombreux lieux dans les environs, voire plus loin. Des lieux de culture comme le Musée Charlier, les Ateliers Mommen, KANAL, Point Culture, le Centre culturel arabe, la Maison des arts de Schaerbeek, le Théâtre La Balsamine … mais aussi églises, salles de sport ou de mariage, boîtes de nuit, préaux d’écoles, musées désaffectés, maisons associatives, hôtels, parcs, places et rues de Saint-Josse, Bruxelles ou Schaerbeek … A la faveur de cette programmation in situ, de nombreux projets ont une dimension socio-artistique, parfois participative.
Prochaine édition
Le tremplin (Pas si) Fragile!
La biennale met en lumière de jeunes artistes impliqué·es dans l’art de la performance, récemment issu·es des écoles d’arts de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. Avec une formule spécifique à chaque édition (3 jusque ici), chacune d’elle vise à réunir une dizaine de jeunes artistes issu·es de l’ENSAV-La Cambre (incluant le Master Danse), l’erg, l’ARBA-ESA (et la formation ISAC), l’ESA Le 75, les Beaux-Arts de Liège, l’Académie de Tournai, Arts2 à Mons.
Dernière édition
Trouble
Les années impaires, le festival investit tous les recoins du Studio Thor, et de nombreux lieux dans les environs, voire plus loin. Des lieux de culture comme le Musée Charlier, les Ateliers Mommen, KANAL, Point Culture, le Centre culturel arabe, la Maison des arts de Schaerbeek, le Théâtre La Balsamine … mais aussi églises, salles de sport ou de mariage, boîtes de nuit, préaux d’écoles, musées désaffectés, maisons associatives, hôtels, parcs, places et rues de Saint-Josse, Bruxelles ou Schaerbeek … A la faveur de cette programmation in situ, de nombreux projets ont une dimension socio-artistique, parfois participative.
Trouble #12 : « It’s about time »
The forthcoming Brussels performance art biennial will focus on time in all its facets: time saved and time lost, time stolen or being out of time, time loops or generational gaps, protracted experiences or intensely brief moments. It’s high time that Trouble comes back to trouble you!
Trouble #12, It’s About Time: it’s the question of time (and especially the time we allow for ourselves, that we give to relationships and to works so that they can resonate) that will be at the heart of the Brussels biennial performance. To survey notions of historical time, stolen time, out-of-time, time loops, generational differences, protracted periods … or on the contrary, very brief moments. Are you losing your bearings? It is high time that Trouble comes back to trouble you!
From 17th to 23th April 2023, at Studio Thor, in the vicinity, or even further away – the online program will be available at the end of February 2023.
(Pas si) Fragile!
La biennale met en lumière de jeunes artistes impliqué·es dans l’art de la performance, récemment issu·es des écoles d’arts de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. Avec une formule spécifique à chaque édition (3 jusque ici), chacune d’elle vise à réunir une dizaine de jeunes artistes issu·es de l’ENSAV-La Cambre (incluant le Master Danse), l’erg, l’ARBA-ESA (et la formation ISAC), l’ESA Le 75, les Beaux-Arts de Liège, l’Académie de Tournai, Arts2 à Mons.
European projects
As part of the two festivals devoted to performance, Trouble and (Pas si) Fragile!, Compagnie & Studio Thor will be right at the heart of two pan-European projects: the first, Time For Live Art brings together four performance festivals, those of Ljubljana, Turku, Athens and Brussels, while the second Performer l’identité is a showcase nomadic program focusing on the training and practice of performance art.
With the support of the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, “Time For Live Art” is a project shared by Studio Thor / Festival Trouble (BE), Maska / Performance Festival (SI), New Performance Turku Biennial (FI) and MIRfestival (GR).
Time For Live Art
Time For Live Art will see four human-scale performance art festivals in Ljubljana, Turku, Athens and Brussels join forces in order to highlight how resilient the performance art sector is amidst this modern world in the throes of healing its environmental and public health wounds.
Convinced of the need to come together around a live and vibrant event, the four participating partners will engage with each other and address questions on time’s multiple facets: how to create, present, and disseminate performing arts works: Time set aside to intertwine the creative activity to a given context; time to fully experience the work; time to facilitate its presentation; time for the artist to work, and time to cultivate the public’s memory.
A 22-month project that will take place in Brussels, notably during Trouble #12 festival (from 18 thru 22 April 2023) and the 2024 edition of (Pas si) Fragile! In addition to young artists from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, it will host up-and-coming Greek, Slovenian and Finnish creators, as well as a cohort of young Polish and Irish artists, as part of the partnership with the Performer l’identité project.
Compagnie & Studio Thor is moreover a partner in the Erasmus + strategic partnership project led by ENSAV-La Cambre, culminating in its participation at the festival (Pas si) Fragile!
Performer l’identité
Performer l’identité is a nomadic program of training and practice for performance art that will take place, on an ad-hoc basis, over the upcoming two academic years (2022-2023 and 2023-2024).
Focused on the question of identity, this project proposes a series of workshops devoted to artistic practice, professional and theoretical meetings, visits to festivals, as well as the realization of performances in diverse public settings and venues. A living archive will be built up throughout the project. At a festival open to the public and professionals alike, students will present their works in a thoughtful and creative way.
Bringing together four art schools – ENSAV La Cambre and ESA Le 75 in Brussels (BE), UAP in Poznan (PL), Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan (IRL) – and three festivals – Verão Azul in Lagos (PT), New Performance Turku in Turku (FI) and (Pas si) Fragile! in Brussels (BE), this program is aimed at some fifteen students of higher arts education practising performance art.
Merging these two European projects will thus lead to an intensely compact edition of (Pas si) Fragile! (renamed (Not So) Fragile! for the occasion) during April and May 2024, bringing together, in addition to the fifteen artists participating in Performer l’identité five other artists from Greece, Finland and Slovenia, as well as the customary selection of a dozen emerging artists recently graduated from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles’s écoles supérieures des arts.
