Matty Davis and Ben Gould continue their journey together with the follow-up to Carriage, which opened the festival.
Matty Davis & Ben Gould (US)
Bearance begins where Carriage ended. Carriage consisted of relentless merging of control, empathy and loss. In Bearance performers are equipped with tools forged from their prior experiences and share relationships driven by force, desire or time that emerge simultaneously then disperse. In a mutual effort to find new ways of sharing and supporting each other, bodies press together, then unwind, then press together again. Davis and Gould negotiate private and interpersonal dynamics, and defy each other: to hold on, to resist, but also to let go. The route chosen by the two artists is more open and as moving as ever, but as though it has come of age through each other’s experiences.
Matty Davis is an artist and choreographer originally from Pittsburgh, where his grandfather worked in the steel mills and his dad’s plane crashed. He grew up as a multi-sport athlete, which exposed him to visceral experiences of surface, injury, resilience, and play that continue to influence his interdisciplinary practice. Often collaborative—with other people, the land, and histories—his work begins with movement, mining and cultivating the body’s resources. Empathy, trust, coordination, and energy become key improvisational tools for the navigation of unpredictable relationships and undertakings. In constant dialogue, the body marks the world and the world marks it, amidst an ongoing search for transformation and connection.
Ben Gould is an artist currently based in New York City. Grounded in performance, his multidisciplinary practice is built upon collaboration, intimacy, and urgency – cultivated by a deep interest in how energy is directed, rerouted, transformed and transferred. After developing Tourette Syndrome four years ago, Gould’s studio practice has come to harbor a growing investment in the body; exploring limits, resistance, and the loss of control. Using this condition as a generative force, it has become material and a motor for movement-based performance, driving an evolving practice of energetic restraint, control, and release. Within a growing mythos, a space for fantasy and freedom is created for the corresponding videos, images, and objects that emerge from this process.
Matty Davis and Ben Gould will give a workshop for professional dansers at the Raffinerie of Charleroi danse from the 28.06.21 to the 03.07.21, infos : Visceral Empathy.
Infos
| DATE | CONTENU |
|---|---|
| 2021/07/101630 |
10.07.2021 16:30 KANAL - Centre Pompidou, Brussels Réservations |
The three performances Carriage, Bearance and Severance of Matty Davis and Ben Gould are proposed as a pack to a beneficious price of 12€. Access to the booking here.
In co-production with Charleroi Danse and KANAL – Centre Pompidou.