Alexander Vantournhout
n a highly unusual pas de deux combining dance and circus, dancers Alexander Vantournhout and Axel Guérin take to the stage like wrestlers, stripped of all artifice. With concentration, effort, and humour, the performers play on their different strengths. In a constant quest for balance and harmony, their bodies are constantly confronted with physical limitations. Between touching and being touched, the two artists discover their strengths and weaknesses through this challenge.
Concept and choreography: Alexander Vantournhout
Created in collaboration with: Emmi Väisänen & Axel Guérin
Performed by: Axel Guérin & Alexander Vantournhout
Composer: Andrea Belfi
Dramaturgy: Rudi Laermans
Lighting design: Caroline Mathieu
Lighting proposal: Harry Cole
Technique: Bram Vandeghinste
Costumes: Anne-Catherine Kunz
Set design concept: Bjorn Verlinde
Choreographic vision: Anneleen Keppens, Maria Ferreira Silva
Thanks to: Sébastien Hendrickx, Vera Tussing, Esse Vanderbruggen
Distribution: Frans Brood Productions
Company manager: Esther Maas
Production: Kiki Verschueren & Janne Coonen
Communication: Kiki Verschueren
Photography: Bart Grietens
Coproduction : Centre d’art Vooruit, Gand (BE), PERPLX, Marke (BE), CENTQUATRE, Paris (FR), Cirque-théâtre Elbeuf (FR), Subsistances, Lyon (FR), Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU), MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard (FR), Les Hivernales CDCN, Avignon (FR), Malpertuis, Tielt (BE), Theater Freiburg (DE), Théâtres des Quatre Saisons, Gradignan (FR), Théâtre de l’Arsenal, Val-de-Reuil (FR)
Production : Not Standing
With the support of the Flemish authorities.
Alexander Vantournhout is artist-in-residence at Centre d'art Vooruit in Ghent and PERPLX in Marke, associate artist of CENTQUATRE Paris and Cirque-théâtre Elbeuf. He is a cultural ambassador for the city of Roeselare.
Alexander Vantournhout is supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation for the development of his projects.
