Invisible memories come to life in a performative haunted house.
How do ghosts manifest themselves today? In a transitional space where echoes and fragments of light wander, four performers let themselves be flooded by gestures, words, images, sensations, memories, hallucinated material and fictions. With a few spotlights, a mirror and a piece of chalk, Music Hole offers a sensory and subliminal journey through our psyche and our beliefs, hovering between dance mania, cathartic performance and contemporary phantasmagoria.
For his new work Music Hole, Steven Michel uses the figure of the ghost to investigate our relationship with time passing, memory and the invisible. Inspired by spiritualist practices and the concept of hauntology, which refers to ghostly traces that infiltrate time, invade the present and generate impressions of déjà-vu, the choreographer explores and translates this ghostly imagination onto the stage.
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Concept & choreography: Steven Michel Sound composition: Raphaëlle Latini Dramaturgy: Lynda Rahal
Created for & with: Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher, Inga Huld Hakonardottir, Marina Sangra & Nathan Ooms
Lighting design Max Adams
Costumes Miguel Peñaranda Olmeda
Vocal coaching Valérie Joly
Sound engineering Jo Heijens
Production GRIP
Co-production Charleroi danse – centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, ICI – CCN Montpellier-Occitanie, Espace Pasolini / NEXT festival, STUK & Perpodium residencies Espace Pasolini laboratoire artistique Valenciennes, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, ICI – CCN Montpellier-Occitanie, Charleroi danse – centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, CAMPO & nona
With the financial support of the Flemish Government & the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest
