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Karel Bursenss

Currents

Karel Burssens
Thu 26 Sep and Fri 27 Sep
26 Sep
and
27 Sep

Belgian architect Karel Burssens makes dancer Tarek Halaby dance with a machine, literally. A rotating machine is fixed to the ceiling. Through repetition this installation defines the rhythm, space and lighting, but also the movements of a dancer. This dancer will confront the moving sculpture to redefine the relationship between man and machine.

Burssens pushes alienation in the direction of poetry. The rapid evolution of technology in our ever-changing world forces man to continuously adapt himself. Currents unravels this vulnerable position humans find themselves in. How do we deal with these changes? How do we continuously find a new balance within our own environment? A performance that fits perfectly in the context of Festival van de Architectuur.

In the frame of 10x10 in collaboration with Vooruit, Ghent

Credits

concept & direction Karel Burssens created with & performed by Tarek Halaby dance dramaturgy Femke Gyselinck musical composition & execution Daniel Brandt music publisher Erased Tapes Music Ltd light Cate Carter, Geert Vanhout, Bryte Design costumes Max Doerr outside eye Jeroen Verrecht, Gabriel Schenker film Robbrecht Desmet, Sander Vandenbroucke production sculpture Fisheye production Hiros co-production C-TAKT, STUK, deSingel, Arts Centre Vooruit in collaboration with GC Elzenhof, School van Gaasbeek with the support of the Flemish Government image Karel Burssens

LOD-artists & composers

10x10