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 | ugo dehaesUgo (°1977, Leuven) started to dance at the age of 18. During a year he took ballet classes, followed contemporary dance with teachers like David Hernandez, Benoît Lachambre and Saburro Teshigawara and he followed a half-time theater education at De Kleine Academie. After that year he started his full-time dance education at P.A.R.T.S., the international school for dancers en choreographers directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In 1998 Ugo started to work as a dancer for Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods. During three years he collaborated on the pieces appetite and Highway 101. In 2000 he founded the structure kwaad bloed together with Charlotte Vanden Eynde. The same year they create together lijfstof, a show about the body as material, that would tour internationally. From that moment onwards Ugo creates every second year a full eveing production : ROEST (2002), about the decay of the human body, Rozenblad (2004), a dance perfomrance for kids about the growing and flowering of plants, in collaboration with Laika, Couple-like (2006), a very physical show about the relation between two people, in collaboration with Keren Levi (israel, amsterdam) and FORCES (2008), a bigger visual production based on the universal forces that keep our world together. In the mean while Ugo was also active as a dancers for other choreographers amongst which Sachiyo Takahashi, Emil Hrvatin, Arco Renz, Gisèle Vienne & Etienne Bideau-Rey, Kataline Patkaï, Nada Gambier, Heine R. Avdal ... and as a performer and actor in numerous short movies, little performances and theater plays. Ugo is invited to be Artist in Residence in the art center STUK for the period 2010-2013. |
 | Stéphane ArcasStéphane ARCAS né le 11 juillet 1970 Parklaan 116 1060 Bruxelles GSM: 0032 (0) 486 55 77 15 E-mail: jimprofit@free.fr 2005 -Mise en scène et création de "Billy the kid" au Badaboum Théâtre, Marseille -Exposition "Buyselff", Ateliers d'artistes de la ville de Marseille -Exposition collective, A La Plage, Toulouse -Scénographie de «Peau d'Âne» au Badaboum Théâtre, Marseille 2004 -Mise en scène de La Ferme des Animaux d'aprés G. Orwell au Badaboum Théâtre, Marseille -participation à la performance « Tout doit disparaître » de Laurent de Richemond -I Me and Myself, projections vidéos, Montevidéo, Marseille 2003 -Exposition personnelle, A La Plage, Toulouse -Assistant metteur en scène sur « Comment Wang Fo Fut Sauvé » de Laurence Janner -Exposition collective, galerie Corentin Hamel, Paris -Intervention sur la création « Le Jardin des Délices » de François Michel Pesenti -Exposition « Buyself », Montréal -Sélection de vidéastes de Manuel Pomar, musée d'art contemporain, Toulouse -Création d'animations vidéos pour Blanche Neige, Badaboum Théatre, Marseille 2002 -"Le comité mélangeur", organisé par l'apocope à la machine à coudre, Marseille -Exposition "Black out", VKS, Toulouse -Exposition collective "Buy-Self", à l'occasion de la sortie du troisième catalogue Buy-Self, Palais de Tokyo, Paris -Exposition collective "Buy-Self", à l'occasion de la sortie du troisième catalogue Buy-Self, La Faïencerie, Bordeaux 2001 - Exposition personnelle, Ateliers tohu Bohu, Marseille - Installation "Rua Club", dans le cadre de "Porto 2001, Espaços interactivos, Capitale Européenne de la culture" Aicart, Porto (Portugal) 2000 -Exposition collective "intrigue et provocation", Musée d'Art contemporain de Kaunas (Lituanie) - Exposition collective "Marseille-Varsovie-Vilnius", Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie (Pologne) - "Affiches d'artistes", l'E.N.A.C., Toulouse - "Les Etranglés", mise en scène-performance , dans le cadre de "Taxi-Théâtre", Cie Théâtre vingt sept, Marseille 1999 - "Interviso", Villa Valcampana, Macerata (Italie) - "Sélection Vidéo", pavillon italien, Biennale de Venise (Italie) - "Tir Groupé", Ateliers Tohu-Bohu, Marseille 1998 - Exposition collective, Ateliers A La Plage, Toulouse - "Carte Blanche à Vidéochroniques", Musée d'Arts Plastiques, St Fons - "Plus de 40 artistes", Ateliers A La Plage, Toulouse - Exposition collective, Ateliers En Ville, Marseille 1997 - "Les 25 ans de la Galerie Athanor", Galerie Athanor, Marseille - "Talking Heads" Installation vidéo, festival Méridiens, Aubagne - "Trouver un Titre Expo", le "22", Toulouse - "78, rue d'Alger", collectif, Marseille - "Prise de position", galerie Sud, Bagneux 1996 - "Sélection d'artistes", Ateliers Tohu-Bohu, Marseille - "les nouvelles de l'Art", Galerie Athanor, Marseille - "Echange de Bons Procédés", Ateliers Tohu-Bohu, Marseille http://artcas.free.fr/ http://alaplage.free.fr/ expo_alp/arcas/arcas4.htm http://www.oc-tv.net/stephane-arcas.htm nhttp://grenouille888.org/dyn/article.php3?id_article=643 |
 | Katja Dreyerdancer in Rozenblad and FORCES. |
 | Keren LeviKeren Levi (Israel, 1972) danced in Israel with The Kibbutz Dance Company and Batsheva Ensemble. She left Israel in 1996 and is now based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In Europe Keren worked as a freelance dancer with companies and makers such as Philippe Blanchard (Sweden), Sanna Myllylahti (Finland/NL), Leine & Roebana (The Netherlands), Christine Gaigge (Austria) and Club Guy & Roni (The Netherlands) among others. In 1997 Keren received her first commission from Dans Werk Plaats Amsterdam (DWA) to make Map, a solo piece that was followed by more commissions given by CaDans Festival Hague 1998 and Grand Theatre Groningen. Territory, Keren's first full-length piece (co-production of DWA, Grand Theatre & Monty Antwerp) was premiered in November 2004 and toured The Netherlands by invitation from the Nieuw Theatre Maker Series. Territory won the BNG-prize for the most innovative work that toured The Netherlands through the Nieuw Theatre Maker Series during 2005-2006. Faceless (co-production DWA & Grand Theatre), Keren's 2nd full-evening piece was premiered in 'Something Raw' Festival (Amsterdam, February 2006) and was followed by the duet Couple-Like (co-production Kwaadbloed, Grand Theater, DWA, Vooruit Gent) a collaboration with Flemish maker Ugo Deheas which was premiered in Zagreb, October 2006. Couple-Like is still on tour for the 3rd season in a row all over Europe. The duet has been invited by Dansclick to tour The Netherlands in a prestigious program that promotes cutting-edge performances in the Dutch periphery during March – April 2009. For more information: www.kwaadbloed.com. Out Of Service a project organized by TALA Dance, Zagreb was premiered in March 2008 in Zagreb and was performed in Croatia, Slovenia, France and The Netherlands. Keren’s latest piece The Prize Piece (BNG prize commission) was premiered in the end of November 2007 and will be performed again in Something Raw festival February, 2009. Keren is teaching in the Theatre School in Amsterdam for both the choreography department (SNDO) and the modern department (MTD). She is also teaching company classes for Sasha Waltz & Guests (Berlin) and Ultimavez (Brussels) and teaches in festivals and training programs across Europe such as HJS (Amsterdam) and The Loft (Brussels). |
 | Charlotte Vanden Eyndewww.charlottevandeneynde.be Born in Belgium in 1975. Charlotte Vanden Eynde studied classical dance, modern dance, jazz dance, Spanish dance and African dance before starting a higher education dance course at the Hoger Instituut voor Dans in Lier (Belgium) in 1993. Three years later she joined P.A.R.T.S., the Brussels school for contemporary dance headed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. During her studies she created the short solo Benenbreken, the short duet Zij Ogen and the quartet Vrouwenvouwen, which she reworked after graduating in June 1999. In 2000 she made the duet Lijfstof in collaboration with Ugo Dehaes and in 2001 she created two installation-performances: Ligging for Kaaitheater (Brussels) and Stand for de Brakke Grond (Amsterdam). Since 2001 she collaborated three times with stage director Jan Decorte: for Amlett (choreography, dance and play), Cirque Danton (choreography) and Cannibali! (choreography, dance and play). In the end of 2001 she was engaged as leading actress in Meisje, the first long feature movie by the Belgian movie director Dorothée van den Berghe, which was released in September 2002 and for which she received a best actress award in Amiens (F). In 2002 she danced in Most Recent, a dance piece by Marc Vanrunxt, and she coached the presentation of the graduating collections of the third year students fashion of the Brussels' school La Cambre. In 2002-2003 she followed a part-time education video- and film art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In October 2003 her most recent performance, MAP ME, premièred in artcentre Vooruit. MAP ME is a duet with Kurt Vandendriessche which is currently still on tour. For this creation she received the creation-award 2003 from the SACD-Belgium. In November 2004 she started working on her upcoming creation for 6 dancers which will have its world première on April 15 during the Springdance festival in Utrecht and will later on be presented on the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in May 2005. Charlotte Vanden Eynde's choreographies are closer to performance than to dance. For example, Lijfstof [Body material] is a series of tableaux vivants, which might equally be presented in a gallery or museum. Vanden Eynde's work is akin to that of choreographers like Meg Stuart, Jérôme Bel, Boris Charmatz, Tom Plischke and Vincent Dunoyer, who investigate the basics of dance, theatre and other art forms. Vanden Eynde trained as a dancer at the Hoger Instituut voor Dans in Lier and at PARTS in Brussels. With Benenbreken [Breaking legs], Zij Ogen [They look / Them eyes] and Vrouwenvouwen [Folding women / Female folds] she succeeded in creating powerful productions even before she had finished her training. In 1999 she graduated and set up the non-profit Kwaad Bloed, together with Ugo Dehaes (also a former PARTS student and dancer in Meg Stuart's Highway 101 and appetite). With Dehaes she presented the duet Lijfstof in 2000. Benenbreken, the solo Charlotte Vanden Eynde made during her final year at PARTS, is a sculptural choreography for legs, feet and toes. It at once set the tone for the rest of her work, in which the emphasis is on plastic rather than dancing values, on examining the body, the questioning of the norms of beauty, of the intimate, the vulnerable and non-virtuoso. Zij Ogen, a duet with Sharon Zuckerman, is about how the female body is seen and eroticized, and about the woman's reaction to being looked at. The streamlined yet graceful choreography reproduces as it were the doubling of one body in two (very different) female dancers. Charlotte Vanden Eynde's graduation piece at PARTS was Vrouwenvouwen, a choreography for four dancers. It is a study of the concept of 'woman', which is being folded in all directions like an origami paper. In this piece Vanden Eynde shows her passion for objects and materials for the first time. Even the bodies start to look like objects, when they form a tangle of hair and limbs. In Lijfstof Vanden Eynde takes her fascination with objects, bodies and observation a step further. A thing becomes an extension of the body, the body a thing. This results in surprising, but also sobering images. In 2001 Vanden Eynde created two installation performances: Ligging [Position], a continuous improvisation on five mattresses, whereby images relating to intimacy are created and examined, and Stand, a loop performance whereby Vanden Eynde has three female dancers perform their acts, while she looks on. On three occasions Vanden Eynde has worked with dramatist Jan Decorte for Het Toneelhuis. In 2001 she played the part of Ophélie in Amlett, for which she also choreographed two intimate and delicate dances (a duet with Decorte about love and death and a solo which symbolizes her death by drowning). In 2002 she made a choreography for ten young actors for Decorte?s Cirque Danton and in 2003 she created two graceful dance pieces for Cannibali!. In 2002 she also appeared in Most Recent, a dance production by Marc Vanrunxt, and she made her debut as a film actress in Meisje [Girl] by Doroth?©e van den Berghe. In 2003 she appeared in Van den Heiligen Drien [The holy threesome], a short film by Karen Vanderborght; she is presently attending a part-time course of video and film at the KASK in Antwerp. Her show MAP ME premi?®red in October 2003. Taken from PIGMENT. Currents in the Performing Arts in Flanders , 2003, Ludion & VTi, p 8-13 |