ugo

couple-like

In the creation of couple-like, Keren and Ugo had to deal with the initial discomfort of not knowing each other while working on what can be described as a "physical" piece. By starting from kinesthetic propositions they explore different types of physical interactions which propose couple-like-situations . These couple-like-situations are never played-out but are emerging through the eyes of the observer who is invited into their intimate world of trust, friction and tenderness. Couple-like is a journey of two people searching to be 'as one', of two strangers that are trying to meet over and over again and of Ugo and Keren facing each other, observing in the other what each of them is not. "I'm sticking with you 'cause I'm made out of glue" Lou Reed

I HAVE BEEN

I HAVE BEEN is a short experimental piece that ugo made in collaboration with his family during a residency at STUK, leuven.
it combines a video installation with live-performance.
I HAVE BEEN questions the themes of aging, loneliness, dependency and dissapearance.
I HAVE BEEN could be created thanks to the help of SACD, 1500 hours to dance.

Rozenblad

Rozenblad is a story in pictures about growth and change, about bodies budding,
burgeoning, and blossoming.
This purely aesthetic production conjures up its own unique universe of movement, atmosphere, sounds, and slow
rhythms, a world that gradually draws the spectators into its depths. It is a real dance production, in the sense that it stimulates the imagination
of the audience to interpret and fill out the images. Beautiful! (Tuur Devens in De Bond)
Ugo Dehaes has certainly found an interesting
way of making contemporary dance accessible to a very young audience, without oversimplifying things, and without losing any of its abstract
expressiveness. (Elke Van Campenhout in De Standaard)

ROEST

ROEST [rust] is a piece in which I would like to show two bodies confronted to a machine. by using this machine I want to explore the possible physical borders of the human body, and to push them further.
the machine will manipulate the body that it contains, will try to push it in all sort of shapes, but is conducted itself by a second body.
the focus is on the relation between the two bodies, one manipulating the other; the questions that arise are following: can we possess someone else's body, what are the consequences of a complete dependence on the decisions someone else makes, when does a body loses its function of body and what happens if we consider it as an object, how do we react if things go terribly wrong?
in LIJFSTOF [2000, collaboration with charlotte vanden eynde] I investigated the relation body-object, and the possibilities of the body as an object.
in ROEST [rust] I would like to go one step further: to create body-images by investigating the relation between two bodies.
ROEST [rust] will be a story of two bodies connected and abused by a stone cold machine. two bodies trapped in a spiral of continuous decay, trying to liberate themselves of their rusted minds.the inspiration for ROEST [rust] can be found in the freak show, where people thread human bodies in a very object oriented way, where people often are exhibited and manipulated against their own will.
important for me is this dark atmosphere of the freak show, not the spectacular-painful.
for the creation of the machine I found inspiration in the ''machine célibataire''. this is a term, originally used by marcel duchamp for his le grand verre, for a collection of often unreal or imaginary machines, in which certain contrasts have an important role: the male vs. the female, sexual vs. mechanical, life vs. death.