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WOMEN

After the international success-duet couple-like (2006*), a performance that has been presented over 100 times, and the magical group-piece FORCES(2008**), belgian choreographer Ugo Dehaes will work now with eight female dancers on his new big dance-piece WOMEN. Ugo will work with these women on very physical material and awkward situations; by molding their movements in such a way, and by determining their breath, the audience will be able to actually feel this piece under their skin, live it along with the dancers.
Departing from a male perspective, these women show different aspect of their being, but at the same time this group-choreography allows the personality of each woman, dancers between 30 and 55 - some of them mothers, to float up and become bright clear, and to give a true female touch to this performance.
* The strongest contact that is imaginable. The movements are very inventive. It is fascinating to see which positions, challenges and confrontations that are possible between these two people. (Leidsch Dagblad about couple-like)
** Ugo Dehaes manages to put a fresh mark on pure scientific abstract matters. He always succeeds at touching choreographies which are extremely pure, playful and poetic. (De Standaard about FORCES) research:
DANCERS! project, 2 minutes improvisation on breathing [RAFFINERIE, Brussels april 2009]
GRID, study on being upside/down [STUK, Leuven june 2009]
Dag van de Cultuureducatie, solo [STUK, Leuven january 2010]
Short Cut @ Something Raw, meeting and presentation with Nico Frijda [Frascati, Amsterdam february 2010]
Move Me Festival, study for 4 women [STUK, Leuven march 2010]
17 - 29 may, study for 6 women [STUK, Leuven]

FORCES

FORCES is dance piece that is inspired by the four universal forces that keep our world together: gravity, electro-magnetism, the weak nuclear force and the strong nuclear force.
Flemish choreographer ugo dehaes worked over a period of one year with many dancers during very short periods (mostly two weeks) to create scenes that translate physics into powerful physical scenes and amazing images.
Each show of FORCES is presented as a collection of short stories: all scenes are shown independently. The playlist varies from venue to venue, and is often chosen in collaboration with the programmer of the inviting theatre.

GRID

GRID is the new research project by ugo dehaes.
During the month of june 2009 ugo works on a new piece that should premiere in 2010.
it is the first project he makes as artist in residence in STUK, leuven.

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