Category Costumes

Sawata is a powerful solo born from an intimate loss, a journey between memory and rebirth. Drawing on both House Dance and Pan-African dance traditions, dancer and choreographer Nadeeya taps into her Cameroonian roots to explore the symbolism of water—fluid,…

Video : Jan Bosteels When KVS face Pitcho Womba Konga (known for his creations Kuzikiliza and Fire will become ashes, but not now) encountered the novel L’amour est très surestimé (Love Is Very Overrated) by French-Algerian writer Brigitte Giraud a few years back,…

In Mimi’s Shebeen, Alesandra Seutin takes the audience, through dance, text, song and music, into the depths of a deconstructed shebeen. Inspired by the exiled South African singer Miriam Makeba, she draws on her legacy as a political activist to tell…

B**** (pronounced BITCH) is a solo performance that invites the audience to explore the shadowy aspects of the character portrayed on stage. It is an intimate moment, a sharing of the darker points in the life of a young woman,…

In an object commonly referred to as a “costume,” three dancers share trouser legs, sleeves, or overalls, forming a mobile three-bodied unit where every part is interdependent. Functioning as a sort of three-person being—somewhere between acting and letting go—this performance…

In 1999, the Charleroi Dance Biennial structured its program around the notion of “gender,” for which Thierry Smits proposed a counterpoint to his earlier work Cyberchrist with this solo whose camp aesthetic explores artifice, femininity and extravagance. The piece draws on…