Screws

Usually, a bowling ball has only one function: to knock over as many pins as possible at the end of the lane. But what if you remove this object from its usual environment? Screws turns the relationship between the body and the object around. Objects are fastened to the body, either providing support or throwing it off balance, allowing gravity to be overcome or rather enhancing its effects. With the help of ice shoes, bowling balls, antigravity shoes and other objects, the dancers of Screws defy the laws of physics.

Together with five dancer-acrobats, Vantournhout guides you along a route of reverberating micro performances, from short solos and duets to pointed group choreographies. This site-specific performance invites you out of your seat and guides you on a parcours through a particular building. You can walk around, allowing yourself to be guided, choosing the angles from which you want to perceive each miniature composition

Following up on Red Haired Men, for his sixth performance, Alexander Vantournhout continues with a group choreography. He creates and performs the work with dancer Emmi Väisänen and the four dance-acrobats of Familiar Faces (Josse De Broeck, Petra Steindl, Hendrik Van Maele, and Felix Zech). Trained in both contemporary dance (P.A.R.T.S.) and Circus (ESAC), Vantournhout makes a next step in his quest for the creative, kinetic potential of physical limitations and the relationships and boundaries between performer and object.

Coproducers: Kunstencentrum Vooruit Ghent (BE), PERPLX Marke (BE), MA Scène Nationale – Pays de Montbéliard (FR), Circa Auch (FR)
Alexander Vantournhout is with Screws artiste associé in 2020 in “Monuments en mouvement”, dance- and circus program from Centre des Monuments Nationaux in France.