In her dance performance, long-time dance artist Ann Coppola explores the relationship between the moving body and a drawing in a square space. The 6×6 square reflects the distance we have had to keep from each other during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to images of self-discovery, isolation and other universal human feelings in the present day.

A chiaroscuro shows creatures exploring their surroundings with instinctive gestures. Warned by metallic echoes, they gather in a rhythmic choreography to form a pack, revealing a vulnerability that is peculiar to humans. Between control and collapse, their bodies plunge into a frenzied race.

Two men and the steel frame of a bridge: “Rust” is a contemporary movement improvisation that romanticizes the process of oxidation.

The collective “Compagnie Pilolabo”, founded by Tars Vandebeek (dancer and choreographer) and Mathias Goethals (acrobatic and creative artist) creates performances inspired by the interweaving of different art forms.

The central theme of this work is the search for knowledge and the practice of art – without the possibility of a conclusion. A path without end. It is a formula of exposure and variation without reaching a final conclusion. Mistakes and coincidences are an essential part of the creative process. This approach corresponds to a fragmentary view of reality that results from the sum of the different perspectives. Repetition becomes a compositional structure that alludes to the process of searching, of progress, the road to Ithaca (Kavafis) … Moving without progressing, trying to build one’s own rest, to create one’s own space with the body in dialogue with the placeless constructions that surround us.

“Changes” gently illuminates the state of permanent change that is the essence of life, while showing how we can face these transitions with courage and curiosity to find our inner selves.

Following the film:
Discussion with Anja Neubecker

“What you see has a lot to do with where you look from.” “Chameleon” is a vertical dance film by award-winning director Kat Cooley and cinematographer Artuto Bandinelli. It explores a world from three perspectives. What is above? What is below? What is real? What is unreal? What is the chameleon? Drawing on the influences of anamorphosis and trompe-l’oeil, The Chameleon will leave viewers wondering what they have seen – and what they have not seen.

“W-hole” is a dialogue between body, music and space through movement. The piece plays with the ambiguity of the homophones “whole” and “hole” and traces the transience of the self and the search for self-understanding and self-realization through a journey in which the imaginary and the real intersect.

“Herbarium” is a fairy-tale episode, tenderly narrated in the intense colours of flowers and joie de vivre. The choreography, based on a suite by Edward Grieg and performed by the artists and dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre, transports the audience into the world of flora. It allows you to experience a day in the life of a plant, from the moment it blooms to the end, which is immersed in warm nostalgia. The film invites you to immerse yourself in the wonderful world of flowers and leaves, in the greens, reds and purples that fade into the greys and browns of autumn. All this is told with movement, to the rhythm of the dynamic sounds of the Peer Gynt Suite op. 1, played by the Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera.