Rituels du désordre / 2022

In the history of carnivals, bacchanals, feasts of fools and other carnivals, bodies go wild and dance to reverse the social order, mock hierarchy and regenerate nature and society. The Rituals of Disorder are an invitation to participate in this experimentation in order to enjoy a moment of sharing in rupture with the day-to-day. Together, artists and audiences, let us test the vital force of dance and music as a unifying and emancipating power to be both null and marvelous, in joy and celebration.

Conception: Leslie Mannès, Thomas Turine, Vincent Lemaître.
Chorégraphie: Leslie Mannès. Composition musicale: Thomas Turine. Création lumière: Vincent Lemaître Conseillère artistique: Joëlle Bacchetta. Création danse / guidances: Daniel Barkan, Gilles Fumba, Amélie Marneffe, Manon Santkin , Marco Torrice. Programmation: Emmanuel Pire. Costumes et scénographie: Marie Artamonoff. Couture: Patricia Gelise. Assistanat: Amélie Marneffe. Coach chikung: Franck Baal. photographie: Laetitia Bica

Production ASBL Hirschkuh. Développement et diffusion: Bloom Project : Stéphanie Barboteau. Coproduction: Mars – Mons arts de la scène (Be), Théâtre Varia (Be), Charleroi Danse (Be), La Place de la Danse (Fr), Bora Bora Art Residency Center (Aarhus – Dk). Soutien: Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles – service de la danse, WBI, WBTD. Accompagné par le Grand Studio (Be).

Forces 2019

“Best Dance Show for the 2020 Maeterlinck Critics’ Awards”

FORCES is a futuristic and immersive ritual where three female figures carry us away in a whirlwFORCES is a futuristic and immersive ritual where three female figures carry us away in a whirlwind of primary, telluric and technological forces. Like cyborg warrior shamans, these smugglers draw on the invisible, to make their bodies the vector of a vital, collective, emancipatory metamorphosis.

In the wake of ATOMIC 3001, Leslie Mannès, Thomas Turine and Vincent Lemaître continue to explore the triangular and fusional relationship between body, sound and light, in order to provoke in the viewer a sensory, total and inclusive experience.

FORCES uses the irrational to celebrate the power of the living by featuring a permeable body in constant mutation, a body connected to the elements, to chaos, to joy and to the community trying to re-appropriate its power from within .

Forces est un rituel futuriste et immersif où trois figures féminines nous emportent en un tourbillon de forces primaires, telluriques, et technologiques, en une nécessaire célébration du vivant. Telles des chamanes guerrières cyborgs, ces passeuses puisent dans l’invisible, pour faire de leurs corps, le vecteur d’une métamorphose vitale, collective, émancipatrice. Dans le sillon d’Atomic 3001, Leslie Mannès, Thomas Turine et Vincent Lemaître continuent d’explorer la relation triangulaire et fusionnelle entre le corps, le son et la lumière, afin de provoquer chez le spectateur une expérience sensorielle, totale et englobante.

Conception Leslie Mannès, Thomas Turine & Vincent Lemaître | Choreography Leslie Mannès | Original live music Thomas Turine | Light creation Vincent Lemaître | Creation and interpretation Leslie Mannès, Mercedes Dassy, Daniel Barkan | Costume creation Marie Artamonoff | Artistic advisor Joëlle Bacchetta | Photo Laetitia Bica/Espèces, Hichem Dahes | Distribution BLOOM Project 

Production Asbl Hirschkuh | Coproduction Les Brigittines (Be), Le Gymnase – CDCN Roubaix (Fr) as part of the reception studio program | With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation – dance service, SACD Beaumarchais, SACD Belgium, La Balsamine, Cosipie, Charleroi-Danse, René Magritte cultural center (Lessines – Be)

Atomic 3001 – 2016

A monochrome red figure in the center of space. All the spotlights are directed towards this figure. The light reveals it, draws it, burns it. The sound fills her body and space, it sets her in motion in a martial, repetitive manner. This sound leads him relentlessly to exhaustion, trance and incandescence.

ATOMIC 3OO1 is a futuristic ritual in which a being, subjected to a perpetual and unstoppable pulsation, is in the grip of a form of physical alienation. In this infernal dancing machine, there is communion, but also a frantic pace to follow.

Starting from tribal dance and its contemporary analogue, Techno, Atomic 3001 is an unsuspected quest at the heart of a primitive survival drive.

Concept Leslie Mannès, Thomas Turine & Vincent Lemaître Choreography and interpretation Leslie Mannès | Electronic Live Music Sitoïd (Thomas Turine) | Light Vincent Lemaître | Artistic collaboration Joëlle Bacchetta | Photo credit Hichem Dahes | Distribution BLOOM Project 

Production Asbl Hirschkuh in collaboration with Cossipie asbl Coproduction Les Brigittines | With the support of VAT, Théâtre la Balsamine, WBTD, Promotion de Bruxelles, and Wallonie Bruxelles International.