© Inneke Van Waeyenberghe
Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove Brussels
Tentative Assembly (the tent piece)
Eleanor Bauer is a talented American dancer who trained in New York and Brussels, where she now lives. Over the past few years she has made her mark as one of the rising stars of the Belgian and international choreographic scene. Greatly inspired by aesthetic, philosophical and political theory, her work puts genuine choreographic talent coupled with an irresistible sense of humour to the service of a very articulate reflection on the world today. Her new creation, the second part of a trilogy which began with A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece), tackles choreography as a place for exploring alternative forms of living together. Making passionate use of the body, dance and movement, Tentative Assembly (the tent piece) invites performers and the audience to come together to construct a space of shared experience. A place of ephemeral gathering, a utopia, where each individual action allows the emergence of new collective configurations…
NXTSTP partners: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival, De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg