MARC VANRUNXT: 2001-2010
01. DRIFTING (2002):
this solo by Marc Vanrunxt is a direct confrontation with the audience in a non-theatrical situation. without the protection of a theatre context Vanrunxt moves slowly between the people gathered around him. at one point he even touches some of the audience, very softly. in the mean time the audio work 'Script' by Koenraad Dedobbeleer is playing. a woman's voice describes more than a hundred human situations and thoughts. the physical proximity of the dancer and the audience will be developed in later performances such as Most Recent, Last Pieces and Raum.
02. MOST RECENT (2002):
four dancers realise each an individual parcours in a shared time and space. Salva Sanchis, Charlotte Vanden Eynde, Marie De Corte and Marc Vanrunxt dance apart, together, with, next to each other and most of all simultaneously to a mixture of music such as 50's avant-garde (John Cage), 70's old school rap (Grandmaster Flash) and 80's ambient music. the music however does not influence the rythm and pace of the performers. the audience is seated in a square around the silver floor; everybody is sitting front row. five slow turning mirrorballs create an outer space experience. the scenography is by Koenraad Dedobbeleer.
03. DIEPER (2003):
this a project by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven in collaboration with Marc Vanrunxt. Dieper (Deeper) is a movie, an installation, a space, a portrait,... It is the crown upon their collaboration and on their mutal fascination for many, many years.
04. LAST PIECES (2003):
is an attempt to make a choreography without obvious historical references. this solo for Suzanne Grooten floats and drifts upon the music by Morton Felmdan. Yutaka Oya and his piano are put in the middle of the space. the audience is sitting very close; the idea is to recreate a living room in which we can enjoy the music/musician and the dance/dancer. this is the first of a series of collaborations with Champ d'Action.
05. UNSPEAKABLE (2003):
is a very sharp and transparant dramaturgical construction in a dark universe. this solo for Kitty Kortes Lynch plays with contrasts: light and darkness; inside and outside; the invisible and the tangible. Unspeakable is set on the (anti-) opera Neither by Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett. the scenography, a plastic space, is by Koenraad Dedobbeleer.
06. I LOVE (2005):
I Love Kitty Kortes Lynch, I Love Salva Sanchis and I Love Marie De Corte are three short movies. they are memories of the important collaborations with these three dancers. Kitty, Salva and Marie are ripped out of the performance context and put in another world: in a museum, on the street, in an appartment. these three short movies were realised by Robert Cash and produced by Michel De Wouters Productions.
07. DEUTSCHE ANGST (2005):
is a solo for Etienne Guilloteau. once again a choreography built upon extreme contrasts: soft & hard; geometrical & fluid; melting & freezing. the music by James Tenney is performed live by percussionist Fedor Teunisse (Champ d'Action). Koenraad Dedobbeleer performs a live scenography: that's how a solo becomes a trio.
08. RAUM (2006):
Raum (Space/Room) is a three hour compostional game of proportions, colours, shapes, objects, bodies, cloth and sounds with the focus on the research about duration: time as well as timing. to try to escape the limitations of time and space with the help of Morton Feldman (played live by Champ d'Action), with the three dancers Eva Kamala Rodenburg, Gabi Sund and Etienne Guilloteau and with the two scenographers Koenraad Dedobbeleer and Kristof Van Gestel who manipulate the scenography live on stage. one goal: strong sensations.
09. TRAUM (2007):
is once again a solo for a remarkable dancer. Traum is a piece where form and content alternate and meet each other at the end. Thierry Génicot made a fragile soundscape referring to past collaborations with Marc Vanrunxt in the eighties. Traum is a 'warm' solo in which dancer Gabi Sund takes the time to manifest herself, slowly but surely, as if she were a photo in development. Koenraad Dedobbeleer invented plinths of mirror which reflect and fragment the space.
10. showtitle #63 BLACK MARK by Stefan Brüggemann (2008):
the ambition of this piece was to explore a new dialogue between the visual arts and the art of dance. four artist were invited to deliver an insert in this rather rigid choreography. Bart Meuleman (text), Robert Cash (projection), Sophie Nys (video-loop) and Danai Anesiadou (performance) manifested themselves between, through and over the three dancers Marie De Corte, Eva Kamala Rodenburg and Etienne Guilloteau. because of the sometimes unexpected interventions and manipulations, Black Mark has become a performance in which the audience has to rethink, reconsider and refresh once in a while their thoughts and associations: a truly mental interactive experience.
11. SPECIFIEK (2008):
Lu Marivoet is a specific dancer who asked for a specific solo on a specific location. Blauwe Plekken is an organisation which specialises in site specific choreographies and interventions in public spaces. in Specifiek Lu performs a two hour parcours in a pink dress and on high heels: she struggles against the time, the weather, the architecture; pushing and pulling; falling and crawling. this piece is one overstretched movement in harmony and/or contrast with the given location.
12. EXTRACTION (2009):
three parts, three portraits, three colours, three Eva's: Eva - Private Collection & Eva - Sphinx & Eva - Atom Heart Mother. trying to escape meaning in a very meaningful way. three words: elegant, sexy and elusive. with thanks to: Robert Ashley, Pink Floyd, Maison Martin Margiela, Inge Grognard, David Bergé & Sabina Holzer.
13. LAMENTATIO (2009):
Marie De Corte haunts the empty stage caught in two merciless followspots. she tries and reaches out with her two hands, towards the audience, to the outside world. little by little she disappears into her self, her mind and body. Horror Vacui. Dies Irae. The Onthology of Noise. At the end, there is a crisis, a moment of thruth.
14. For Edward Krasinski (2010)
For the last time in the first decennium of the XXIst century Vanrunxt worked with Morton Feldman's music in close collaboration with Salva Sanchis as co-choreographer, Yutaka Oya of Champ d'Action, Georgia Vardarou, Etienne Guilloteau, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Marie-Anne Schotte and Stef Alleweireldt. One newspaper called the production 'Obstinate Beauty'. This happens to be Vanrunxt's motto since day 1.
15. Zeit (2011)
Five years after Raum (Space) Vanrunxt is going to attack Zeit (Time) together with dancers Igor Shyshko and Eva Kamala Rodenburg, scenographer Koenraad Dedobbeleer, make-up artist Inge Grognard, consultant Marie-Anne Schotte, light designer Stef Alleweireldt and... Tangerine Dream.