This event has induction loop.
With child care on Saturday
They fly through the air and defy gravity, compete in trick contests, basketball matches and jam sessions, and race around the course of ramps and rails in countless laps. People from different communities come together in the skate park. Legend has it that skateboarding was born one day, when low waves forced surfers onto the asphalt of Los Angeles. Since then, skateboarding has evolved into a choreography of its own. Now, in our cities, skaters are conquering public space.
Together with skaters and dancers, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen expands the current dance vocabulary to include kickflips, 180s and boardslides - a vivid reminder of her own youth, when she was a skater herself. The stage set was designed in collaboration with a skate park planner and transforms the indoor arena into a landscape of ramps and railings. The performance is far more than just a spectacle of virtuoso tricks. The physically challenging performance flirts with thrills, playfully pushes the boundaries of what is possible and creates a utopian community. Incidentally, a small skate park will be docked on the Kasernenplatz for the entire duration of the festival. Local skaters will also play a special role in the performance: the first scene of the performance belongs to them!
Flip the curtain - from the stage to the street. Who will land the best trick of the festival? After the first performance on August 31, there will be a contest at 8.30 p.m. in the skate park at the festival centre. You don't need to register, just turn up and deliver.
As a part of Theaterfestival Basel.
Duration: 80 minutes
Biography
Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer. From 1999 she studied in Amsterdam and Brussels where she in 2004 graduated from the performing arts school P.A.R.T.S. Her first performance Manual Focus (2003) was made while she was still studying. Her early pieces comprise among others of 50/50 (2004), to come (2005), It’s in The Air (2008) and GIANT CITY (2009) – performances questioning affect, perception and sensation in relation to bodily representation. Her work is characterized by hybridity and engages in extending choreographic practices by combining dance and movement with other domains such as visual art, technology, language and theory.
Credits
Concept & Choreography
Mette Ingvartsen
Performers
Damien Delsaux, Manuel Faust, Aline Boas, Mary Pop Wheels, Sam Gelis, Fouad Nafili, Júlia Rúbies Subirós, Thomas Bîrzan, Briek Neuckermans, Indreas Kifleyesus, Arthur Vannes, Camille Gecchele, Mathias Thiers and local skaters
Choreographic Assistant
Michaël Pomero
Sound Design
Anne van de Star and Peter Lenaerts
Light Design
Minna Tiikkainen
Dramaturgy
Bojana Cvejić
Costumes
Jennifer Defays
Music
Felix Kubin, Mord Records, Why the eye, sonaBLAST! Records, Rrose, The Fanny Pads, Restive Plaggona
Scenography
Pierre Jambé/Antidote
Technical Design Set
Stéphane Thonnard
Construction Set
Construction workshop of Théâtre National Bruxelles: Joachim Pochet, Joachim Hesse, Pierre Jardon, Yves Philippaerts, Andrea Messana, Boyd Gates
Technical Direction
Hans Meijer
Sound Technicians
Milan Van Doren, Yrjänä Rankka, Filip Vilhelmsson
Light Technicians
Bennert Vancottem, Jan-Simon De Lille
Supervisor Kids
Billie Meeussen, Victor Perez Hernandez
Production and administration officer
Joey Ng
Production
Oihana Azpillaga Camio
Communication
Jeroen Goffings
Management
Ruth Collier
Production
Great Investment vzw
Coproduction
La Danse en grande forme (Cndc – Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, CCN de Caen en Normandie, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN2 – Grenoble, La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val de Marne, CCN – Ballet national de Marseille, CCN de Nantes, CCN d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France, La Place de La Danse – CDCN Toulouse – Occitanie, La MC2 – Grenoble), Ruhrtriennale, Wiener Festwochen & Tanzquartier Wien, La Villette & Théâtre Chaillot, deSingel, Kaaitheater & Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Next Festival, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, Theater Rotterdam, Perpodium
Supported by
Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden
Residency
Rosas, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, deSingel
Great Investment is supported by
The Flemish Authorities, The Flemish Community Commission (VGC), Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government & The Danish Arts Council
The guest performance is produced in cooperation with Mousonturm Frankfurt and HAU Hebbel am Ufer.