Zonder

In the organizer's words:

Ayelen Parolin

She loves contrasts, unexpected encounters and contradictions: in ZONDER, Ayelen Parolin explores what dance, humor and social conventions have to do with each other.

This piece for three dancers is an ode to the irrational and unpredictable. The dancers mostly dance without any music, only to the sounds of their own body movements. A neutral stage contrasts with the dancers' colorful, extravagant costumes. Jumping, trotting, stomping, shaking their shoulders and arms, this headstrong trio cheerfully plays with the codes of contemporary dance without taking themselves seriously. The artists occupy the space like a playground, complementing the movement with Strauss waltz melodies that come out of their throats in agony. They observe, imitate, respond and provoke each other, stumbling through the piece in search of rhythm with puzzled expressions. No matter how chaotic it gets on stage, the show must go on! They dance clumsiness and loss of control with virtuosity. As soon as you think you have understood the scheme of the choreography, an amusing or whimsical twist happens. Ayelen Parolin orchestrates the choreographic confusion with intelligence. A hilarious and colorful performance that exposes the intellectuality that some classics of contemporary dance like to pretend to be.

Ayelen Parolin takes up the cudgels for showing the imperfect, in which composition and disassembly are interdependent. In contrast to the conventions of professional dance and modern society as a whole, uncertainty, mistakes and coincidences are permitted and even desired in Ayelen Parolin's choreographies. ZONDER is a kind of continuation of SIMPLE (Festival Perspectives 2023) and the figure of the idiot that appears there. The Belgian-based Argentinian choreographer takes her studies on the relationship between dance and imperfection to the extreme and questions ideological, aesthetic and political conventions. She is an associate artist at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles.