Day 1_Aerowaves Dance Festival Luxembourg

Benjamin Kahn « Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me » / Fran Díaz « Born by the Sea »

19:00 Benjamin Kahn « Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me »

« Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me » is a performance choreographed for Sati Veyrunes. Immersed in a vibrant soundscape, the performer makes the audience travel through the exploration of a multitude of screams from the intimate to the collective.

She carries within her the power to speak and to revolt, which gives the work its strength, its political impact and its sense of urgency.

This solo is the second part of a trilogy beginning with « Sorry, But I Feel Slightly Disidentified… » for Cherish Menzo, and “The Blue Hour” for Théo Aucremanne.

Concept, choreography: Benjamin Kahn

Performance: Sati Veyrunes

Music Design: Lucia Ross

Light Design et Stage Management: Neills Doucet

Sound Engineer: Louis Daurat

Dramaturgy Assistant: Théo Aucremanne

Outside Eye: Cherish Menzo

Costume Eye: Carolin Herzberg

Texts: Benjamin Kahn, directly inspired from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Death Grips, Darek Jerman, MAVI

Executive Production: Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Actoral Marseille

Administration production: Léonard Degoulet

Tour development: Sandrine Barrasso

Coproduction: Klap Maison pour la danse, Charleroi Danse, Les Halles de Schaerbeek

Residencies: Festival de Marseille, Centre National de la danse Pantin, Klap Maison pour la danse, Kaaitheater, BUDA Kunstencentrum, Theater Rotterdam

Biography

Benjamin Kahn is a dancer and choreographer. He studied dramaturgy and theatre at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the Conservatoire de Rennes and graduated from ESAC (École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque) in Belgium. After his studies, he collaborated with choreographers such as Philippe Saire, Benjamin Vandewalles, Nicole Beutler, Ben Riepe, Frédéric Flamand, Maud Le Pladec, Egle Budvytyte and Alessandro Sciaronni. He considers dance and choreography to be powerful political tools and is particularly interested in the construction and deconstruction of how we view individual and collective bodies.

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20:00 Fran Díaz « Born by the Sea »

In « Born by the Sea », two individual’s cross paths. Traces of their past experiences overlapand diverge, informing the way they move and the choices they make. Framed byfaded memories and the romantic bleakness of Richie Culver’s spoken word, theirbodies act as living archives, reminding us that while some traces of the pastempower us, others can hold us back; shaping how we move and cope in

profoundways.

Choreography:Fran Díaz incollaboration with the dancers

Dance: SandraBourdais and Louis Steinmetz

Originalcast/Co-creation:Keren Leiman and Paxton Ricketts

Music: Richie Culver, The Prodigy

Lightdesign: KristinaSchmidt

Associateartist and video:Manuel Cornelius

Co-production: Eisfabrik Hannover

Createdthanks to the kind support: of LOT Theater (Braunschweig) and CLOUD/Danslab (The Hague)

Restagedwith the kind support of: Staatsballett Hannover

Biography

Fran Díazis a Spanish choreographer based in Germany. He studied at the National BalletSchool of Canada in Toronto and worked as a dancer with the Leipzig Ballet andthe Hannover State Ballet under the direction of Marco Goecke. He thendedicated himself to choreography. His work, frequently manifested inmulti-disciplinary projects, often explores themes related to the notion ofcommunity, the need for a sense of belonging, or the reconfiguration of one’sphysical spaces and boundaries. He is also interested in the interface withqueer culture and the design of institutional structures. In 2020, hischoreography « Toothpicks » won third prize at the International ChoreographyCompetition in Hannover, and in 2021, he was a finalist at the InternationalChoreography Competition in Copenhagen with his choreography « I’ll do thetalking ». In 2023 he premiered « The Habit », a new piece for the Bavarian StateBallet, and two new pieces in the free dance scene, « Born by the Sea » and « Scheme »,the latter exploring the challenges of structural change by examining complaintprocesses in dance institutions.

Main organiser(s): TROIS C-L, neimënster 

Duration: '50 / '14

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