Revival PUUR (2005) Wim Vandekeybus for Ballet Vlaanderen

After 19 years PUUR is back on stage! and the original cast (2005) will still be present in the film that is part of the show. Past and present intermingle, both in the theme of the show and now in reality.

Let's go back, no!, let's go on...

Revival of PUUR directed by Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez for the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, premier on MARCH 23rd, 2024.


Belgian all-around artist Wim Vandekeybus is among the internationally renowned choreographers and directors who formed the Flemish Wave in the 1980s. For the first time, Vandekeybus's work has become part of Ballet Vlaanderen's repertoire. This Opera Ballet is thus fully in keeping with the mission to continue to show and pass on important works by Flemish choreographers to a new generation of dancers and audiences. PUUR is an unmissable highlight of recent Flemish dance history.

«In his iconic performance PUUR, Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus explores extreme violence against innocents. Vandekeybus tells the story of a man who kills for fear of losing his power. For this, the choreographer was inspired not only by ancient mythologies and Herod's biblical infanticide, but also by contemporary genocides. In PUUR, Vandekeybus created deeply human character studies of epic proportions. In this hybrid performance, dance, theatre and film come together in a dark universe in which Vandekeybus' swirling movement language and sensual images never lose their poetic power.»

The images of this post are from Hereafter (the film version of PUUR), originally created and performed by Laura Arís, Tone Brulin, Elena Fokina, Robert M. Hayden, Krijn Hermans, Milan Herich, Germán Jauregui All, Jorge Jauregui Allue, Linda Kapetanea, Thi-Mai Nguyen, Manuel Ronda, Helder Seabra, Won-Myeong Won. Music: David Eugene Edwards

Thanks to the young, talented and super committed new cast of Ballet Vlaanderen: Jasmine Achtari, Tiemen Bormans, Anaïs De Caster, Yaiza Davilla Gómez, Lara Fransen, Mathew Johnson, Aleix Lacara I Server, David Ledger, Allison McGuire, Claudia Ortiz Arraiza, Taichi Sakai, Willem-Jan Sas, Rune Verbilt, Brent Daneels, Shane Upton, and their amazing rehersal director Ana Maria Lucaciu.

More info at https://www.operaballet.be/.../pro.../seizoen-2023-2024/puur

DANTE - Coming Soon!

DANTE - MOTIONHOUSE & ECHO COLLECTIVE

-COMING SOON-
JANUARY 2024

We are transported into a dream-like state in which we do not run, but dance. The original music composed by Echo Collective takes us on a journey through landscapes where time disappears and we are drawn into nature.

By Motionhouse / Jamie Lee & Stanislav Dobak

Directed by Jamie Lee

Director of Photography by Stanislav Dobak 

Music by Echo Collective

Starring Laura Aris

Production assistant Louise Tanoto

Camera assistant Kevin Tieku

Special thanks to La Ferme du Château de Corroy


Noche Barroca

Premier on OCTUBRE 27th at Museo Universidad de Navarra, in Pamplona (ES).

A performance where improvisation marks the point of union between three dancers, and baroque music is the common thread and the main reason for this friendly encounter.

Noche Barroca is a collaborative project conceived by Marta Coronado in which the performer and choreographer share the stage with dancers of different ages and artistic paths. This time, the guests are Laura Aris (1977) and Clarissa Costagliola (1997). Each performer will bring her vision of movement giving rise to a conversation and sharing where the individual dance language is represented.

© Beniamir Boar

Premier of Geometry of Breath

Zagreb Dance Company/ ZKM & Laura Arís Álvarez

I'm in the postpartum mood...still echoing the intensity of the last few weeks, grateful for the human and artistic encounters and blissful to have opportunities to create my own stage work.
Long live to Geometry of Breath!

"The final piece that they showed to the Zagreb audience can be "read" on countless different levels, from the fact that geometry is literally present in everything, which is a clear reminded of the light created by Saša Fistrić all the way to which human emotions intertwine and melt, which is excellently shown by the stage use of costumes of the dancers, the costume designer Ana Fucijaš created hoodies in which two moving bodies fit at the same time. And just like in dramatic performances, for which the old Chekhov rule applies, "the gun that hangs on the wall in the first act must fire in the last”, here too, the stones that the dancer throws on the stage in the first scene of the work at its end offers interesting scenes in which the arrangement of the stones that the dancers place around the stage recalls rows of soldiers, but also children in a joyful procession of flowers, showing that everything in life is limited by the way we humans use it, just as the associations to what we see are conditioned by our experiences, but also by the moment in which we live."

Bojana Radovič- 12/09/2022

Geometry of Breath

Zagreb Dance Company & Laura Aris
Premier on September 10th, 2022 at ZKM theatre in Zagreb.

©jelena Jankovic

We are nature, our fingertips pointing towards portals of the spiritual, the incorporeal, the infinite.

We are the collective body, an ancient body, a heavenly body.

We are permeable. Eternally becoming.

We are.

We are together now, creating a new code, a cryptic, spontaneous and absolutely necessary code. The perpetual movement and the ever-connecting energy oscillates, rises, and falls...It expands and contracts, flows, curls, collides.

Scientific data has become the catalyst for extending the habits of the imagination into poetic realms. Modern science tells us of an extraordinary range of interrelationships. Now more than ever, it is clear that we are parts of a whole. We cannot ignore that the sea around us is the same, and our foundations are shared. As far as long as there is an Us.

«What do you contain? The Dead. Time. The light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening up in your gut. Seven metres of intestines loaded with stars (…) We are the beginning. We are before time».

—Jeanette Winterson (Gut Symmetries,1999:02).

TRY - International Training and Research Program for young dancers

TRY - International Training and Research Program for Young dancers based in Lucca, Italy.
From 03 OCTOBER 2022 to 16 JUNE 2023.

Artistic director's Marta Coronado together with Elisabetta Fiorini have designed an intensive education for dancers aged 18 to 22 years old. More detailed information about the very first year on their web page https://try.dance/

It's my pleasure to be part of the guest faculty.

AUDITIONS

FLORENCE (Italy) - SUN 20 /02 /2022

BRUSSELS (Belgium) – SAT 16 /04/ 2022

LUCCA (Italy) – SUN 29 /05 / 2022

WIEN (Austria)– SAT 23 /07/2022