Screenings : Films - Programme 2
Jean Michel Bruyère / LFKs
3 >13 august 2010, 10:00 > 18:00
Tuesday 3, Thursday 5, Monday 9, Wednesday 11 and Friday 13 August
10:00>12:00 : Nous irons très lentement car il y a trois camps (40’) - loop
12:00-14:00 : Une semaine de journal clandestin (22’) - loop
14:00 : L’Insulte faite au paysage (70’)
15:20: Elements of a Naked Chase (57’)
16:20: Elements of a Naked Chase (57’)
Free entrance
Workshop : Le Beau Fixe.
Jean Michel Bruyère / LFKs
2 >13 august 2010, 10:00 > 18:00
Multidisciplinary artist Jean Michel Bruyère, and Jean-Paul Curnier (philosopher, writer, editor) propose a workshop in which concepts such as three-gear-city, urban ghetto, multi-ethnicity, racism and racialization, relegation, inequity and repression will be tackled in order to radically change stereotypes used in art and culture. The result of these discussions will be visible to the public through an installation that will be created in parallel, as well as through specific actions in the city.
Free entrance
Screenings : Films - Programme 1
Jean Michel Bruyère / LFKs
2 >12 august 2010, 10:00 > 18:00
Monday 2, Wednesday 4, Friday 6, Tuesday 10, Thursday 12 August
10:00>12:00 : Une semaine de journal clandestin (22’) - loop
12:00>14:00 : Nous irons très lentement car il y a trois camps (40’) - loop
14:00: Elements of a Naked Chase (57’)
15:10: L’insulte faite au paysage (70’)
16:30: L’insulte faite au paysage (70’)
Free entrance
Put in Voice : Cinq/Sept, Happy Hours
Rachid El-Daïf, Rahim Elasri
wednesday 30 june 2010, 21:30
Rahim Elasri turns his attention again to the work of Rachid El-Daïf, of which he adapted three novels for the stage in January 2009, in La Bellone. This time, the author wrote for the stage. Against the background of the East and of modernity, this fragmentary and intermittent assemblage, as in the previous approach of his work, places the couple as a central theme. The intimate sexual representation of the couple is still surrounded by taboo in the Arab-Muslim world. But this time, the theatrical proposition will investigate the theme of diversity. The diversity of languages: the actors speak several languages; the diversity of cultures: actors of Arabic and of European origin; the diversity of contents and genres: videos, images, sounds, paintings will be displayed; and the diversity of reactions to modernity.
Free Entrance – Booking adviced
Monstration : Ça
Ève Bonneau
monday 28 june 2010, 19:30
In Ça, the public place does not concern only the spectators but all the individuals present in a place of demonstration. There are no performers, instead, persons who act and express themselves as 'actants'; there are no spectators but 'witnesses' of the event. All, ‘actants’ and witnesses are subjects of the performative act, given that they occupy the same zone of visibility. The ‘actants’ reveal and develop the subject. Ça is interested in interiors in order to transpose the notion of public place into a place of performance. In Ça the human event is social. Two persons in a room is a relationship. A whole group is a complex network of listening, perceptions and repercussions.
Free Entrance – Booking mandatory
CIFAS (SUITE...) : Formation – Scènes d'ailleurs
Albane Ahrens, France
friday 25 june 2010, 10:00 > 16:30
Explore the national characteristics of selected countries through their distribution networks and respective way of functioning. Understanding institutions, identifying major players, discovering different networks within a country and finding a way in, analyzing aesthetic trends of the country. These sessions are aimed at tour managers and producers who want to work internationally and would like to have a clear vision and understanding of some countries. Participants are invited to bring their own study cases.
Laure Guazzoni is a trainer and consultant at “La Belle Ouvrage” of which she is co-director since October 2006. She also co-directs the production office “Et bientôt...” accompanying several artistic projects and leads missions with cultural structures.
CIFAS (SUITE...) : Formation – Scènes d'ailleurs
Luca Scarlini, Italie
friday 18 june 2010, 10:00 > 16:30
Explore the national characteristics of selected countries through their distribution networks and respective way of functioning. Understanding institutions, identifying major players, discovering different networks within a country and finding a way in, analyzing aesthetic trends of the country. These sessions are aimed at tour managers and producers who want to work internationally and would like to have a clear vision and understanding of some countries. Participants are invited to bring their own study cases.
Luca Scarlini was the artistic director of the Festival MilanOltre in Milan, and worked as a playwright and translator with Motus, Fanny & Alexander and Societas Raffaello Sanzio.
Elsewhere: at the Raffinerie : Scène de Méninges #4
David Wampach, Ayelen Parolin, Marc Vanrunxt, Marie de Corte.
wednesday 16 june 2010, 19:30
Brussels hosts one of the biggest communities of dance in the world, through the numerous Flemish or French-speaking companies which are based there, also thanks to the numerous foreign artists who pass in transit for various lengths of time, and the presence of PARTS. Brussels also has about twenty venues which regularly schedule dance. But numerous dancers and choreographers do not find spaces for presentation; programming is not well coordinated and sometimes ends in absurd 'traffic jams' - no place is specifically intended for representations of dance…
Booking : fabienne@charleroi-danses.be
5 €
Monstration : Robots
Sébastien Chollet & Bruno Marin
monday 14 june 2010, 19:30
In a no-man's-land, two specimens of robots wait. Their programmers abandoned them a long time ago. Left on their own, they have nothing else to do than randomly test the software inoculated into them by the living. In the mode of comic burlesque poetry, Sébastien Chollet and Bruno Marin investigate the instincts of the human being. Having experimented with hyper-activity, then the mode on/off, our two bio-inspired humanoids envisage for this third and last Monstration the synthesis of these two states. Activity and vacuity. Dispersal and concentration. Enthusiasts always on the watch, they test some life- energies and other alternating currents. Electric.
Free Entrance – Booking mandatory
CIFAS (SUITE...) : Formation – Scènes d'ailleurs
Pieter Zeeman, Pays-Bas
friday 11 june 2010, 10:00 > 16:30
Explore the national characteristics of selected countries through their distribution networks and respective way of functioning. Understanding institutions, identifying major players, discovering different networks within a country and finding a way in, analyzing aesthetic trends of the country. These sessions are aimed at tour managers and producers who want to work internationally and would like to have a clear vision and understanding of some countries. Participants are invited to bring their own study cases.
Pieter Zeeman leads the international department of the Performing Arts Fund Nederland where he deals with international cultural policies and the international subsidy program.
(In English)
Composite #11 : Hors format
Ayelen Parolin, Dimitri Coppe, Gaëtan Rusquet, Jamil Bahri, Radical Hope, Richard DeDomenici
monday 7 june 2010, 19:00
Neither spectacular show, nor intrigue with a beginning and an end, nor red seats, nor pop corn, nor Red Army choirs, nor Comme d’habitude… but a Composite even more puzzling than usual, with a first exploration in MAL(e), from the choreographer Ayelen Parolin; Effervescence, a man in socks and a few fluffy toys in a concert-installation by Dimitri Coppe with forty audio characters and as many loudspeakers; Point de départ – Point de fuite by the performers Gaëtan Rusquet and Jamil Bahri; More than 5 minutes, the artistic-citizen action led by Radical Hope in the neighborhood since September, and Carry OK Karaoké by the British live artist Richard De Domenici.
7€ / 5€ / 1,25€ (Art. 27) – booking adviced
COMPOSITE #11 – HORS FORMAT : MAL(e)
Ayelen Parolin
monday 7 june 2010, 19:00
Ayelen Parolin starts a project on the male identity. It is a fight between attitude, the desire for power and virility. It’s like a journey inside the head of an average individual creating unconscious links between his feelings, his sexual instinct and everything else... With Christian Bakalov.
PAF : 7€, 5€, 1,25€ (Art. 27) – Booking advised
COMPOSITE #11 – HORS FORMAT : EFFERVESCENCE
Dimitri Coppe
monday 7 june 2010, 19:00
Dimitri Coppe proposes a concert allying improvisation and composition, in which he explores sound characters through the associations of sound and space, and especially the movement of sound in space. The courtyard of La Bellone will vibrate with forty audio characters and as many loudspeakers.
PAF : 7€, 5€, 1,25€ (Art. 27) – Booking advised
COMPOSITE #11 – HORS FORMAT : Point de départ – Point de fuite
Gaëtan Rusquet et Jamil Bahri
monday 7 june 2010, 19:00
Within the same place and within the same space, Gaëtan Rusquet and Jamil Bahri present simultaneously two different performances, Point de depart and Point de fuite. One takes as subject the point of departure and the place of destination, the other tries to break the limits of space.
PAF : 7€, 5€, 1,25€ (Art. 27) – Booking advised
COMPOSITE #11 – HORS FORMAT : More Than 5 Minutes
Radical Hope
monday 7 june 2010, 19:00
Radical Hope presents, together with The NewImagiNatives, an overview of all the poetic-citizen and urban actions held in the alley in front of La Bellone,at 5, rue du Chien Marin.
PAF : 7€, 5€, 1,25€ (Art. 27) – Booking advised
COMPOSITE #11 – HORS FORMAT : Carry Ok Karoaké
Richard De Domenici
monday 7 june 2010, 19:00
Richard De Domenici, a one-man-subversive-think-tank, developed a system of wearable / portable karaoke, for a nomadic use in temporary places. He invites you to test his last model during this Composite evening.
PAF : 7€, 5€, 1,25€ (Art. 27) – Booking advised
CIFAS (SUITE...) : Formation – Scènes d'ailleurs
Steven Brett, Grande-Bretagne
friday 4 june 2010, 10:00 > 16:30
Explore the national characteristics of selected countries through their distribution networks and respective way of functioning. Understanding institutions, identifying major players, discovering different networks within a country and finding a way in, analyzing aesthetic trends of the country. These sessions are aimed at tour managers and producers who want to work internationally and would like to have a clear vision and understanding of some countries. Participants are invited to bring their own study cases.
Steven Brett was a Drama and Dance Projects manager for Western Europe, Latin America, and Southern Africa for the British Council. He produced 2009’s SPILL Festival of Performance in London. He now runs the Nightingale Theatre in Brighton – a development, residency and performance space.
(In English)
Les Laboréales / Bruxelles
Jérémie Siska, Sébastien Rien, Sébastien Biset, Antoine Boute, Noussommesquatrevingt, Perrine Joveniaux et Stéphane Kozik
28 >30 may 2010, 21:00
A support structure for young artists, "Les Laboréales" aims at supporting the emergence of new forms which mix various disciplines in order to facilitate artistic research and creation. The manège.mons / Maison Folie, in association with Bellone selected 3 artists' projects recently receiving diplomas from the schools of art of Mons: the ESAPV and the Conservatoire. The selected artists were welcomed in residence to bring the realization of their project to a successful conclusion. They benefited from a grant, from the accompaniment of a mentor of their choice, from a working space and from a technical and logistic framework.
7€ / 5€ / 1,25€ (Art. 27) – booking adviced
Les Laboréales / Bruxelles : En Chemin
Jérémie Siska
28 >30 may 2010, 21:00
En Chemin is a project dedicated to the meeting between what we call a City and an individual. It is a proposition in the form of an installation-performance, to enable the spectators to touch upon the vast question of their own relationship to the environment in which they work, breathe, observe, and live. To enter a room, then the next one, is the experience. What surrounds us determines us. The starting point is the assumption that the room is the ‘leading character'.
7€ / 5€ / 1,25€ (Art. 27) – booking adviced
Les Laboréales / Bruxelles : PHASE 3 + S.O.S. [Système Ostensible Simplexe]
Sébastien Rien, Sébastien Biset, Antoine Boute, noussommesquatrevingt
28 >30 may 2010, 21:00
An interdisciplinary and collective project in which the primary material is the city: its spaces and currents, those who live in them or cross them. The project originates in the heart of the city, translating its rhythm and drives, arising from public space made social. The processes originate in urban events, accidents and encounters. Scattered, improvised, collected and configured, they escape control and exist within the live dynamics of the experience.
7€ / 5€ / 1,25€ (Art. 27) – booking adviced
Les Laboréales / Bruxelles : Livescape
Perrine Joveniaux & Stéphane Kozik
28 >30 may 2010, 21:00
This project marries several disciplines- the inheritance of ‘land art' to clever inventions, electronic music to sound design, performance to the multimedia framework. The structure presents 'sculptures' or hybrid, mechanical, poetic, unusual sound objects, allowing other interactions between performance artist/new instrumentalist and images in movement, in a closed bond with nature and animal. Most of the instruments are made of wood. All the wood and the branches are connected with the mixing desk by a "bio-mechanical" arborescence. Using this device, the artists propose a performance of electronic music.
7€ / 5€ / 1,25€ (Art. 27) – booking adviced
CIFAS (SUITE...) : Formation – Scènes d'ailleurs
Joanna Nawrocka, Pologne
friday 28 may 2010, 10:00 > 16:30
Explore the national characteristics of selected countries through their distribution networks and respective way of functioning. Understanding institutions, identifying major players, discovering different networks within a country and finding a way in, analyzing aesthetic trends of the country. These sessions are aimed at tour managers and producers who want to work internationally and would like to have a clear vision and understanding of some countries. Participants are invited to bring their own study cases.
(In English)
Joanna Nawrocka has worked alternatively for the National Theater of Warsaw, the Polish Office of Pro Helvetia and the theatre company Studio Kolo. She is currently the International Relations Manager of the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, as well as the Executive Director of the Warsaw Theatre Meetings festival.
(In English)
CIFAS (SUITE...) : Présentation/Open Space : L'effet d'annonce
Grand Magasin
monday 24 may 2010, 19:00
Following a workshop led by Grand Magasin, the trainees present the results of their wild imaginings on 'The effect of announcement'. "We are particularly interested in the form of the trailer, an element of film for which we can try to find a live equivalent. We estimate what it promises, what it reveals of the plot, what it should hide. Every participant is alternately an actor and a spectator, to observe the distance which separates the facts from their description, the projects from their realization. It is less a question of theatre than it is some experiments with properties of the human language. "
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Elsewhere - in the neighbourhood (5, rue du chien marin) : Do you have 5 minutes ?
Radical Hope
friday 21 may 2010, 17:00 > 17:05
The next poetic-citizen and urban project of Radical Hope, in the alley in front of La Bellone, wil be an intervention of Brussels D.C. (dry closet) with a performance on composting your ‘very personal’ waste. This time, please bring some organic waste or get some at Daringman, rue Du Flandre 37, at 16:45.
www.open-frames.net/changing-room
Free Entrance
Suggestion de présentation / Suggestion of open space
Grand Magasin
saturday 15 may 2010, 19:00
Preceding their workshop on the theme of the 'trailer', Grand Magasin presents its work in a playful way, as usual. Grand Magasin has occupied the French and international theatrical scene for more than twenty years, proposing a theatre which reflects on ‘the minimum necessities' or the 'indispensable maximum' in any communication
Free entrance – reservation advised.
CIFAS (SUITE...) : Formation – Scènes d'ailleurs
Tiago Bartolomeu Costa, Portugal
friday 7 may 2010, 10:00 > 16:30
Explore the national characteristics of selected countries through their distribution networks and respective way of functioning. Understanding institutions, identifying major players, discovering different networks within a country and finding a way in, analyzing aesthetic trends of the country. These sessions are aimed at tour managers and producers who want to work internationally and would like to have a clear vision and understanding of some countries. Participants are invited to bring their own study cases.
Tiago Bartolomeu Costa is a theatre and dance critic, he created the independent publication Obscena. Besides his work for the European Team Network, he is also Member of the Consultative Council for the International Festival Divadelna Nitra (Slovakia) and Member of the International Association of Theatre Critics.
CIFAS (SUITE…) : Présentation/Open Space : La Parole dans l'espace / Words in space
Monica Espina & Philippe Minyana
wednesday 5 may 2010, 19:00
Words in Space
Monica Espina and Philippe Minyana have been collaborating for nearly twelve years in a multiple-sided artistic work: Philippe Minyana is a writer but also director and connoisseur of contemporary art, Monica Espina is director, explores photography, video and staged Minyana’s texts in Argentina. But beyond those affinities, a common concern unites them: the constant search for new ways to inscribe words and text in space.
The text "Suite 2" written by Philip Minyana will be used as a starting point to explore space, as a multiple area of representation where fictions, numerous and varied in the text, are free to move around. The actors - or those acting in the space – will implant in the space the effect of reality in many different ways; it can be intended, framed, recognizable or reinvented.
The work of Bill Viola will be used as a visual arts reference in the way it reconstitutes laical figures of religious painting. These images will create contemporary icons rather than characters and will develop themes rather than subjects.
Monica Espina was born in Argentina. She now lives in Paris and works between France, Argentina and Great Britain. She is a director, translator and adapter. She created the Quebracho Theater Company which develops its activity on contemporary writings and research on new multi-disciplinary theatrical forms.
Philippe Minyana was born in France in 1946. Since 1979 he has written about thirty plays which were published in the collection Tapuscrit/théâtre Ouvert, at the ditions Théâtrale, at Avant Scene, at Actes Sud Paris and at the Editions de l'Arche. Alongside, he worked as an actor and as a director. His writings have been translated into several languages.
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Festival Trouble #6 : Enseigner la performance ? / Teaching Live Art?
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Helge Meyer, Franko B, Jovana Stokic, Yan Duyvendaek
thursday 29 april 2010, 14:00 > 18:00
Can performance art be taught ? Can one learn risk-taking, the absence of rules, the exceptional here and now? And if yes, how ? Within the framework of the Trouble festival, in the Halles de Schaerbeek, in the Museum of Tervuren and in the city, practitioners, artists, teachers and theorists wonder and testify of past or current experiences which aim at the transmission, thaught within the framework of workshops or within art schools.
With Franko B (UK), Arnaud Labelle Rojoux (FR), Yan Duyvendaek (CH), Antoine Pickels (BE) and Helge Meyer (DE).
Organisation : Les Halles, in collaboration with La Bellone and Momentum.
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Questions to contemporary performance #9 : Puiser dans le réel : en panne d’imagination?
Michel André, Françoise Bloch, Carmen Blanco Principal, Transquinquennal, Sonia Chiambretto, Braakland
monday 19 april 2010, 19:00
Reality, words/images/objects culled from interviews,documentaries, articles, biographies, meetings, intimate journals, letters... Why do certain artists draw their material precisely there to work the stage? For what do they look? A «trendy» approach ? The only «true» recipe fora democratization of performing arts ? A concrete method to hand back the theatre to the center of life ? A means to conquer a new public ? An effective method to touch the here and now ?
Moderation: Olivier Hespel.
Free entrance - booking advised
Elsewhere – in the neigbourhood (5, rue du chien marin) : Do you have 5 minutes?
Radical Hope
saturday 17 april 2010, 17:00 > 17:05
Prozession
The next poetic-citizen and urban project of Radical Hope, in the alley in front of La Bellone, wil be a squat held by Circus NoFitState. Always at 5 pm, always during five minutes, always unique, a collective action questioning the fate of an empty lot piece of waste ground… Each month this encounter is preceded by a meeting of The New ImagiNatives, a small group of people partaking in bringing an alternative proposal for the waste ground. Whoever wants to invest his/her imagination concerning the ground in a more pragmatic way is invited to join The New ImagiNatives.Free entrance.
HOPLA : Slips inside
Okidok
saturday 17 april 2010, 19:00 > 22:30
Available in French only.
Free entrance.
Composite #10 : Pas de sentiment!
Andrea Bardos et Pierre Sartenaer, Concrete, Isabelle Bats et Hugues Warin, Pierre Mégos, Mathias Varenne
monday 5 april 2010, 19:00
Neither compassion, nor Sentimental Journey for this Composite, but: the Concrete group with Cuisine, where text, sounds and images rise at the same time as cheese soufflés; Bats and Warin making the autobiographical and musical sum of a guitar, a voice and electricity; Bardos and Sartenaer investigating, for the first time in French, monologues of Podmaniczky (the most Belgian of the Hungarian writers), whose false clumsiness has an equal only in the infinite simplicity of his characters; Pierre Megos going on with his Twelwe Works; and Mathias Varenne fantasizing on violence, murder and civil terrorism.
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) - Booking advised
Composite #10 : Life's what you make it
Isabelle Bats et Hugues Warin
monday 5 april 2010, 19:00 > 22:45
An ‘auto biographical musical’ project from Isabelle Bats and Hugues Warin. « Are we disappointed? Are we too much on our own? » One might almost envy our innocence, time and pace, but we are ready. We are conquerors like knights from heaven. We are the sum of a guitar, a voice and electricity. Electricity, electricity, electricity…
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) - Booking advised
Composite #10 : Territoire gardé par chien crevé
Andrea Bardos et Pierre Sartenaer
monday 5 april 2010, 19:00
Andrea Bardos and Pierre Sartenaer investigate, for the first time in French, the monologues of Szilàrd Podmaniczky, the most Belgian of the Hungarian writers. He is amongst the most read young contemporary Hungarian authors and is reputed for his short stories published weekly in the literary review ' Szép Szo ' created in the 20s ' by Jozsef Attila, the most important Hungarian poet of the XXth century.
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) - Booking advised
Composite #10 : Cuisine
Concrete
monday 5 april 2010, 19:00
After Cuisine 1was produced and performed in June at the Karmanoïa in Berlin, the performance group CONCRETE has devised a new version of the work, a performance mixing sound and images taken from the live action of a performer preparing a cheese soufflé. The project groups four artists experts in sound, image, theatre and performance. The quartet has composed an unique piece reflecting on the collaboration of arts practices and the pleasure of self-making/self-distorting rather than consuming a readymade product. The audience may taste the soufflé (not made in industrial quantity though) or at least take the time to observe its disinflation posture while traveling from the oven to the guest table.
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) - Booking advised
12 works
Pierre Megos
wednesday 31 march 2010, 19:00 > 22:40
works is the second performance realized in La Bellone by Pierre Megos around the theme of Hercules and his twelve works. This part represents the possible beginning of a story inspired by the real mythology and reinterpreted in a contemporary way.
Redrum
Mathias Varenne
wednesday 31 march 2010, 19:00 > 22:40
Redrum is a textual performance on the fantasy of violence, of murder and of civil terrorism. In the form of a mental journey and by means of the words, the rhythm and the logorrhea, it is an attempt to touch what is considered monstrous.
Journée mondiale du théâtre
saturday 27 march 2010, 17:30 > 22:00
To promote the World Day of Theatre to professionals of the stage and to the general public, a suite of readings of (often very beautiful) international messages from the International Institute of Theater, of 1962 (Jean Cocteau), to 2009 (Augusto Boal). With a particular attention to the international message of the year 2010, written by the British actress Judith Dench. A festive event, orchestrated by Valérie Cordy.
Organisation : Belgian centre or th International Theatre Institute, in collaboration with Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre/Danse.
Free entrance - booking advised
Elsewhere – in the neigbourhood (5, rue du chien marin) : Do you have 5 minutes?
Radical Hope
friday 19 march 2010, 17:00 > 17:05
Spring Bulbs
The poetic-citizen and urban project of Radical Hope, in the alley in front of La Bellone, coninues. Always at 5 pm, always during five minutes, always unique, a collective action questioning the fate of an empty lot piece of waste ground... Each month this encounter is preceded by a meeting of The New ImagiNatives, a small group of people partaking in bringing an alternative proposal for the waste ground. Whoever wants to invest his/her imagination concerning the ground in a more pragmatic way is invited to join The New ImagiNatives.
With the support of Kunst/Werk and APAS (Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies).
Free Entrance
Danse(s) et philosophie(s)
thursday 18 march 2010, 10:00 > 17:00
Introduced more than a year ago, the first meetings around this theme were an opportunity to create a dialogue between body movements and the mind. This time, the departments of the Saint Louis university and Contredanse tackle how concepts invented by philosophers feed the choreographic creation.
Organisation : Contredanse, facultés Saint-Louis, in partnership with l’université Lille 3 and La Bellone.
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Dance(s) and Philosophy(ies) : L'Abécédaire du corps dansant
Andrée Martin (CA)
thursday 18 march 2010, 19:00
Andrée Martin, from Montréal, will present a work inspired by L'Abécédaire of Gilles Deleuze.
Free entrance – Limited seats, reservation advised.
Debate : Rond-point de la danse #6
Ecole de danse, où en est-on?
thursday 11 march 2010, 15:00 > 17:30
So what with this dance school?
We already spoke a lot about it a year ago- various projects were outlined, numerous meetings took place, political parties integrated the idea into their electoral programs, hopes were born... So, what happened to the project of a college of the art of dance ? A round table that will gather principle initiators of projects, representatives of parties who had integrated the project into their programs, persons in charge of Higher Education, and all those whose interests are concerned by the creation of this school...
In collaboration with Contredanse and the Rac.
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Elsewhere: at the Raffinerie : Scènes de Méninges #3
Fabien Dehasseler, Loge 22, Michèle Pralong, Eliane Dheygere
wednesday 10 march 2010, 19:30 > 23:00
These last years, new artistic forms are born which often take their distances with the notion of «entertainment». Their timeframe and conditions of production, their means and the necessary spaces are different. Institutions and cultural structures, such as they are modeled, don’t provide an answer to these new forms, which find nevertheless their public. What to create to give a better answer to this desire of the artists ?
Booking: fabienne@charleroi-danses.be
A production of Charleroi/Danses. In collaboration with La Bellone.
5 €
Installation : Dancers!
monday 1 march 2010, 19:00
Following the yearly presentation of the Conseil de la Danse, DANCERS! will be at La Bellone.
DANCERS! is an interactive video data base of professional dancers of any style or technique improvising within a precise context : 2 minutes, defined space, exact lighting, chosen music.
DANCERS! can be viewed online for free at www.dancersproject.com. where one can navigate through the dances in an easy and entertaining way that also provides links to the artists and commentaries.
The DANCERS! installation was presented for the first time in the Biennale of Charleroi/Danses in November 2009 in the Metro Beaux Arts of Charleroi, Belgium. Spectators interacted with the database via a control panel in front of a giant screen where the dances are life size!
A Documentary film about DANCERS! and the dancers involved will be made during the process. Other related projects are a dvd set, scientific studies relying on the exact technical conditions of the videos in order to investigate cultural, psychological origins in movement, theatrical and aesthetic analysis of movement styles, digital movement recognition and higher analysis based on algorithmically defined"determinators" and other academic or scientific investigations are yet to be proposed.
DANCERS! is a 5 year project that hopes to evolve within its life span. Its goal is to travel to cities throughout the world and welcome dancers of all cultures into its database to join the collective project and form a vast community of artists expressing through their movement and gestures, their own artistic concerns. A great grouping of individual spontaneous demonstrations of beauty, intelligence, energy, mastery and wit will be a testimony to the importance of dance to the human experience. And a celebration!
DANCERS! is not only a website in global cyberspace but also a monumental interactive installation in physical space that can be situated in a public area such as museums, festivals, commercial spaces or other places where people pass or congregate.
Free entrance.
Debate : L'Emergence, et après?
sunday 28 february 2010, 17:00
In echo with Revelations, a debate interrogating the status of those who may be the revelations of tomorrow. Young, very young or too young artists kept in virtual waiting rooms, interdisciplinary forms that are forcibly classified, stateless people, forced «adulescence» - until what age? The term of emergence is a good cover for protecting the acquired experience of some and moderating the ardor of others. How to get out of this cage, even if it’s gilded?
In collaboration with Margarita Production
free entrance - booking advised
Monstration : C'est noir comment?
Patricia Martin
monday 22 february 2010, 19:30 > 22:00
After a first performance in the shape of a conference almost in English, seen the difficulties of the Brussels public to understand the Romansh language, and under her identity of an art historian, specialized in the Martin sisters, Patricia Martin pursues her mental journey around Switzerland. But how? With the participation of Jérémy Fournié.
Free entrance – Limited seats, reservation advised.
Debate : 40 ans et alors?
Artistes, critiques, spectateurs...
sunday 21 february 2010, 17:00
In echo with Revelations, a debate combining artists, critics or spectators of all generations selected in the exhibition or having participated in the publication. Forty years after the «cultural autonomy» of French-speaking Belgians, while artists become more and more nomadic between countries and between the arts, how do they imagine the future of the Belgian stage? Is it necessary to assert the peculiarity which underlines the exhibition, and if yes, how?
Free entrance - booking advised
Questions to contemporary performance #8 : Les arts de la scène, hors scène, à quoi bon?
Lise Duclaux, Maggy Jacot (Arsenic), Alain Moreau (Tof Théâtre), Emmanuelle Vincent (t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e.), Philippe Vauchel
monday 15 february 2010, 19:00
Performing arts in the street, in nature, in an apartment... In brief, outside the theatrical institutions... A militant act? A concrete method to approach the public and to laud art for all? A way of reducing the ecological footprint of the performing arts? A pragmatic answer to their multiple problems of visibility, distribution and production? A «marketing» idea to make somewhere else what could be made as well in a black box? The will to work freely, detached (from the stage, among others)? The question: Why stage performing arts offstage?
With Roger Bernat, Lise Duclaux, Maggy Jacot (Arsenic), Alain Moreau (Tof Théâtre), Philippe Vauchel, OKIDOK, Lotte van den Berg. Moderator: Olivier Hespel.
Free entrance - booking advised
Elsewhere – at ISELP : Performance : Le corps à l’œuvre.
Patricia Martin, la performance-écriture
tuesday 9 february 2010, 18:30 > 22:30
The cycle of conversations on the performance of Iselp closes with Patricia Martin. Born in the valley of the Rhône in Switzerland, she graduaded at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. She works with her twin sister Marie-France and is developing a parallel activity solo. Their biographies are the departure point of performative investigations including various media. In their texts and performances, the conscious and unconscious aspects of human feelings are mercilessly sounded, pursued, disordered, dissected.
Infos: 02 504 80 70 -<;a href="http://www.iselp.be">www.iselp.be
In collaboration with La Bellone.
6 € - 4 €
Exhibition : Révélations
Théâtre et danse en Belgique francophone 1968-2008
8 >28 february 2010, 10:00 > 18:00
Theatre and dance in French-Speaking Belgium 1968-2008
Forty performances for forty years! A publication and an exhibition gathers together forty striking performances, created in Wallonia and in Brussels these last forty years. At the same time revelations of their authors, of the period which saw their creation and of the evolution of the stage. The most innovative forms are accentuated, which, by exploring new territories, forged little by little the peculiarity of the French-speaking Belgian stages. The investigation of the traces left by these short-lived forms, and that of the memory of the spectators, are central to this project which would avoid dust traps in envisaging the past that feeds our present. In French and English!
+ on the book here
Open 7/7 days. Till 22:00 on wednesdays.
Free Entrance
Next door at 5, rue du chien marin : Do you have 5 minutes ?
Radical Hope
wednesday 27 january 2010, 17:00 > 17:05
The keys
Next wednesday we adapt the known urban 'Rite Of Eternal Love' : people fix a marked locker onto a bridge rail and throw the keys into the water. We propose to exchange keys after locking and to bury them, simultanously with an action by Béatrice Didier, at the ground on rue Du Chien Marin 5. Bring the locker of your choice or get one at Daringman, rue De Flandre 37, 16:45 !
The poetic-citizen and urban project of Radical Hope, in the alley in front of La Bellone, coninues. Always at 5 pm, always during five minutes, always unique, a collective action questioning the fate of an empty lot piece of waste ground… Each month this encounter is preceded by a meeting of The New ImagiNatives, a small group of people partaking in bringing an alternative proposal for the waste ground. Whoever wants to invest his/her imagination concerning the ground in a more pragmatic way is invited to join The New ImagiNatives.
Free Entrance
Monstration : Robots
Sébastien Chollet et Bruno Marin
monday 25 january 2010, 19:30
Sébastien Chollet and Bruno Marin explore the world of robots in a burlesque, poetic performance.
Free entrance - booking mandatory
Elsewhere : Scènes de Méninges #2
Erna Omarsdottir, Hoochen, Ana Catalina Gubrandu,Anne Kersting, Christian Tamet
wednesday 20 january 2010, 19:00
Dance audiences : an elite?
Dance audiences are relatively homogenous, at least in the capital where “regulars” make up the majority of them. However this is a poor reflection of the social make-up of a city where a third of residents are foreign and the population is becoming poorer. It is a matter of quality rather than quantity: while dance shows are often sell-outs, the people watching are mostly white, of a certain age and graduates. Yet dance is a language that often proves to be more accessible than forms linked to language or that are more “rational”, and the image of the non-competitive and non-violent body that it offers has an interesting social role to play. How can the audience be made more diverse? How can all strata of the population appropriate “the culture of dance” as a value? How can models of mediation used successfully in smaller towns and cities with a more limited cultural offering be applied to Brussels?
Programme
Hoochen - B-Boys
Erna Omarsdottire - Digging in the
Ana Catalina Gubrandu - I Don't know, I've never been here before
Speakers
Anne Kersting (Kampnagel, DE), Christian Tamet (Châteauvallon, FR)
Animation
Antoine Pickels
In collaboration with La Bellone
Booking
5 €
Presentation : Thierry Smits. Le corps sous tensions
Publication
monday 18 january 2010, 17:30 > 19:30
The body-in-tension
The Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits has asserted over twenty years an artistic approach that is well off the beaten path in many respects, one that is frequently controversial and often counter-current. The aim of this text is to understand how this work was built up over time, the themes, shapes, and strategies than can be seen in it, and how the final outcome is an always living "field of tensions" that may be its major attraction. This work, that is bursting in all directions, is marked by its breaks and contradictions, in its oppositions between sex and death, rebellion and carefreenesss, impure form and composition, pure lines and physicality, artifice and pop culture, meaning and the ineffable. That is effectively how it must be grasped. This temporal, stylistic, and theoretical course is written with empathy and distance by one of the choreographer's travelling companions, the dramaturge, critic, and writer Antoine Pickels, with a rich visual journey in an eminently photogenic work on the body and stage as a counterpoint.
Organisation: Compagnie Thor et Alternatives théâtrales
free entrance - booking advised
Monstration : Ça
Eve Bonneau
monday 18 january 2010, 19:30
The choreographer Ève Bonneau questions the empathy between audience and performer, and the body’s transition between the private and the collective.
Free entrance - booking mandatory
Composite #9 : Seuls contre tous
Blue Jeans, Sebastian Dicenaire, Monica Klingler, Stéphanie Lupo, Pierre Mégos, Stéphane Roussel
saturday 9 january 2010, 19:00
No communities, no group manifestations, no choirs, no football teams, no union, no Come Together for this ninth Composite, but solitary endeavors, solos and monologues. A short piece by Stéphane Roussel inspired by a painting by Otto Dix, Monocle, portrait of S. von Harden (fragment), with musical interludes; a performance by Monica Klingler, Spätestens Heute; a dance-theatre piece by Stéphanie Lupo inspired by Hiroshima mon amour; Pamela, a performance poem from Sebastian Dicenaire; some of the 12 works from the herculean Pierre Mégos, and a few shorts from Blue Jeans, aka Jean de La Fontaine… Great - the Composites are back !
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Art. 27) - booking mandatory.
Composite #9 : Pamela
Sebastian Dicenaire
saturday 9 january 2010, 19:00
Pamela is a metaphysical Harlequin novel. Pamela is a fair young lady leaning on the wooden balustrade of white teak that overhangs the bay of Palm Beach. Pamela is a heroine of a sentimental series embarked, against her own will, on a myth of the End of Time of which she becomes the prophet. Pamela is the name of the economic cyclone that threatens to gobble up the capitalist society which created it. Pamela is a film without images to listen to in the dark. Pamela is cinema in the head. Pamela is a heroine of a sentimental series whose virus extends in the reality. Pamela is the name of the economic cyclone which threatens to gobble up a fair young lady leaning on the wooden balustrade of white teak. Pamela is/Pamela, is/Pamela, isPamela, is/Pamela, is Pamela, c’
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) - Booking advised
Composite #9 : Monocle, portrait de S. von Harden
Stéphane Roussel
saturday 9 january 2010, 19:00
Inspired by the famous painting 'Portrait of the journalist Sylvia von Harden' (1926) by Otto Dix, the monologue Monocle, portrait de S. von Harden investigates the universe of the transgender, as much as the borders between paintings, the tableau vivant and a theater of the verb. Accompagnied by musical interludes, in a 1920s Berlin style, the performance is a gallery of iconographic attitudes and appears as a vast identity crisis.
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) - Booking advised
Composite #9 : Courts-métrages
Blue Jeans
saturday 9 january 2010, 19:00
The Luxemburg painter Jean de La Fontaine, a.k.a Blue Jeans, who was also an actor at the Théâtre Laboratoire Vicinal, realizes since some years absurd short films. Throughout the composite, a screening of these shorts.
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) - Booking advised
Composite #9 : Spätestens Heute
Monica Klingler
saturday 9 january 2010, 19:00
These days my performances are created during the performance. They arise from the encounter between my body and the space, and the circumstances of the performance.
A human body which takes shape in a space, a situation, an atmosphere with a whole array languages.
A kind of Geyger counter, an antenna, a transformer, a musical instrument
A microcosm.
A human body as a place in a space.
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) - Booking advised
Composite #9 : 12 Works
Pierre Mégos
saturday 9 january 2010, 19:00
First public experience...
It is the story of a man-artist, a Greek hero in search of his self.
It is a theatrical act divided into several live acts.
It is a fantasized reality or an unconscious impossibility filtered by m.o.n.e.y then made accessible.
It is a sacrifice or a self-sacrifice, unpolished and integer, destined for "something bigger".
It is a strange image painted in black and white.
It is a silent respiration which accelerates noisily before being suffocated.
It is a faded fire followed by an animal reconstruction causing a miscarriage.
It is an insect buzzing in the head and urging to kill the sacred.
It is a Herculean tragic madness...
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) - Booking advised
Composite #9 : Hiroshima
Stéphanie Lupo
saturday 9 january 2010, 19:00
Solo adapted from Hiroshima mon amour by Marguerite Duras
' My dreams bang into the concrete, they fall or they become of iron. I, the dead woman and to become. I, piece of the world and of memory. I, the embrace of the bodies that tremble and perspire. I, hair in my hands, I, face in the flames, I, head of flowers in the flight of ashes. ' Stéphanie Lupo. January, 2009
Hiroshima. Current events. Horror. Oblivion. New love. New sun. Resurgence of ife. Eros against drives of iron, fear and war. Hiroshima as an Allegory.
7 € / 5 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) - Booking advised
Elsewhere : Performance : Le corps à l’œuvre.
Monica Klingler
tuesday 5 january 2010, 18:30 > 22:30
Available in French only.
6 € - 4 €
Elsewhere : Do you have 5 minutes?
Radical Hope
friday 18 december 2009, 17:00 > 17:05
Do you have 5 minutes? is a deed of Radical Hope, an indian leader of the social sphere. A series of 5 minutes events serves as a performative means to come to an alternative proposal for the still 'uncertain' ground in Rue du chien marin.
How does it work :
The proposing party invites a certain targetgroup of people to come for 5 minutes to Rue du Chien marin to do something that lasts exactly 5 minutes. In the most pragmatic sense it is a moment of presenting a true proposal for an alternative use of the land, (in case the presentation takes longer, it can be started or continued in Daringman, La Bellone, another adresse / venue - and in the most - let’s say - poetic sense, it may be an action that makes an aesthetic shortcut between the pragmatic aim of the meetings and the 5 minutes format.
The second meeting of this poetic-citizen cycle proposes to "squat"(to sit in a crouching position with knees bent for five minutes)in the wasteland,followed or preceded by a discussion about the urbanistic future of this ground.
When economy fights ecology,
enter the arena and sing a song.
[Radical Hope, 1974]
Free Entrance
Questions to contemporary performance #7 : Solitaire/collectif: créer autrement, autre chose ?
Isabelle Dumont, Niko Raes, Gwendoline Robin, tg STAN, groupe toc, Open Frames
monday 7 december 2009, 19:00
Solitary versus collective is the question posed this time. Are the solitary creators really alone ? Are the collectivists really taking collective decisions ? With Isabelle Dumont, Niko Raes, Heike Langsdorf (Open Frames), Sarah De Roo (tg STAN), le groupe toc, … Moderator : Olivier Hespel. Soup is offered to all participants!
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Elsewhere : JOURNÉE D'ÉTUDE: LE RÔLE DES ARTS ET DE LA CULTURE DANS LES PROJETS ET PROGRAMMES DE COLLABORATION INTERRÉGIONALE
VTI - ONDA - La Bellone
27 and 28 november 2009
The Role of the Arts and Culture in Interregional Cooperation Projects and programmes
Arts centre BUDA, 27-28 November 2009
Organisation: VTi, La Bellone, ONDA and the partners of the NEXT Festival
In recent decades the international dimension of art practice has changed fundamentally. Cultural cooperation in Europe is made up nowadays of an extensive, multilateral flow of projects, which are launched by artists, non-profit organisations, museums, theatres, companies... as well as by national governments and those organisations coming under their structures. Projects involving exclusively national governments are less and less the norm. These developments give rise to a series of questions and reflections on future international cultural practices and politics.
• In what way do national and cultural frontiers hinder international co-operation, and what territorial strategies can be developed to overcome these impediments?
• How does artistic practice relate to the economic and social development of a region? How can the arts contribute to and benefit from that? What new possibilities emerge from supporting cross-pollinations between the arts and technology, research, tourism, education, employment... on a local level?
• How can different government levels co-operate better, find common or complementary goals and interests?
Booking mandatory before Novembre 23d
free entrance - booking mandatory
Jonctions : Epicpédia
Annemieke et Marloes Vanderhoek
thursday 26 november 2009, 20:30 > 22:30
EpicPedia is a web application that presents itself as a theatre script to explain the development of a Wikipedia article. The performance will be followed by a discussion.
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Elsewhere : Scène de Méninges #1
Petites formes et réflexion chorégraphique
wednesday 25 november 2009, 19:00
Over four Wednesdays at La Raffinerie, there will be a selection of short choreographies and performances from home and abroad presenting an opportunity for reflection, assisted by some high-flying witnesses, and all taking place in a relaxed atmosphere.
5 €
Jonctions : Kaléidoscope
Mangrove-Tentactile
25 >28 november 2009, 18:00 > 22:00
An installation/performance concerning the use of security cameras and software that register and dissect our daily activities.
No performance on 26/11.
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Chambre d'écho : Autour de La Dame de chez Maxim
Rencontre avec Jean-François Sivadier
monday 23 november 2009, 19:00
An evening centered on the theatre director Jean-François Sivadier, who is still pretty unknown here. Actors give us an overview of his career, with images, from his first steps with Didier-Georges Gabily up to La Dame.
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Kantor Films : Kantor est là
saturday 21 november 2009, 18:30 > 19:20
Available in French only
Free entrance
Kantor Films : Sacs, armoire et parapluie. Théâtre-happening de Kantor
saturday 21 november 2009, 19:30 > 21:00
Available in French only
Free entrance
Presentation : Sur les traces de Tadeusz Kantor
Ludka Ryba
saturday 21 november 2009, 18:00
The charged actor or the bundles of Kantor
A charged actor... of what? Charged with a burden of objects (its indispensable travelling companions), disguises, clowning, theater ghosts? Or, charged to be there and to make the space vibrate?
Here are some "heavy" questions to address some key aspects of the theatrical work of Tadeusz Kantor, to understand his particular way of conceiving the actor and the space he/she inhabits.
Through exercises and improvisations, explore and experience the vast area of the object in the Kantorian universe.
Not to pass a "method" as Kantor himself never sought nor wanted to establish, but to travel with his suitcases and on the way ... maybe ... be affected by his radical artistic attitude.
Free entrance – Limited seats, reservation advised.
Kantor Films : Où sont les neiges d'antan
friday 20 november 2009, 18:30 > 19:10
Available in French only.
Free entrance
Elsewhere : Do you have 5 minutes?
Radical Hope
friday 20 november 2009, 17:00 > 17:05
Rue du chien marin 5
Do you have 5 minutes? is a deed of Radical Hope, an indian leader of the social sphere. A series of 5 minutes events serves as a performative means to come to an alternative proposal for the still 'uncertain' ground in Rue du chien marin.
How does it work :
The proposing party invites a certain targetgroup of people to come for 5 minutes to Rue du Chien marin to do something that lasts exactly 5 minutes. In the most pragmatic sense it is a moment of presenting a true proposal for an alternative use of the land, (in case the presentation takes longer, it can be started or continued in Daringman, La Bellone, another adresse / venue - and in the most - let’s say - poetic sense, it may be an action that makes an aesthetic shortcut between the pragmatic aim of the meetings and the 5 minutes format.
This time : « Shooting feathers » as part of a series of 5-minutes-events, serving as a performative means to generate an alternative proposal for the still 'uncertain' ground in Rue du Chien Marin.
When economy fights ecology,
enter the arena and sing a song.
[Radical Hope, 1974]
Free entrance
Elsewhere : Fragile!
Jeunes performeurs belges
thursday 19 november 2009, 19:00
5 young performers who followed a performance class at La Cambre show their stuff during a festival in Geneva.
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Kantor Films : Je ne reviendrai jamais
thursday 19 november 2009, 18:30 > 19:55
Available in French only.
Free entrance
Kantor Films : Qu’ils crèvent les artistes
wednesday 18 november 2009, 18:30 > 19:15
Available in French only
Free entrance
Kantor Films : Tadeusz Kantor: La famille de Wielopole
tuesday 17 november 2009, 18:30 > 19:15
Available in French only.
Free entrance
Kantor Films : Wielopole, Wielopole
tuesday 17 november 2009
Available in French only
Free entrance
Kantor Films : La Classe morte – séance dramatique de T. Kantor
monday 16 november 2009, 18:30 > 19:45
Available in French only.
Free entrance
Kantor Films : Le Théâtre de Tadeusz Kantor
sunday 15 november 2009, 18:30 > 21:00
Available in French only.
Free entrance
exhibitions, films, symposium, workshop... : 8 jours avec Kantor
14 >21 november 2009, 10:00 > 21:00
Eight days about Tadeusz Kantor in La Bellone with two exhibitions, a daily screening of films at 18:30 by and about Kantor, a conference about the important influence of this artist, a workshop for young actors followed by a presentation and a public debate with international guests.
With the support of service culturel de l’Ambassade de Pologne, in collaboration with Cricoteka and Cifas (suite…).
free entrance
Tadeusz Kantor, Actions et répétitions
Jacquie Bablet, Tadeusz Kantor
14 >21 november 2009, 10:00 > 18:00
Translation in process
Free entrance
8 days with Kantor : Cinéma Kantor
14 >21 november 2009, 18:30
Films by or about Kantor, every night.
Free entrance
Kantor Films : Tadeusz Kantor 1915-1990
saturday 14 november 2009, 18:30 > 18:50
Available in French only.
Free entrance
Elsewhere : Performance : Le corps à l’œuvre.
Gwendoline Robin, l'art de l'action
tuesday 10 november 2009, 18:30 > 22:30
At ISELP
Performance is back. Gwendoline Robin, an artist in pyrotechnics is part of this cycle at ISELP.
nfos: www.iselp.be – 02 504 80 70
6 € - 4 €
Artistic Adviser : PUTAINDEBORDELDEMERDE
Simon Siegmann et Jean-Michel Espitallier
saturday 7 november 2009, 19:30
Simon Siegmann and Jean-Michel Espitallier are back… in black. From the room to their thoughts, all is black.
In collaboration with the agency Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre/Danse
Free entrance - booking mandatory
Cycle de formation : L'Europe, réseau de scènes
saturday 7 november 2009, 10:00 > 18:00
An approach of the European Networks and European Cultural policies: analysing the context, identifying key players and understanding European policies. Practical work on the existing European Programs.
8 to 12 participants: producers and distributors of the performing arts concerned with European strategies.
Claude Véron (FR) after a long teaching career, is now invested in projects focusing on European issues; Pépinières Européennes for young artists, Young Talents Circus Europe, Transdisiplinary European Arts Magazines
Monstration : Robots
Sébastien Chollet et Bruno Marin
monday 2 november 2009, 19:30
Sébastien Chollet and Bruno Marin explore the world of robots in a burlesque, poetic performance.
free entrance - booking mandatory
Autour d’(A)pollonia
Krzysztof Warlikowski (PL)
monday 26 october 2009, 19:00 > 21:00
We receive the acclaimed theatre director Krzysztof Warlikowski, who questions the value of a human life in his latest creation (A)pollonia.
Free entrance.
Monstration : Ça:présence et lisibilité
Ève Bonneau
monday 26 october 2009, 19:30
The choreographer Ève Bonneau questions the empathy between audience and performer, and the body’s transition between the private and the collective.
Free entrance – Limited seats, reservation advised.
exhibition : Mes adieux à la scène
Installation - Simon Siegmann
19 october > 6 november 2009, 10:00 > 18:00
How much do we care about the conventions of representation ? Simon Siegmann anyway doesn’t and shows us how subversive he is.
Free entrance.
Ô secours les pissenlits, dramolet
Patricia Martin
monday 19 october 2009, 19:30
A first presentation of a work in process for Patricia Martin based on the video Du noir dans le vert made with her sister Marie-France.
Chinese Live Art : Femme, chinoise, performeure : quels enjeux ?
saturday 17 october 2009, 16:00 > 18:00
A lecture by Bérénice Angremy followed by a discussion with the artists.
Pistol Shot Event by Xiao Lu created such a controversy in 1989 that it led not only to a prison sentence for her, but also to the withdrawal of official support for performance art and a virtual ban on the genre in China up to today. La Bellone invites her and 3 other performance artists.
Bérénice Angremy is a French art critic, curator and art consultant based in Beijing for the past 8 years. She is currently director of Thinking Hands Co., a company mainly dedicated to contemporary art practices and design. She is director of China Art Performance Platform (CAPP). She was executive director of the Dashanzi/Dangdai International Art festival (DIAF), a multidisciplinary and large scale festival that she co-founded with artist Huang Rui, and that was held in Beijing from 2004 to 2007. She regularly contributes to articles in international art magazines and catalogues.
Free entrance – reservation advised.
Chinese Live Art : Poetest
saturday 17 october 2009, 19:00
A long duration traveling performance in the city, an action bordering protest, propaganda, performance and everyday life.
Ko Siu Lan was born in 1977 in Xiamen, China. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Master in Sociology and worked as full time NGO worker on rural community development projects in China until 2007. She started making performance in 2001. Often using simple poetic gestures and organic materials in-situ, her works question issues around government policies, perception, propaganda, and identity. Audiences are often invited to participate in the works. After being based in Paris as a research artist at the Program La Seine of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, she now lives in Toronto.
5 € / 3 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) – Reservation advised
Chinese Live Art : I believe / I don't
Ko Siu Lan (CN)
saturday 17 october 2009, 19:00
8 sets of words are printed individually in front of a T-shirt.The words are: SEE, SAY, FEEL, DO, THINK, BELIEVE, SOMETHING, NOTHING. One word is printed at the back of the T-shirt: FREE
Audiences who come will kindly be invited to participate in the work by help wearing the T-shirts when they are at the venue. With the casual movement and daily activity of the people wearing the T-shirts, the 9 words will be mixed and combined forming sentences of poetry, irony, joke, common sense, political statement, philosophy, protest, dilemma lament, fantasy, biology, linguistic, sociology, nonsense.....etc, the possibilities are endless.
These discourses and their meanings are constantly changing because of the spontaneous action. Chance, accident, spontaneity of everyday life are important aspect of the work- meanings are not in controlled and deliberately created by anyone but are constantly in flux. Therefore the work is intended to infiltrate into everyday life but not a choreograph action by the artist or anyone.
The other aspect of the work is the mimicking of propaganda strategy and context in daily life, collective mobilization of people doing the same action or wearing the same products with charged messages - on products such as T-shirts, bags, cups, packaging, street banners, signs, all are hidden forms of propaganda.
Ko Siu Lan was born in 1977 in Xiamen, China. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Master in Sociology and worked as full time NGO worker on rural community development projects in China until 2007. She started making performance in 2001. Often using simple poetic gestures and organic materials in-situ, her works question issues around government policies, perception, propaganda, and identity. Audiences are often invited to participate in the works. After being based in Paris as a research artist at the Program La Seine of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, she now lives in Beijing.
5 € / 3 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) – Reservation advised
chinese Live Art : Mirroring my self-image
Liu Lushan (CN)
friday 16 october 2009, 19:00
The performer sees her own physical actions at present time and her actions are connected/linked to her mental images of her daily life in Asia projected on the other side of the wall. The audience will travel with her to those places : she goes to such places as the busy Shibuya city center, the airport, the spiritual shrine, as well as her personal private spaces, while feeling her physical existence in realtime.
Lushan Liu applies her artistic practice to investigate the phenomenon of global migration under social transformation, and challenges performative activities as a way to confront the idea of cultural otherness. Her projects uniquely depict the geographic non-place and the contradicted emotions of Chinese immigrants in Western developed countries via our culturally mechanized sensory organs. As a socially active artist, she continues to explore diasporic activities for immigrants worldwide and calls for new ways of communication in our fragmented national time-space.
5 € / 3 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) – Reservation advised
Chinese Live Art : 4 femmes artistes
He Chengyao, Xiao Lu, Liu Lushan, Ko Siu Lan
15 >17 october 2009, 19:00 > 21:00
La Bellone presents 4 contemporary Chinese women performance artists of different generations who explore the themes of identity, gender, body, political conflict and personal story.
5 € / 3 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) – Reservation advised
Chinese Live Art : Kiss
He Chengyao (CN)
thursday 15 october 2009, 19:00
0ne table, two chairs, one plate, tissues, dustbin + 17 different sort of drinks (quite a challenge!) + one fridge with 20 ice creams in it .
Born in 1964, He Chengyao graduated from Sichuan Fine Art University in Chongqing in 1989. Formerly using oil-painting as her main artistic language, He Chengyao made a radical move with her first performance piece Opening great Wall in 2001.From then, she engaged herself in performances and photography as well. While considered as uniquely doing “gender art”, she is also and much more involved in working on mental illness people through many performances like Mother and I, Witness, 99 needles, where she informs about her troubled family background and seeks to challenge prejudices towards mental illness. He Chengyao has exhibited widely in China, Japan, Korea, UK and Italy and has been the only woman from mainland china invited to participate in the group show “Dream 02” at the gallery@oxo and the Bargehouse in London.
5 € / 3 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) – Reservation advised
Chinese Live Art : Drunk
Xiao Lu (CN)
thursday 15 october 2009, 19:00
1. On a long table dressed with a tablecloth, are installed 16 bottles of red wine (16 because the artist is born on 16th of April).
2. Sat down, starts to drink the first bottle, the spectators can drink with me and can also talk to me.
3. One glass of wine poured, one glass of wine drunk, until to get drunk
Born in 1962 in Hangzhou, Xiao Lu graduated From the Oil Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy in 1988. In 1989, she participated in the first contemporary art exhibition ever in China- the China Avant/Garde in the National Art Gallery, Beijing with an installation named Dialogue on which she used gunfire during the exhibition, this leading to the closure of the exhibition. She fled away and did not exhibit for a decade. Returning back from Australia where she emigrated, she turned back to the 1989 gun shot event as a sort of rebirth in her 2004 Dialogue. Her other performances like Sperm have made her an artist with a deep sensitivity about love, relationships and contradictions as inner part of life. Her work has been exhibited in the China, US and Australia.
5 € / 3 € / 1,25 € (Article 27) – Reservation advised
Debate : Rond-Point de la danse #5
thursday 1 october 2009, 15:00 > 17:00
Dance productions are well acquainted with production troubles. Should production agencies be set up to deal with several companies at a time?
Free entrance
publication : Jouer le jeu
De l’autre côté du théâtre belge
monday 28 september 2009, 11:30
On the occasion of the Festival Émulation, twelve artists who represent the innovative and original theater of the French Community are presented in a book published by Le Théâtre de la Place. Photos by Marie-Françoise Plissart.
Free Entrance
performance : Mit Freundlichen Grüssen
Californium 248 (CH)
wednesday 23 september 2009, 19:00
The Geneva University of Art and Design’s performance department presents the work of latest season’s students in La Bellone.
free entrance - booking advised
Presentation : Contaminer la ville
FrenchMottershead (UK)
saturday 19 september 2009, 16:00 > 18:00
Following a workshop led by Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead, a presentation of their work in the city. These artists explore ideas of identity, social ritual and the everyday public and private realms in which they are played out. Through participatory works, they subvert sites and engage people’s complicity in the creative act.
Free entrance.
Monstration : toi&moi (nous sommes occupés)
groupe toc
monday 7 september 2009, 19:30 > 21:00
In the final stage of toi&moi (nous sommes occupés), Cédric Lenoir and Anne Thuot focus on their past performances and present the archived material as an object by itself.
Free entrance – Limited seats, reservation advised.