Et toi …
Dance performance, 2018
© Ana Karolina Grimmes
Choreography & dance Francesca Saraullo, Carolina Van Eps
Dramaturgical coach Greet Van Poeck
Light & sound creation Francesca Saraullo, Carolina Van Eps
Sound collaboration Kaasper Roggen
Time 20’
Et toi … is a dance performance piece about space “in between” that sustains the encounter of two people. The intention is to make tangible this invisible entity that connects and encourages an intimate and sensitive contact.
What emerges from this relationship with the Other?
Attraction and tension are unveiled in an energetic transformation of bodies that touch each other.
NOTES
This work was born in a studio of Fine Arts Academy in Brussels where we, Francesca Saraullo and Carolina Van Eps, met in 2013. During our studies in “Choreographic Arts and Art in Public Space” we gave form to our dance performance “Et toi…”.
From that moment the pièce travelled from the stage (as in HETPALEIS in Antwerpen in Belgium and in SPAZIO MATTA in Pescara in Italy) to the non-theatrical spaces (as well in Palácio Do Sobralinho in Portugal; in the Embassy of Spain in Belgium; in Private Spaces during Festivals as Gentbougement in Gent as well as in the last exhibition in Mallorca during the Hors Lits Festival).
In the last presentation in Mallorca, in May 2023, we presented our work into a big garden of a private house. Not only could we have and appreciate the intimacy with the audience as an important point of our work, but we reaffirm how much a “quotidian” space has this potential to transform itself into a magic and suggestive stage as theater.
Even by adding new details to the work or enhancing its content. Parallel, the audience feels more at home and involved into a familiar, cozy and warmly context and we, as performers, can really give a living touch to our work by playing with a real proximity with the spectators that are really closed to us and, an put even more in evidence our complicity and presenting the work in its naked side, vulnerability and fragility that is its strength.
SUPPORT
Danspunt vzw, Bains Connective, Victoria Deluxe, La Bellone, workspacebrussels | BE
Inestética companhia teatral and Câmara Municipal de Vila Franca de Xir | PT
Florian Metateatro Pescara | IT
teaser Et toi … in Dag van de Dans
Embassy of Spain in Brussels, Belgium
teaser, Et toi … dance performance
DANÇA INVISÍVEL | Ciclo de Dança Contemporânea, Palacio Do Sobralinho, Vila F. Xira, Portugal
PRESS
2018
Article about “Et toi...” in teatrionline - Italian web review
Scenari Europei 2018, Spazio Matta, Pescara, Italy
https://www.teatrionline.com/2018/10/festival-scenari-europei-2018-giorno-3/
Article about “Et toi...”, pg. 22
BOM-Festival, Ghent, Belgium
https://www.deviezegasten.org/uploads/files/BOM-festivalkrant_bom9_digitaal.pdf
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@ Ana Karolina Grimmes, Hors Lits Festival, Mallorca, Spain
@ Fabio Artese, Scenari Europei Festival, Pescara, Italy
@ Vitor Hugo Costa, CICLO DANÇA INVISÍVEL, Vila de Franca, Portugal
DATES
May 12,13 2023
Hors Lits Festival
S’Arracò, Palma de Majorca, Spain
Past
2018
December 14
Es Local Espai de creació
Palma de Majorca, Spain
November 4
GentBougement Festival
Gent, Belgium
September 22
Scenari Europei Festival Florian Metateatro
Spazio Matta, Pescara, Italy
September 15
Ciclo Dança Invisìvel Festival
Palácio do Sobralinho, Vila de Franca, Portugal
May 11
BOM-Festival
Gent, Belgium
April 28 28th
Day of Dance Festival
Embassy of Spain in Brussels, Belgium
2017
October 6
NEST - DE Vloer
Gent, Belgium
September 17
BARUMBARA - Performative Public Space Festival
rue de Fladre, Brussels, Belgium
April 29
Dansvitrine
HETPALEIS theatre, Antwerpen, Belgium
