Urban distortions
20' or 45' dance performance by Pierre Larauza and Emmanuelle Vincent / t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e
Version XS or M
Premiere in 2014
Interdisciplinary installation-performance through which dance, song and territory meet, triggering the public’s mobility in a spirit of proximity and intimacy. Dancers and musicians are inside transparent inflatables bubbles.
Scenography & choreography
Pierre Larauza + Emmanuelle Vincent
Dancers
Emmanuelle Vincent
Sara Tan / Ivy Tsui Yik Chit / Nhu Xuyen
Charles Ngombengombe
Performers
Pierre Larauza
Thy Truong Minh
Olga Mendel Ndaya
Live musicians
Matthieu Ha
Guillaume Martigné
Teddy Chilla
Technical manager
Serge Payen
Coproduction
Manège.mons / CECN2, TechnocITé, Transcultures,
L'abattoir Centre national des arts de la rue
With the support of
Grand Studio, the agency WBTD, Wbi Wallonie-Brussels International
Urban distortions takes an interest in the clash of territories, speeds and movements of different scales through the exploration and the decoding of three cities: Hong Kong, Mtwapa (Kenya) and Brussels.
We are trying out a deciphering of the city, a system of urban reading and writing, with humour and certain strangeness brought about as a result of decontextualisation.
The singer/musician Matthieu Ha develops a language without words with witch he ends up with his Haute Contre voice in a musical style close to minimal and baroque music.
Between performance and installation, the two sides of this dance project, with their diverging issues, meet at the perceptive distortions level.
Teaser of Urban distortions
Full video recording available on request for professionnals (feel free to contact us)
Tour
Festival des blocs, 2021, Laeken (Belgique)
Park Poetik, 2021, Brussels (Belgique)
Festival des Tchafornis, 2018, Engis (Belgium)
Ho-Chi-Minh city Museum of Fine Art, 2017, Ho-chi-Minh City (Vietnam)
L'Espace, 2017, Hanoï (Vietnam)
Journée de la Francophone, 2016, Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville (Vietnam)
In shadow Festival, 2015, Lisboa (Portugal)
Kuala Lampur Performing Arts Centers, 2015, Kuala Lampur (Malaysia)
George Town Festival / Butterworth Fringe Festival, 2015, Penang (Malaysia)
Manifesto, 2015, Brussels (Belgium)
Festival On y danse, 2014, Paris (France)
Guangdong Dance Festival, 2013, Guangzhou (China)
Macau City Fringe Festival, 2013, Macau (China)
Fêtes Romanes, 2013, Wolluwe, (Belgium)
Beijing Dance Festival, 2013, Beijing (China)
Nanluoguxiang Festival, 2013, Beijing (China)
French May, 2013, Hong Kong (China)
Festival Croisements, 2013, Wuhan and Beijing (China)
Festival VIA, 2013, Jeumont (France)
Danseurs en transit, Maison de la culture et de la cohésion sociale, 2013, Brussels (Belgium)
Internationale Tanzmesse, 2012, Düsseldorf (Germany)
Baltoscandal Festival, 2012, Rakvere (Estonia)
D-Festival, 2012, Brussels (Belgium)
Lumen8Anacostia festival (Old Police Warehouse), 2012, Washington, (USA)
Mois de la Francophonie (National Portrait Gallery), 2012, Washington, (USA)
Festival Mötel Mozaique, 2012, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Kermesse Belgo-japonaise, 2011, (Belgium)
Nuit Blanche de Bruxelles, 2011, (Belgium)
Fêtes Romanes, 2011, Wolluwe, (Belgium)
Augusti TantsuFestival, 2011, Tallinn (Estonia)
Festival Chalon dans la rue, 2011, Chalon-sur-Saône (France)
Festival Nouveaux auteurs, 2011, Halle (Germany)
Festival VIA, 2011, Mons (Belgium)
Bangk(zero)k festival, 2010, Bangkok (Thaïland)
Rencontres d’été de la Chartreuse, 2010, associé au festival IN Avignon, 2010, (France)
ON STAGE PREMIERE
Urban distortions
Lille 3000, 17-18 November 2012