THEATRE,
DANCE and CINEMA
DANCE and CINEMA
If I had to summarize my deeds
and doings in a single word I’d say: Play. I am player. And
at the same time, paradoxically, I hate gambling. The more futile and
free the game seems, the more excited I get! Be it on stage or in
dance studios, I do nothing but serving my soup, sweet, spicy,
bitter or sour. Performing is but sharing a meal... Food for
thought, for soul, for heart.
"One evening Yves took my
words in his mouth, and the words became water, blue, with the sun
inside."
(Xavier Deutsch)
(Xavier Deutsch)
Movement is life. In any case,
that’s how mine feels and looks like. Moving. Since I left
Liège's
Royal Conservatoire (Drama School), I’ve been exploring the
intersections and confluences between theater, movement, dance and
play. Working (hard) with Wim Vandekeybus
definitely allowed me to experience the joys, surprises, the aches and
pains of learning on the job, rolling, stomping, falling, jumping,
running... More than two years of rehearsals and tours with the
international company Ultima Vez confirmed my taste for travel,
communication, exchange and all kinds of trade. Two broken meniscus did
also teach me how to set my own boundaries and respect myself. Since
then, my
life has been a constant shift between journeys round the world and
times
dedicated to art, researching, rehearsing or performing, especially
with young companies, new teams (God knows why), and people from the
dance, theater, circus and performance world. As a genuine
“zinneke” I cherish the mixture of styles, genres
and disciplines.
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"Professional diver, Yves
rushes with a calm smile. "
(Charlotte)
(Charlotte)
MUSIC and SONGS
In music, I am a seeker, an
inventor, a listener, a transformer. Sort of a rhythmic rainbow. My
guitar has been with me since I was 9 years old; it’s one of
the sisters I do not have. Percussion came later, one summer, as I no
longer could support the forced immobilization due to the plaster
casting of my leg. I literally started to hit everything in my room.
Hitting became drumming… til some weeks
later I was offered to perform my first solo percussion in the once
famous "Mondays" at Théâtre de la Balsamine,
Brussels. Since then I’ve kept playing, mainly for dancers,
for all kinds of events, workshops or classe, in Belgium and abroad.
My taste for language and words is also evident in the writing of songs. Rhythmic or melodic fragments come, that I develop, put in shape and share, in the privacy of an apartment, a garden or a bar rather than on a podium. Could give it a try, though :-)
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My taste for language and words is also evident in the writing of songs. Rhythmic or melodic fragments come, that I develop, put in shape and share, in the privacy of an apartment, a garden or a bar rather than on a podium. Could give it a try, though :-)
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