exUTERO
Creation 20 - 22 March 2025 / Les Brigittines
25 minutes
Carried away in a hypnotic whirling from which light seems to emanate, a being is transfigured as it sheds its multiple skins, discovering over the course of metamorphoses its stigmata and its power. Close to the trance of the spinning dervishes, exUTERO is an attempt to return to authenticity after having dropped the masks, to figure the letting go and taste the rediscovery of oneself.
At the crossroads of illusion and choreographic and visual performance, exUTERO is a necessary inner tornado, an act of liberation that sweeps away superficialities to reveal only this essential which constitutes us.
TITLE
In the title exUTERO, there are notions of exteriority and interiority, of the relationship between the world and oneself, and by extension the question of the impact of events on the construction of our identity. (In utero refers to what affects the embryo and foetus). There is also the outlet to free oneself from the confinement of multiple layers of protection accumulated over a lifetime. And then surely exult, to let go to the infinite whirl, to reinvent once lightened of the deposited weights, to surprise oneself by the magic of salutary transformation.
DIPTYCH
Inspired by a composition by Yair Elazar Glotman, exUTERO will form with the solo Carcan a diptych of short pieces, based respectively on a global movement of the body repeated or discontinuous: the turn in a fixed and central point of space, and the swing of a front step. On these unique motifs, variations of both metric and organic arms develop in contrast, thus allowing a constant evolution of the form and meaning that it evokes. The hypnotic effect interests me in this specific place where it stems from a sense of permanence, but with a perpetual evolution and transformation of the image. May then emerge a multitude of figures invoking in this diptych the liberation of the body, while paradoxically revealing it trapped in its own representations. Following the reverse path of Carcan, where the dancer becomes the receptacle of a series of female incarnations, exUTERO will expose the stripping of a being, from unveiling to transfiguration, until apparent bareness.
CREDITS
Concept, Artistic direction and Performance Shantala Pèpe
Musical Composition Yair Elazar Glotman
Skins Patricia Eggerickx, Rebecca Flores Martinez, Stéphane Jossart
Assistant costumes (intern) Coline Paquet
Lighting Hugues Girard and Guillaume Toussaint Fromentin
Dramaturgical overlook Guillaume Toussaint Fromentin
Choreographic overlook Frauke Mariën
Production MANA
Coproduction Les Brigittines - Playhouse for Movement
Supports Le Delta, Centre culturel d'Engis, Le Marni, Les Tanneurs, Zahrada-Centre culturel GARDEN, Danse avec les foules, Théâtre de la Vie
Photos©Stéphane Jossart
OPENING PERFORMANCES
20 - 22 March 2025 Les Brigittines - Playhouse for Movement, Brussels BE
as part of the event Puissances seules
3 February 2025 Théâtre de la Vie, Brussels BE
<< Work in Progress as part as Lundynamite #13 >>
16 January 2025 Le Delta, Namur BE
<< Try out opened to the public >>
TOUR DATES
24 - 25 September 2025 Zahrada-Centre culturel GARDEN, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
October 2026 Danse Avec les Foules 13, Brussels BE
2026 Engis Cultural Center, BE