All Around
In All Around, spinning and turning, rhythm and speed become the main components of a performance that drives towards an ecstatic and trance-like intensity. ‘This piece feels like a cure for all the negative effects which control our times. It works like an energy injection’, says Mette Ingvartsen.
Will Guthrie and Mette Ingvartsen have followed each other’s work and collaborated at a distance over the past five years. In this drum/dance/duo, they perform live together for the first time, bringing their respective disciplines into proximity. The result is a fusion of forms: a music concert with dance. In All Around, the audience encircles a performance space inhabited by a drum kit, a moving light and the performers’ bodies.
is a Danish choreographer and dancer. Her work is characterised by hybridity and extends choreographic practices by combining dance and movement with other domains such as visual arts, technology, language and theory. Since establishing her company in 2003, her work has been presented widely throughout Europe, as well as in the US, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia. An important strand of her work was developed between 2009 and 2012 with The Artificial Nature Series, in which she focused on reconfiguring relations between human and non-human agency through choreography. By contrast, her series, The Red Pieces (2014–2017), inscribes itself into a history of human performance with a focus on nudity, sexuality and how the body historically has been a site for political struggles. Most recently, she showed The Dancing Public at TQW, a solo about the phenomenon of ‘dance crazes’ repeatedly reappearing over the centuries.
is an Australian drummer/percussionist living in France. He plays solo using different combinations of drums, percussion, amplification and electronics, and in groups such as THE AMES ROOM, Elwood & Guthrie, THE SOMMES ENSEMBLE and tētēma. His music has been released on several labels, including his own, Antboy Music.
Credits
Performance Will Guthrie & Mette Ingvartsen Lighting design, technical direction Hans Meijer Dramaturgy Bojana Cvejić Production assistant Joey Ng Production Mette Ingvartsen / Great Investment vzw With the support of Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek. Funded by The Flemish Authorities, Flemish Community Commission (VGC) & Danish Arts Council.
Combined ticket for All Around and Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä: Mark Andre & Gustav Mahler available at the Musikverein: € 32