Mette Ingvartsen

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 group piece Skatepark (in cooperation with Wiener Festwochen) and All Around, a duet with the drummer Will Guthrie, at TQW.

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Credits

Concept, choreography Mette Ingvartsen With Manon Santkin Choreographic assistant Thomas Bîrzan Technical direction, lighting design Hans Meijer Sound technician, sound design Milan Van Doren Technician Jan-Simon De Lille Music Will Guthrie, Peter Lenaerts, Gregorio Allegri, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, Benny Goodman Management Ruth Collier Production, administration Joey Ng Communication Jeroen Goffings Production Great Investment vzw Co-production STUK co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union in the frame of DANCE ON PASS ON DREAM ON, VIERNULVIER, Festival Montpellier Danse 2024, Tanzquartier Wien, Charleroi Danse – Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, SPRING, CND Centre national de la danse, Perpodium. Great Investment is supported by The Flemish Authorities, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, The Danish Arts Council and The Flemish Community Commission (VGC).

RUSH

RUSH is a solo performance for Manon Santkin that draws on 20 years of collaboration and performance within the choreographic work of Mette Ingvartsen. A celebration of an intense and long-lasting collaboration and a tribute to the act of performing itself, the piece creates a headlong rush of performance by reactivating and rewilding highlights from past works.

Manon Santkin revisits and performs material and scores from past performances, reshaping them through storytelling and narration. Like a chameleon, her body transforms as she passes through an intimate history, performing her own story within a larger body of work. A fine mesh of relations is evoked between the monstrous qualities of Manual Focus, the natural environments of The Artificial Nature Project, and the sexual politics of to come and 7 Pleasures, alongside a plethora of other works. Out of these connections emerges a surprising chronology, a rush of energy that captures the detail and pleasures of performing.