Our dramaturg Sara Vanderieck has been collaborating with choreographer Louise Vanneste on various creations since 2021. Today, Mossy Eye Moor will meet its first audience in Brussels in a presentation by KunstenFestivaldesArts and CharleroiDanse.
Following on from her solo 3 jours 3 nuits, Louise Vanneste continues with Mossy Eye Moor to explore geological phenomena, and more specifically the cycle of rock metamorphism. She invites 5 dancers to explore our ways of relating to them, plunging them into the limits of what is human and non-human, of what can be represented or fathomed. A choreographic orality emerges from stories gathered in the form of scientific information, hallucinations, memories and sensations, which manifest themselves on stage in different ways of addressing and sharing: copying, incorporating, symbolizing, explaining, making the subject of a lecture, diving/hallucinating, altering…
Bifurcations from one mode of dialogue to another unfold a language which, from the use of a gesture or a simple word to the articulation of a word or a dance, places the performers in a position to transmit and “tell”.
Together with the set design, the five male and female dancers form six individuals, six science-fictional entities named Mossy, who share with us what an intimate relationship with the combustion of fire, or the pressure and heat of a rock 60 meters below the surface, can generate in terms of presence, poetic affirmation and narratives that are either limpid or impenetrable to direct comprehension.
Mossy Eye Moor deploys a kaleidoscopic, non-hegemonic writing style in which sound, text, color, light and space work together to enhance the hollows of language when it sometimes appears opaque or indeterminate in our ways of telling and narrating, reading and perceiving.
Concept and choreography: Louise Vanneste | Choreography and dance: Eli Mathieu Bustos, Alice Giuliani, Maïté Maeum Jeannolin, Amandine Laval, Castélie Yalambo | Dramaturgy: Sara Vanderieck | Dramaturgical collaboration: Paula Almiron | Artistic collaboration and set design: Kasper Bosmans | Artistic collaboration and sound: Cédric Dambrain | Artistic collaboration and lighting design: Arnaud Gerniers | Choreographic assistant: Anja Röttgerkamp | Costumes: Esther Denis andAdam Halleux | Scientific collaboration: Sophie Opfergelt | Stage manager: Yorrick Detroy | Production, distribution and administration: Alix Sarrade
Production: Rising Horses | Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Charleroi danse, Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble in the context of Accueil Studio 2025, L’Atelier de Paris, Coop, Shelter Prod | | In collaboration with kunstencentrum BUDA
With the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, taxshelter.be, ING and the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government
Louise Vanneste is currently artist in residence at UCLouvain and associate artist at Vilar (LLN)
