Holland Festival: Marc Vanrunxt (BE) - Freie Form

Free Form

Freie Form investigates who creates the dance: the dancer or the choreographer? The performance also explores how memories can live in bodies, objects, costumes and sound. By reusing objects and costumes from previous performances, such as the silver cloth from Pink & Orange (2020) and a dress from Antropomorf from 26 years ago, Marc brings them back to life.

The dancers in Freie Form are Samantha van Wissen and Igor Shyshko. Samantha was formed by her years with dance company Rosas and choreographer Thomas Hauert. Igor integrates memories from Belarusian folklore and classical ballet. Also on stage is mezzo-soprano Els Mondelaers, with whom Marc has worked regularly. Els sings music by Morton Feldman and Yoko Ono in Freie Form .

Freie Form is a sculpture by the Austrian artist Franz West from 1998, and is located in the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp. Marc Vanrunxt sees this object as a positive reinforcement of the possibilities for the future. The 'freie form' raises questions: what is free? What is form and what is a free form? Does this exist and is there such a thing as formlessness in nature, in life, in art? With a discussion afterwards on Tuesday 24 June