Moving Futures Festival: Zäsur

Zäsur is a choreographic exploration of desire and desolation, musically propelled by waves of Mahler and Metal. A female performer looks at a distant and near past and, in a search for insight, enters into a dialogue with, among others, Gustav Mahler, Friedrich Hölderlin, Rosa Luxemburg, Yvonne Rainer, Straub/Huillet and experimental metal genres. As she moves in and out of the choreographic space, the audience is invited to follow her in a labyrinth of intensity and distance, intimate and distant situations. She always asks herself: ‘Why did it happen this way and not otherwise?’.

 

Bio
Elisabeth Borgermans studied linguistics and literature at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. After graduating from college she started at the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg and finished her dance education at the Artesis Royal Conservatory of Dance in 2009. She has worked as a performer at home and abroad and made her first own performance as a choreographer in 2016 about the beauty of craftsmanship - To Paint is To Love Again - in collaboration with De Nieuwe Vorst and DansBrabant. She was also previously a participant in the annual International Choreographers Week of Fontys and DansBrabant, in which choreographers from all over the world exchange knowledge and skills for a week. Her current choreographic work revolves around developing contemporary interpretations of classical symphonic music and ancient literary text. In the '20-'21 season, together with Thomas Vantuycom (Rosas), she created a youth performance with music by Igor Stravinsky for fABULEUS, in collaboration with Concertgebouw Brugge and Brussels Philharmonic.

Credits

Choreography and performance	Elisabeth Borgermans
Musical dramaturgy and montage	Alain Franco
Artistic collaboration	Bryana Fritz, Thomas Vantuycom
Lights and technique	Luc Schaltin
Management and production	Lenneke Rasschaert
Production	BAIKE
Coproduction	C-TAKT, DansBrabant, Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond, Perpodium
Partners	Cultuurhuis de Warande, GC De Kroon
With support of	the Flemish government, the Taxshelter of the Belgian Federal Government, the Flemish Community Commission