ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Based in Brussels, Compagnie Thor was founded in 1990 by the choreographer Thierry Smits. He quickly gained international acclaim in the world of contemporary dance. Over the years, the company has produced more than twenty dance productions.Gathering excellent performing artists from around the world, the company has established its reputation touring throughout Belgium and abroad.
Thierry Smits’ work explores, often in an eclectic manner, the bonds between mystic and erotic, the ambiguity between the sacred and corporealness, and questions the metaphysical problems of the individual's state of mind and emotion. In his performances, oscillating between pure dance and dramatization,technical rigor and his gestural inventiveness are always present. In addition to his work focused on complex subjects and linked to an element ‘outside’ dance, Thierry Smits concentrates on dance itself – referring to nothing other than itself, giving priority to a study of form, choreographic composition, and the search for movement.
Thierry Smits’ work received several prices: in 1995 when he received the SACD-Belgium prize. In 1998, his creation Corps(e) received the Belgium Océ prize for the performing arts of the French speaking community. In 2008 he is awarded the 'Prix de la critique 2007' (the critics' Prize) for V.-Nightmares,for the best dance performance of season 2007-08.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
How to interfere with materials and movements?How to put the things in space?And let us question the sens of all this.
Is it about dance? Is it about politics? Or just about poetry?
1- This is my temple2- Forbidden action3- Oh my God!4- Let us breathe5- Flight over Beqaa6- Migration7- Flowers of hope8- We will disappea
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