Where is everybody?

What contents and aesthetics emerge when we move beyond the conventions of contemporary dance? The Platform K dancers’ artistic input forms a starting point for the creation. The improvisation techniques developed by ZOO invite a wide-ranging movement language and spontaneous, intricate interactions with other dancers, the space or the music. The material grows into a composition that explores and expands the possibilities of dance.

“The creative process of this performance is essentially about the time you spend together and how this slowly reduces the distance between bodies.”

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CONCEPT AND DIRECTION: Thomas Hauert 
RESEARCH AND CREATION: Anna Dujardin, Thomas Hauert, Sarah Ludi, Anthony Quintard, Oskar Stalpaert, Samantha van Wissen, Mat Voorter
PERFORMED BY: 3 Platform K dancers (Anna Dujardin, Anthony Quintard, Oskar Stalpaert) and 3 ZOO dancers (Thomas Hauert, Sarah Ludi, Samantha van Wissen, Mat Voorter) 
MUSIC: Salvatore Sciarrino, Sui poemi concentrici II / Jonny Greenwood, Mata Aini Kuru kara Ne / Aigel, Tatarin / Vienna Brass, Alles Walzer: 3. Satz / Ray Charles, It Ain’t Easy Being Green / The Communards, Lovers and friends / Hildegard Knef, Für mich soll’s rote Rosen regnen / Patti Page, Tennessee Waltz / Peggy Lee, Is That All There Is? / George Michael, Freedom! / Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83 
COSTUMES: ZOO, private collection Mat Voorter, design Bernhard Willhelm 
SCENOGRAPHY: Chevalier-Masson (set design originally created for FLOT in 2018, produced by the CCN Ballet de Lorraine and adapted for Where is everybody?)
LIGHT: Bert Van Dijck 
SOUND / GUITAR: Bart Celis / If Sound Matters
PRODUCTION: Platform K & ZOO/Thomas Hauert 
COPRODUCTION: Charleroi danse - Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Comédie de Genève, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, STUK, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, DC&J Création 
THANKS TO: P.A.R.T.S., Rosas, Tictac Art Centre 
SUPPORTED BY: Ein Kulturengagement des Lotterie-Fonds des Kantons Solothurn, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Service de la danse, Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, the City of Ghent, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and Inver Tax Shelter, the Government of Flanders