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Rivermen travel through time and space just like the river on which they live. Sometimes winding and ambigous, sometimes turbulent and agressive, frothy and sparkling. At other times slow and dark. their movements appear to spring from the forms and colors the within the river's flow - on its surface, but also in its depths. Are the men refelctions of the river's luminance or resonances of its sound? Dependent? Independent? Maybe. Or maybe they're just the river thinking about itself. [Quelle: Cover zur VHS] Men of the river ' wading into it, moving through it, climbing out of it. Walking by it, running with it, floating on it. Famously, getting on with it. The choreography of “Rivermen”s characterised by the words complexity, change and continuum. Complexity as in the infinitely faceted character ' surface and depth ' of a river. Change as in the renewal of the passing water at each and every instant. Continuum as in its seemingly timeless existence. With the special projection set-up the video image acquires a new status. It is no longer limited to the two dimensions of a screen. It becomes once again light. It constitutes a moving surface supporting the dance and acts upon the dancers’ bodies transforming them, integrating them into its own structure. The dancers’ bodies approach this surface with circumspection. They touch it, pull away and come back, cross it with rapid steps, go along its edge and plunge into it. The surface reveals itself to be a third partner. A third body as an extension of the dancers’ bodies and vice versa. The ebb and flow of one seeps into the movements of the other resulting in the creation of a harmonious ensemble that is at times put in danger by one of its constituents. A violent ritual leading to a greater adhesion between three bodies. 

CHOREOGRAPHY AND CONCEPT: Bud Blumenthal

INTERPRETATION: Fernando Martin, Bud Blumenthal

MUSIC AND VIDEO: Antonin De Bemels

LIGHT: Jacques Deneumoustier

COSTUMES: Cathy Peraux

PRODUCTION: Cie Bud Blumenthal / Tandem asbl with the help of the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium, Service de la danse and the SACD "1500 heures à danser"

TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Charleroi/Danses

// EN FRANÇAIS //

La chorégraphie de Rivermen se caractérise par les termes "complexité", "transformation" et "continuum". Complexité comme dans la nature, la surface et la profondeur infiniment facetées d'une rivière. Transformation comme dans le renouveau du courant qui varie à  chaque instant. Continuum comme dans son apparente existence intemporelle. La danse et la surface sur laquelle elle se produit convergent simultanément. Grâce au dispositif de projection en plongée, l'image vidéo acquiert un nouveau statut. Elle n'est plus limitée à  la surface en deux dimensions d'un écran de projection. Elle redevient lumière et, en plus de constituer une surface en mouvement comme support à  la danse, elle agit sur le corps même des danseurs, le transformant, l'intégrant à  sa structure. Cette surface se révèle être un troisième partenaire, un troisième corps. La composition musicale est conçue par assemblage de sons électroniques, en un processus similaire au montage vidéo. Un travail sur la texture sonore et les sensations produites par la superposition, la répétition et l'entrelacement de sons. 

CHORÉGRAPHIE ET CONCEPT: Bud Blumenthal

INTERPRETATION: Fernando Martin, Bud Blumenthal

MUSIQUE ET VIDÉO: Antonin De Bemels

LUMIÈRE: Jacques Deneumoustier

COSTUMES: Cathy Peraux

PRODUCTION: Cie Bud Blumenthal / Tandem asbl avec l'aide du Ministère de la Communauté française de Belgique, Service de la danse et de la SACD "1500 heures à danser".

SUPPORT TECHNIQUE: Charleroi/Danses

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