MUSIC HOLE (2025)
In his latest creation Music Hole, Steven Michel takes the figure of the ghost as his starting point to question our relationship to the passage of time, to memory and to the invisible.
Inspired by spiritualist practices and the notion of hauntology – a portmanteau word combining ‘haunt’ and ‘ontology’ which refers to the ghostly traces that persist through time and infiltrate the present, ghostly resurgences that provoke impressions of déjà vu – the choreographer explores and transposes this spectral imagination to the stage.
How do ghosts manifest themselves today? How can bodies become the relay for these invisible presences? How do these ghosts enter our reality? How can a body be taken over by a movement that is past, present and future?
In a liminal space, haunted by sound and light, four performers give themselves over to gestures, words, images, sensations, memories, hallucinated matter and fiction. Somewhere between dance mania, cathartic performance and contemporary phantasmagoria, Music Hole offers a sensory and subliminal journey into our psyche and our beliefs.
In Dutch, the sentence ‘Het verleden achtervolgt ons’ – literally, ‘The past follows us’ – sounds much less rich in imagery than the English sentence ‘The past haunts us’. And yet that is exactly what choreographer Steven Michel represents in sound and image in ‘Music Hole’. What starts out as a conceptual dance turns into a dark and humorous journey involving zombies and ghosts.
Liv Laveyne, in PZAZZ, March 25
CREDITS
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY Steven Michel
SOUND COMPOSITION Raphaëlle Latini
DRAMATURGY Lynda Rahal
PERFORMERS, CREATED FOR AND WITH Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher, Inga Huld Hakonardottir, Marina Sangra, Nathan Ooms
LIGHTING DESIGN Max Adams
COSTUMES Miguel Peñaranda Olmeda – olmedam
VOCAL COACHING Valérie Joly
OUTSIDE EYE Cherish Menzo
SOUND ENGINEERING Jo Heijens
TOUR TECHNICIANS to be confirmed
PRODUCTION GRIP (Hanne Doms, Anneleen Hermans, Rudi Meulemans, Lize Meynaerts, Klaartje
Oerlemans, Jennifer Piasecki, Sylvie Svanberg, Nele Verreyken) INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION A propic – Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent
CO-PRODUCTION Charleroi danse – centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, ICI – CCN Montpellier-Occitanie, Espace Pasolini / NEXT festival, STUK, Perpodium
RESIDENCIES Espace Pasolini laboratoire artistique Valenciennes, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, STUK, ICI – CCN Montpellier-Occitanie, Charleroi danse – centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, CAMPO, kunstencentrum nona
WITH THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF the Flemish Government, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest
Photo by Shira Marek
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