Name: Day 1_ Aerowaves Dance Festival Luxembourg
Start: 2023-09-06
End: 2023-09-06
Location: Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumunster

06.09.2023

19:00

performance | contemporary dance

neimënster

Day 1_ Aerowaves Dance Festival Luxembourg

Join us for an enchanting evening of dance at the AeroWaves Dance Festival Luxembourg’s opening night! Experience the beauty and emotion of three captivating dance pieces that are sure to leave a lasting impression: Milena Ugren Koula – “In memory of…”, Loraine Dambermont – « Toujours de 3/4 face! » and Gaston Core – “The very last Nothern White Rhino”.

Loraine Dambermont

Toujours de 3/4 face !

According to Johnny Cadillac, a former Belgian karateka, « 3/4 face! » is the ultimate defensive position: a posture so precise that inevitably betrays a will of perfectionism and a deep desire for control. Loraine Dambermont makes this principle her own and, through a live tutorial, reveals her best self-defense secret skills. “Toujours de 3/4 face!” is a 20-minute hyper-energetic solo performed as a survival guide with hints of humour. Dambermont also tackles the complex Belgian identity through movements all directed towards the paroxysm of self-mockery.
This performance challenges the physical and mental virtuosity of the performer by pushing the limits of a constrained body between a marathon of hyper-fast movements, and the extreme precision of its own musicality.

Biography
Loraine Dambermont is a Belgian dancer and choreographer. Born in Liège in 1988, she has been based in Brussels for nearly 10 years. After graduating from Codarts and The Theaterschool – Academy of Dance and Arts in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, she focused on developing her own body language.
By mixing several dances techniques, from Hip-hop to Contemporary dance, focusing mainly on popping and floor work, she works towards creating an explosive energy. She enjoys the power of precision while moving and makes restless choreographies she likes to channel through a meticulous musical structure. Through dynamic dance movement, Loraine Dambermont creates captivating performances, which highlight the beauty of gestures by inviting the audience to live this intense experience together.
In 2013, she won a choreographic prize with the duet Buy My City at Amsterdam’s 16 MINUTES OF FAME festival, and since then started with her partner and friend Noora Hannula a deeper artistic collaboration.
She has worked with The Nordic Beasts/Noora Hannula (DK), Mute Comp. Physical theater (DK), Michèle Anne De Mey (BE), Itamar Serussi (IL), Beppie Blankert (NL), Etienne Rochefort (FR), Zahrbat / Brahim Bouchelaghem (FR) and recently Leslie Mannes (BE).
She is currently touring her latest solo production Toujours de 3/4 face! in Belgium and abroad and working on a new work which will be premiered at La Biennale Pays de Danse in February 2024 (BE).

Credits
Concept, choreography, and live performance: Loraine Dambermont
Music composition: Loraine Dambermont
Sound mixing advisor: Victor Petit
Light design: Rémy Urbain
Technical tour directors: Chams Madec and Gaspar Schelck
Outside eyes: Monica Gomes
Photographer: Hichem Dahes

Gaston Core

The very last Nothern White Rhino

With the utmost aesthetic simplicity, this choreographic solo, based on urban dance, questions the very possibility of happiness in the face of the world’s chaos.
When the New York Times journalist Sam Anderson knew about the death of the last male Northern White Rhinoceros, he took a flight to Kenya to observe and narrate in detail the daily lives of the last two female representatives of this species, which would disappear from the earth once they had died. The image of these individuals in ignorance of their species’ fate gave the reporter a sense of peace, at a time of global uncertainty.
Gastón Core seeks, through a formal investigation of different styles of urban dance (Krumping, Finger Tutting, Waving, Afro …), to offer the image of the Man –the dancer Oulouy– who dances because he has discovered that, as Paul Valéry puts it, we have “too much energy for our needs”. That is, to present dance as excess, as a celebration derived from life. Dance to exhaustion, dance to the end because maybe there is nothing more that can be done.

Biography
Born in Buenos Aires, Gaston Core has a background as a dancer and performer and studied audiovisual communication at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Dancer, actor, cultural manager and dramaturg, he trained as a performer and dancer and studied audiovisual communication at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Since moving to Europe in 2001, he has continued his training in these two fields, obtaining a degree in dramaturgy and directing at Barcelona’s Institut del Teatre while working with European film producer and distributor Paco Poch. He worked with various companies as a performer and playwright/director until 2012, when he decided to devote himself exclusively to the Sala Hiroshima project, which he directed until its closure in 2021, supporting the most innovative trends on the international contemporary scene. Since his first artistic project, he has worked in collaboration with Oulouy, a dancer specialising in urban and African dance. His research approach is to modify the dynamics and recognisable forms of these dances in order to explore their expressive essence.

Credits
Concept and direction: Gaston Core
Performance: Oulouy
Music: Jorge da Rocha
Lighting design: Ivan Cascon
Stylist: Eva Bernal
Collaboration: Aina Alegre
Documentation, photography and video: Alice Brazzit
Coproduction: Sala Hiroshima, Festival Grec de Barcelona
Support from: Centre Cívic Barceloneta
Thanks to: Juanjo Villalba y Mario R.

Milena Ugren Koulas

In memory of…

“In Memory Of…” is a little choreographic work that belongs to my ongoing bigger research about how trauma affects people and how traumatic experiences shape the way we think, move, communicate, and relate to others. In this piece, I explored with dancers some scientific research about trauma in an abstract and physical way. The tension of movement in the choreography, transitions between movement and how we relate to each other was influenced by the information about what trauma is.

Biography
Milena Ugren Koulas is a Serbian/Cypriot choreographer. She was born in 1979 in the former Yugoslavia. She graduated from Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam in 2003 and from COMMA Master Choreography in Holland in 2019. For the past 18 years, she has lived and worked as a professional dancer and choreographer in Cyprus. In collaboration with her husband, drummer George Koulas, Milena has created and performed in Cyprus and abroad in Serbia, Greece, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, and Turkey. Milena was one of the artists selected by Aerowaves in 2015. In 2019-2020 she was a guest choreographer at Codarts University and in 2020 she was a visiting professor at COMMA Master Choreography.

Credits
Chorégraphe : Milena Ugren Koulas
Danseuses : Elena Gavriel, Katerina Tylliridou, Magda Argyridou, Anna Nicolaou
Musique : George Koulas

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