They fly through the air and defy gravity, listen to music, chat, laugh, sing and dance. At the skatepark, people from different communities get together, syncing their own bodies in coordination with the movements of the others and practising virtuoso physical experiments. In her new work, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen depicts the skatepark as a performative space and expands the common dance vocabulary to include kickturns, 180s and boardslides. Antidote, a global architectural firm specialising in skateparks in public spaces, designs a site that features ramps and rails, a stage setting that is as functional as it is extraordinary. In Skatepark, ten skaters play with the possibilities afforded by the space, the boards and community in a multitude of parallel actions. A vibrant choreography for the stage, carefully structured and condensed, emerges from everyday culture.
Concept, Choreography Mette Ingvartsen With Damien Delsaux, Manuel Faust, Aline Boas, Mary-Isabelle Laroche, Sam Gelis, Fouad Nafili, Júlia Rúbies Subirós, Thomas Bîrzan, Briek Neuckermans, Indreas Kifleyesus, Arthur Vannes, Camille Gecchele and the local skaters Fabian Seraji, Juri Schrems, Jan Hoffmann, Fleur Scott, Coconelle Kuppel, Aimé Ziegler, Daniel Mittinger Sound design Anne van de Star, Peter Lenaerts Light design Minna Tiikkainen Music Felix Kubin, Mord Records, Why the eye, sonaBLAST! Records, Rrose, The Fanny Pads, Restive Plaggona Scenography Pierre Jambé/Antidote Technical design set Stéphane Thonnard Construction set Joachim Pochet, Joachim Hesse, Pierre Jardon, Yves Philippaerts, Andrea Messana, Boyd Gates Dramaturgy Bojana Cvejić Costumes: Jennifer Defays Choreography assistance Michaël Pomero Technical direction Hans Meijer Sound technician Milan Van Doren, Yrjana Rankka, Filip Vilhelmsson Light technician Bennert Vancottem, Jan-Simon De Lille Production, Administration Joey Ng Production Oihana Azpillaga Camio Communication Jeroen Goffings Management Ruth Collier
Production Great Investment vzw Coproduction
Wiener Festwochen & Tanzquartier Wien, La Danse en grande forme (Cndc – Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, la briqueterie CDCN val-de-marne, CCN Ballet national de Marseille, Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes, Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN (Roubaix), La Place de La Danse - CDCN Toulouse-Occitanie, MC2: Grenoble), deSingel (Antwerp), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (Gent), Kaaitheater (Brussels) & Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Charleroi danse - Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, NEXT Arts Festival (Kortrijk), Ruhrtriennale (Bochum), La Villette & Théàtre national de Chaillot (Paris), Theater Rotterdam, Perpodium (Antwerp) Supported by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden Residency Rosas, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, deSingel Great Investment is supported by Vlaamse Overheid, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, the Danish Arts Council and Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
Premiere April 2023, Cndc Angers
