Screws

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Usually, a bowling ball has only one function: to knock over as many pins as possible at the end of the lane. But what if you remove this object from its usual environment? The performance Screws (2019) turns the relationship between the body and the object around. Objects are fastened to the body, either providing support or throwing it off balance, allowing gravity to be overcome or rather enhancing its effects. With the help of ice shoes, bowling balls, antigravity shoes and other objects, the dancers of Screws defy the laws of physics.

In Screws, together with four dancer-acrobats, Alexander Vantournhout guides you along a route of reverberating micro performances, from short solos and duets to pointed group choreographies. This site-specific performance invites the spectators out of their seats and guides them on a parcours through a particular building. Free to chose the angle they want to perceive each miniature composition from.

This publication gives an insight in the creation process. Texts by Rudi Laermans, Charlotte De Somviele, Sébastien Hendrickx and Alexander himself are accompanied by images of photographer Bart Grietens.

Photos Bart Grietens

Text Charlotte De Somviele, Sébastien Hendrickx, Rudi Laermans, Alexander Vantournhout

Translation Patrick Lennon (EN), Marc Van der Wielen (FR)

Editing Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx, Cyrille Roussial

Design Mats Minnaert

Print Die Keure, Brugge

With the support of the Flemish Governement.

Published by not standing

ISBN 9789464204537