Choreography Julien Carlier  Interpretation Julien Carlier, Mike Sprogis  Dramaturgy  Fanny Brouyaux, Simon Carlier  Music Simon Carlier Drums Tom Malmendier  Light design  Frederic Vannes  Light technician  Grégoire Tempels / Elouise Royannais (alternately) Set design  Justine Bougerol  Costumes  Marine Stevens  Development, communication and diffusion BLOOM Project

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Production Cie Abis With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Service de la Danse, Charleroi danse, Ultima-Vez, KVS, Jacques Franck Cultural Center, Namur Cultural Center, TROIS CL of the Grand Luxe network, Grand Studio and Wallonie Bruxelles International.

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This show was created in June 2019 at Centre Culturel Jacques Franck.

​A human encounter across disciplines and age

 

GOLEM is an artistic dialogue between dancer and choreographer Julien Carlier and 75-year-old sculptor Mike Sprogis. Through their different disciplines and ages, Golem is constructed as a distorting mirror of their life paths. One interprets dance as an ephemeral sculpture in motion, the other sees the sculptor's gestures as a source of dance. On stage, the manipulated clay blurs the
boundary between the inert and the living.

Belgian contemporary dancer and choreographer, Julien Carlier stems his choreographic language from breakdance. Mike Sprogis is a Canadian sculptor whose organic works have been presented in several exhibitions in France. Coming from two apparently different backgrounds both artists engage in a dialogue that confronts their physicality and influences their respective disciplines.

The boundaries between sculpture and dance fade while the mud becomes a man and the man, at times, appears like a lifeless matter. At this crossroad, physical commitment is required. It is through the strength of their work and their exhaustion that the total symbiosis between the two artists emerges, a link between their life paths and their artistic journeys that ends up transforming them. As the two techniques combine and blend, GOLEM becomes a symbol of the
double, of the act of creation.

An organic, sensitive and poetic performance that reveals the passage of time, our repeated gestures and their impact on body and mind.