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TOUJOURS DE 3/4 FACE!
/ Solo · Dance · from age 12 · 20'
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According to Johnny Cadillac, a former Belgian karateka, the 3⁄4 face is THE defense position par excellence! The choreographer and performer Loraine Dambermont appropriates this principle and delivers her personal guide to survival in the face of the expectation of chaos.
Choreographer, composer and performer Loraine Dambermont Sound mixing advisor Victor Petit Light creation Rémy Urbain Technical director Gaspar Schelck Stage management (alternating) Lucas Baccini / Adèle Evans / Chamsedine Madec / Gaspar Schelck External advisor Monica Gomes Photography Hichem Dahes
Production Lodbmt Tour manager BLOOM Project Partner The Théâtre de la Balsamine With the support of Islands/Suitcase Brussels, Le Théâtre Marni, Brussels (Be), Garage29, Brussels (Be), Studio 28 - Roubaix (Fr), L'Armande - Liège (Be), Le Center Culturel Bruegel - Perpetuum MOBILE Festival, La Roseraie, Brussels (Be), Theater aan de Rijn - Dance Flavors, Arnhem (Nl) & Wallonie-Bruxelles International
Special thanks to Johnny Cadillac for the inspiration
This show was created in November 2021 at Théâtre de la Balsamine.
According to Johnny Cadillac, a former Belgian karateka, the 3⁄4 face is THE defense position par excellence! The choreographer and performer Loraine Dambermont appropriates this principle and delivers her personal guide to survival in the face of the expectation of chaos.
TOUJOURS DE 3/4 FACE! is a solo, peppered with self-deprecation, which presents a live tutorial revealing the most infallible self-defense secrets to face the dangers that await us. Enough to joyfully face our society in all its unpredictability and its underlying violence.
The performance challenges the physical and mental virtuosity of the performer by pushing the limits of a body constrained between the endurance of a marathon of movements and the extreme precision of its own musicality. This offbeat show aims to be intense and explosive both in the choreographic writing and in the sincerity of the interpretation.
Both the project and the result obtained are part of surrealism
– Belgian surrealism, of course.
Nicolas Villodre
AEROWAVES Spring forward Twenty23