every now and then mette edvardsen

In the piece every now and then Mette Edvardsen and Philippe Beloul invite the audience to read a book as a performance.

The idea is to create a space and a time inside a book, like a piece in a theatre. For the whole duration of the piece the audience

can read through the pages and the spaces of the book at the same time as they follow what is taking place on stage. The book

is direct, tactile and persistent, giving the audience another access to the piece. The reader of a book can decide for him/ herself

the reading direction, the tempo and the space. With the book, ‘every now and then’ is a piece to delve into, proposing an

individual reading combined with a collective experience. How does the experience of reading a book merge with the experience

watching a performance, how does the book read after the performance is over?

”For EVERY NOW AND THEN we consider the page to be a space. More than being just a surface and ‘a floor’ it is now

a space with depth and perspective. I am interested in creating this dimension of a space on the page not only through

representation, but also through the movements and actions we perform inside of it. In combination with the

performance that takes place on stage, how can the space enhance the reading of the page in another way and make

us experience it as ‘space’? And in return, how can the reading of the book enhance our experience of the performance

and change the way we see, understand and imagine the space to be? I am interested in the relation between the

‘small world’ of the book and the ‘bigger world’ of the theatre and how the notion of the book translates into the real

space. How do we experience the performance on the page, and the other way around, how do we read the theatre

space when we think of it as a page in a book?

The piece unfolds through the turning of pages and the imagination of a space, of a time, of a performance. We want to

explore what takes place outside the pages, behind the rooms, between the times, in the folds of the book, along the

edges of space. With every turning of a page a new space appears, in layers on top of each other. How can we

imagine such architecture? Pages after pages of spaces bound together in a complex architecture called ‘book’? Do we

imagine a corridor where we move through space after space, or is the space always the same one and we only move

through time? When a performer exits to the right on one page, will she enter from the left on the next page, or the

right? Is the space on the left book page the mirror of the space on the right page? How does this affect our

understanding of space and our movements on stage? How does this translate to reality, to the theatre? Is there a

space behind the space that we see?

Is the space in EVERY NOW AND THEN the representation of the book or is the book the representation of the space?

What came first, the book or the space? Is one a model of the other? Are we performers models of the figures in the

book? Is the performance a memory of what was happening in the book, or is the book the trace of the performance?

And if so, how is it possible that the book exists before the performance is over?”

- Mette Edvardsen

CREDITS

concept: mette edvardsen

created & performed by: philippe beloul & mette edvardsen

light: jan van gijsel

sound: charo calvo

graphic design: michael bussaer

photos: julien lanoo

production: helga duchamps/ duchamps vzw & mette edvardsen/athome

coproduced by: stuk kunstencentrum (leuven), workspace brussels

in collaboration with: vooruit (gent), netwerk (aalst), kaaitheater, de pianofabriek & les brigittines (brussels)

supported by: vlaamse gemeenschap, norsk kulturråd, fond for utøvende kunstnere

PERFORMANCES

6 + 7 November 2009 - Playground festival Stuk/ Leuven

4 + 5 December 2009 Kaaitheaterstudio’s/ Brussels

18 December 2009 Netwerk/ Aalst

20 March 2010 Black Box Teater/ Oslo

20 + 21 April 2010 Vooruit/ Gent

autumn 2010 Rådstua Teaterhus/ Tromsø (tbc)

autumn 2010 Bastard Festival, Teaterhuset Avantgarden/ Trondheim (tbc)

(for more future dates check the agenda on www.duchamps.org)

BIO'S

METTE EDVARDSEN

The work of Mette Edvardsen is situated within the performing arts field, also exploring other media or other formats such as

video and writing. She has worked for several years as a dancer and performer for Les Ballets C. de la B. with Hans Van den

Broeck (1996-2000) and Christine de Smedt (2000-2005), and danced in pieces by ZOO\Thomas Hauert (B), Bock/ Vincenzi (UK),

Mårten Spångberg (S), Lynda Gaudreau (CAN), deepblue (N/B), and others. She created and produced two pieces in

collaboration with Lilia Mestre (P/B), and the project Sauna in Exile in collaboration with Heine R. Avdal, Liv Hanne Haugen and

Lawrence Malstaf in 2002/2004. She choreographed and danced a version of Thomas Lehmen's Schreibstück together with

Christine de Smedt and Mårten Spångberg in 2004. Her own work includes the pieces Private collection (2002), Time will show

(detail) 2004, Opening (2005/ 2006), The way/ you move (installation, 2006), or else nobody will know (2007), and the video

works Stills (2002), coffee (2006), cigarette (2008) and Faits divers (2008). She presents her works internationally and continues

to develop projects with other artists, both as a collaborator and as a performer.

PHILIPPE BELOUL

Besides working as a performer Philippe Beloul makes his own performances, soundinstallations and pieces. He created the solo-

performances Welcome Home (2007) and iMoi (2004/2005), the audio-creation Migrant (2000), the audio-installations Mon

premier livre de monde animal (1999), Mes amis les bêtes (2002), Apprendre a mieux connaître son chien (2000), the soundtrack

voor Solo Renversé a piece by Sara Ludi and Opening by Mette Edvardsen. As a performer he worked for ao. Alain Platel/Les

Ballets C. De la B. La Tristeza Complice, Hush Hush Hush Via, Walter Verdin X/Africa, Peeping Tom Une vie inutile, Alexandra

Bachzetsis Secret Instructions and Musical, Mette Edvardsen Or else nobody will know. He also appeared in the Pierre

Coulibeuf/(Meg Stuart) film Somewhere in Between.

MICHAEL BUSSAER

Michaël Bussaer graduated as graphic designer at Sint-Lukas Hogeschool Gent in 1996. Almost immediately after he started

working as graphic designer for Arts Center Vooruit in Gent, where he stayed till 2002. Since then he works as freelance graphic

designer for ao. P.A.R.T.S., BOZAR, Argos, Anouk De Clercq and Firefly in Brussels, MuHKA, Jaarboek Architectuur Vlaanderen,

VAI and Koen van den Broek in Antwerp, S.M.A.K., Les Ballets C de la B, Wim Cuyvers and Victoria in Gent, the Museum für

Gegenwartskunst in Basel and Centrum voor beeldende kunst & architectuur Stroom in Den Haag. In 2003 he was researcher at

the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and since 2002 he teaches graphic design at the Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunst

Sint-Lucas in Gent.

JULIEN LANOO

Julien Lanoo finished his studies as graphic designer at Sint Lucas Gent in 2007. At the same time he studied photography at the

Academy Sint Lucas. Immediately after graduating he started working as an assistant for photographer Wim Van De Genachte.

Less then one year later, in 2009, he installed himself as an independant photographer. Since then he works for Vitra, Bekaert,

Mental Squint, Audi, Maison Roger Royal Hairdresser, TossB, NMBS, De Tijd, Castelein, Sony Music, Design Nation, Mark

Magazine, Dierendonck Blancke architecten, Tank Architecten, Graphemes, JJ Maes, Nathan Maroquinier, Informazout, Levi’s

Jeans, Dizz Design, Ligne Pure, Week van de Amateur kunsten, De Gouden Gids, Truvo, Bannanas, Amphion, Febelfin, Puilaco,

Kwintessens ( Design Vlaanderen). At the moment this young photographer is stil working for his own studio.

JAN VAN GIJSEL

He studied at Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brussels where he received his master degree in Audiovisual Arts in 2001. Since 2005

Van Gijsel primarily works as the lighting designer and thechnical director of dance company ZOO/Thomas Hauert. He also

designed lights for other choreographers like Mette Edvardsen, Manuela Rastaldi and Lilia Mestre to name a few. He was also

engaged in several video creations as a camera assistant or lighting designer. As a video artist he worked for Ingrid von

Wantoch Rekowski on the installation Rubens Métamorphoses (2004). As a performer, Van Gijsel was last seen in Tearjerker by

Davis Freeman. Jan Van Gijsel also occationally teaches video, multi media, and lighting workshops. Presently he works on new

light designs for Bent Object and Mette Edvardsen. Since 2003 he teaches video at the Hogeschool Antwerpen and since 2005

he is technical director for Zoo/Thomas Hauert.

CHARO CALVO

After her studies Physics at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Classical Singing at the Jesus Larate Institute in Madrid and

Contemporary Dance in Madrid, Cologne and Brussels Charo Calvo was one of the founders, with Blanca Calvo and La Ribot of

the contemporary dancecompany Bocanada Danza in 1981. Between 1987 and 1991 she danced in the shows What the Body

Does Not Remember, Les porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles, Le Poids de la Main and the dance film Roseland by Ultima

Vez/Wim Vandekeybus. Since 2001 Charo Calvo teaches sounddesign at Erasmus Hogeschool/ Kunsten & Media/RITS in

Brussels, the Academy of Mons and KASK in Ghent. She made sounddesign and music for film and video: Rue Verte (Dorothée

van de Berghe), State of Dogs (Peter Brosens), L'Eclipse de St. Gilles (Peter Kruger & Peter Brossens), Lichaampje, Lichaampje,

The Concilience, Lancelot, Is the brain the more sexy part of the body? (Jan Fabre), Any Way the Wind Blows (Tom Barman), The

Last Words, Inasmuch, In Spite of Wishing and Wanting, Blush, Here After (Wim Vandekeybus) etc. Charo Calvo also made

compositions for dance, theater and installations: Immer das Selbe Gelogen, Mountains Made of Barking, Alle Grossen Decken

Sich Zu, Exhaustion of Dreamt Love, 7 for a Secret never to be told (Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez), They feed we (EAT, EAT,

EAT) (Hans van den Broeck / Les Ballets C de la B), All Natural (Kate McIntosh), Gerucht (Lotte van den Berg), Glowing Icons

(Jan Fabre), Zeven (Inne Goris & Bronks) etc. Charo Calvos acousmatic compositions are presented at international festivals in

Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Venezueal & the UK and broadcasted by radiostations in many other countries.

METTE EDVARDSEN - TOURLIST

easy pieces (2008)

The first part of a collaborative project with Berlin based choreographer and architect Paul Gazzola. Invited to Dansand! Festival in

Ostende in July, proposing a workshop and presenting a performance on two evenings.

coffee& cigarette (2006/ 2008)

Two small video films created in the context of the work with or else nobody will know. Presented in Performatik 2 -

Kaaitheaterstudio’s/ Brussels 2007, and Plankton- Les bains::Connectives/ Brussels 2008. Will be part of the web site platform

extension of the Festival In-Presentable at La casa Encendida in Madrid.

or else nobody will know (2007)

Presented in STUK/ Leuven (premiere), Kaaitheaterstudio’s/ Brussel, Vooruit/ Gent, Black Box Teater/ Oslo 2007.

Rådstua Teaterhus/ Tromsø 2008.

The way / you move (2006)

Presented in Plankton Les Bains::Connectives/ Brussels, 2006, The game is up! Vooruit/ Gent 2007, Performatik 2-

Kaaitheaterstudio's/ Brussel 2007.

Opening (2005/ 2006)

Short version presented as part of evening program by Les Ballets C. de la B. in Vooruit/ Gent, Tanzquartier/ Vienna, Theatre de la

Ville- Les Abbesses/ Paris, Hau 1- Hebbel theater/ Berlin 2005.

Long version presented in Kaaitheaterstudio’s/ Brussels (premiere), BIT-Teatergarasjen/ Bergen 2006, Black Box Teater/ Oslo,

Long night of dance Kaaitheater/ Brussel 2007.

Time will show (detail) 2004, performance. (2004)

Versions created for and performed in the spaces: Gent/ Vooruit- PARCOURS 3: Bodyworks, Brussels/ Nadine, Brussels/

Kaaitheaterstudio’s, 2004. Black Box Teater/ Oslo, Raum- ‘Living room’ /Bologna, 2005. Performatik 2 - Kaaitheaterstudio's/

Brussel, Het gebouw- STUK/ Leuven, Borderline Festival, Platform China and Theatre in Motion/ Beijing 2007. Festival In-

Presentable- La Casa Encendida/ Madrid 2008.

Private collection (2002)

Presented in Nadine/ Brussels, Message Salon/ Zurich 2002. Procecos Coreograficos- La Casa Encendida/ Madrid, CAPITALS -

Gulbenkian Foundation/ Lisbon, Festival Meteor- BIT/ Bergen, In:motion -TOU Scene/ Stavanger 2003. Black Box Teater/ Oslo,

Panacea- Dansens Hus/ Stockholm, Living room- Raum/ Bologna, La Batie Festival/ Geneva, Kaaitheaterstudio’s/ Brussels 2004.

Theatre now! Kiasma/ Helsinki, Kulturhus Århus/ Århus, Pursuit of happiness! Kunst in Leidsche Rijn /Utrecht 2005. Video dance,

Thessaloniki Film Festival/ Athens 2007.

Stills (videowork 2002)

Created in the context of the project Sauna in Exile in Tromsø 2002, presented during the Nordic Scene Festival by Les

Bains::Connectives and Kaaitheater/Brussel 2002, and Norlys Festivalen at Rådstua Teaterhus/Tromsø 2004. Further

presentations at Goldsmith University- Design Futures/ London in 2003, PARCOURS/ Bodyworks in Vooruit/ Gent 2004, Fricties in

Vooruit/ Gent 2005, Dance Night in Kaaitheater/ Brussels 2005, dansCAMdans- Filmplateau/ Gent, 2005. Figura N° Galleria

d’Arte Moderna – Xing /Bologna, 2006. Video dance, Thessaloniki Film Festival/ Athens 2007, Borderline Festival, Platform China

- Theatre in Motion/ Beijing 2007, Festival In-Presentable- La Casa Encendida/ Madrid 2008.

INFO & CONTACT

Helga Duchamps/ duchamps vzw

Zelfbestuursstraat 9

1070 Brussel

T +32 497 45 58 10

helga@duchamps.org

www.duchamps.org

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