performance / Gaëtan Rusquet / Performed by and created in collaboration with : Ayla Heier, Dani Petkovič, Ajda Opara, Don Ciglenecki. / Thanks to : Luka Piletič, Maša Šebek, Ajka Poljansek Zorn, Manca Kok, Vincent Boon, Živa Gostinčar, Klemen Janežič, Elis Seyto for their participation and kind feedback during the workshop.
About the Performance
This travel seeks the pleasure in being lost, knowing/not knowing, an attempt to be displaced, moved by others, through which the artist wishes to question the reciprocity of this action. The possibility of an encounter, sharing time. When does the moment we stop counting what we give occur? With others – humans or more than humans – the body, the motion of the eyes caressing territories and landscapes. The performance is about work and pleasure, gifts and sacrifice, and bears the traces of this journey. What is it to be touched, moved, cared for reciprocally? When do I give attention to a body?
About the artist
Gaëtan Rusquet (1984) obtained a master's degree in scenography and performance at ENSAV La Cambre, after studying applied arts at ENSAAMA, known as Olivier de Serre in Paris. He works as a performer, dancer, choreographer and scenographer, from performing arts to visual arts. In his artistic proposals, Gaëtan Rusquet looks at how one fits into a place - and what makes a medium - whether it is space, light, sound, video, movement, objects or materials, less defined. He seeks a ritualized form that brings their relationships into play, revealing their connectivity and power to act. He sees the time of performance as a moment of study and experience for the performers or the spectators. Each occurrence is thus an opportunity to request, update the stakes of the project. Like a sculptural object that constantly seeks its contours. Thus, the creation of scores creates a space for negotiating between the performer(s) and the public/witnesses.
At the same time, learning holistic care techniques feeds his practice and his approach to the body and its limits. This leads him to developing choreographic tools related to the perception of these bodies and energy fields, whether related to the body itself, or to the places and grounds in which the body is inscribed. Gaëtan Rusquet lives and works in Brussels.
Credits
performance / Gaëtan Rusquet
Performed and in collaboration with Ayla Heier, Daniel Petković, Ajda Opara, Don Ciglenecki.
Artistic eye: Mara Vujić
Executive production: Nastja Miheljak
Photography: Nada Žgank
Technical Director: Grega Mohorčič
Technical support: Brina Ivanetič, Žan Rantaša, Samo Dernovšek
Public Relations: Tina Malenšek, Paulina Pia Rogač
Special thanks to Luka Piletič, Maša Šebek, Ajka Poljansek Zorn, Manca Kok, Vincent Boon, Živa Gostinčar, Klemen Janežič, Elis Seyto for their participation and kind feedback during the workshop.
Production: Gledališče Glej
The performance is part of the Time for live art project
Support
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission, Creative Europe Culture programme.
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