9-14 May 2023
Mette Ingvartsen
Skatepark
© Bea Borgers
© Bea Borgers
Chaillot nomade à La Villette
Skaters, dancers, one stage. A real encounter beyond age between individuals who never stop challenging and pushing the limits of their possibilities.
Driven by an extensive conception of dance, choreographer and performer Mette Ingvartsen explores a hybrid territory in direct contact with other fields such as visual arts and technology. In a wide variety of forms, her projects focus in particular on the relationship between bodies and their environment. A few years ago, Mette Ingvartsen was struck by the performative effervescence in a skate park in her home town of Brussels and felt the desire to bring it to the stage. This is how Skatepark took shape, a large-scale creation that mobilises some twenty performers, half of whom are recruited from each performance city. Conceived as a living, even fluttering, environment shared by different individuals and small groups, the piece deploys a multitude of actions and movements. In close interference with the public space that inspires it, the work transmits throughout an extreme physical jubilation and gives us a glimpse of a lively community in all its splendour.
Jérôme Provençal
Concept and choreography Mette Ingvartsen
Choreographic assistant Michaël Pomero
Sound design Anne van de Star and Peter Lenaerts
Lighting design Minna Tiikkainen
Set design Pierre Jambé/Antidote
Dramaturgy Bojana Cvejić
Technical management Hans Meijer
Production and administration officer Joey Ng
Production assistant Oihana Azpillaga Camio
Management Ruth Collier
With Damien Delsaux, Manuel Faust, Aline Boas, Mary-Isabelle Laroche, Sam Gelis, Fouad Nafili, Júlia
Rúbies Subirós, Thomas Birzan, Briek Neuckermans, Indreas Kifleyesus, Arthur Vannes, Camille Gecchele
and 5 local skaters
Production Great Investment vzw
Coproduction La Danse en grande forme (CNDC, Angers ; Malandain Ballet Biarritz ; La Manufacture, CDCN de Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux-La Rochelle ; CCN de Caen en Normandie ; L’échangeur, CDCN des Hauts-de-France ; CCN2 de Grenoble ; La Briqueterie, CDCN du Val-de-Marne ; CCN, Ballet national de Marseille ; CCN de Nantes ; CCN d’Orléans ; Atelier de Paris, CDCN ; Le Gymnase, CDCN de Roubaix, Hauts-de-France ; La Place de la danse, CDCN de Toulouse-Occitanie ; MC2: Grenoble) / De Singel, Anvers / Vooruit, Gand / Kaaitheater, Théâtre national, Bruxelles / Charleroi Danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie, Bruxelles / Next Festival, Kortrijk, Lille / Ruhrtriennale, Düsseldorf, Essen / La Villette, Paris / Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse, Paris / Wiener Festwochen, Tanzquartier Wien, Vienne / International Theatre Rotterdam / Perpodium
Supported by Wilhelm Hansen Fonden
Great Investment is supported by The Flemish Authorities, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, The Danish Arts Council & The Flemish Community Commission (VGC)