Dance performance including video, speech, song and music.
Running time: 1h20
Tour :
Charleroi danse on 30 and 31 January 2025 (Charleroi)
Atelier210 from 14 to 22 February 2025 (Brussels)
Théâtre Varia from December 9 to 13, 2025 (Brussels)
I’ll be there for you (for me) explores Western self-culture and our need for collectivity. Confessing her ambiguity about the prevailing system (ca-pi-ta-lism), her desire to be part of it, her fears of leaving it and the despondency it provokes, Lorena Spindler invites performers to explore these contradictions. Drawn from a variety of (in)disciplines - contemporary dance, hip-hop, breakdance, sabar, theater (...) - the group offers a trans-disciplinary performance that is perfectionist-creative-cute-care-egotrip-communitarian.
Thanks to their regenerating presences, she shakes up the anxiety-inducing, isolating yet attractive fable of life based on self-realization. On the lookout for the system's recuperation of our struggles for ever greater power, she looks for possible dissidences in our complicit relationships, our invocations of joy, our practices of danced listening and our shared sweetnesses.
“If I'm there for you, will you be there for me?”
Distribution
· Concept, writing, direction : Lorena Spindler
· Writing collaboration and co-direction: Antonin Compère
· Performance : Brenda Boote Bidal, Mélissa Diarra, Naïm Belhaloumi, Jules Rozenwajn, Justine Theizen
· Lighting design and control : Lou van Egmond
· Sound creation : Gabriel Govea Ramos
· Video creation : Dimitri Petrovic
· Costume design and styling : Justine Struye in collaboration with Herd Knits, Méson, Maud Brunstein
· Set design : Micha Morasse
· Video and sound management : Arnaud Grenier
· Choreography : Antonin Compère, Brenda Boote Bidal, Juliette Mello, Lorena Spindler, Mélissa Diarra, Naïm Belhaloumi, Jules Rozenwajn, Justine Theizen
· Dramaturgy : Agathe/Yamina Meziani
· Occasional research dramaturgy : Adeline Rosenstein
· Acknowledgements : Alphonse Eklou Uwantege, Ama Brussels France Morin, le BAMP, le Bocal, Bostem Studio, Casimir Pesztat, Cyriel Lucas, Jonathan Da Silva, Diana David, Élodie Gérard, Iles Asbl, Juliette Mello, Lara Chanel, Léo Patissier, Lila Magnin, Louis Shungu, Mestizo Arts Platform/WIPCOOP, les Meutes, Ravie, Maximilien Westerlinck
Delegated production : atelier210 · Diffusion : AMA · Coproduction : atelier210, Charleroi danse, Théâtre Varia, La coop asbl. with the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Service de la danse. With the support of Taxshelter.be - ING & Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, les Meutes asbl, Garage 29.
AMA Brussels (France Morin).
Contact : france.morin@amabrussels.org