LIGHT SOLOS

Currently involved in a research period towards the creation of a group piece, Ula has been in residency in the Pianofabriek last fall and will be in residency at workspacebrussels in the new year. The two main areas of her research trajectory fall under the double heading - Performing Light, Performing Movement.

Starting from research began in the film and new media program Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains in 2010, which resulted in the short solo Atomic 5.1, Ula continues to explore how light can alter the perception of the body and of movement, becoming an active choreographic agent: In the two pieces presented here the choreography happens as much in the eye of the spectator as it does in the body of the performer.

Working with material commonly used during concerts and in nightclubs, the light sources not only produce the choreographic score but also the musical one: Sound artist Yann Leguay, who has been developing an approach to sound which blurs the hierarchy between the musical and scenic elements, works with amplification to make the lamps themselves audible. Working in concert with the body, the technique of the theatrical dispositive, becomes itself an instrument, if not an active performer.

Credits

Concept & Performance - Ula Sickle
Sound Concept & live performance - Yann Leguay
Light programmation - Ula Sickle

Atomic 5.1

Pure Data development: Jean-Marie Boyer
Choreographic assistance: Ramona Nagabczynska, Elisabeth Schilling & Artémise Ploegaerts
Dramaturgical assistance: Shila Anaraki

Residencies: Teatr Nowy (Warsaw), Workspacebrussels (Brussels)
With the support of Les Brigittines, Workspacebrussels & Teatr Nowy
Production: Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains

Solo 2

Technical assistance - Michael Janssens
Choreographic assistance - Élisa Yvelin
Dramaturgical assistance - Adva Zakai

Coproduction - workspacebrussels
Residency and support - Pianofabriek

the Light Solos are part of a larger research trajectory supported by the VGC & the Canada Council for the Arts.
the trajectory is supported by De Pianofabriek & workspacebrussels