Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit

Coproduction 2025
© Matias Rocha Moura
© Matias Rocha Moura

Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit is a performance that draws from individual and collective narratives to create an experience through sonic, visual, spatial, and dance elements.

Stanley Ollivier’s new work takes as its starting point the community-building power of POC (People of Colour) belonging spaces to reformulate familiar choreographic approaches. Together with performers Lily Brieu Nguyen and Mamadou Wagué, they explore everyday reality and social change through a danced language that reflects the interrelations between intimacy, the body, and the creation of a guarded, safe space.

Concept & artistic direction: Stanley Ollivier - Choreography & performance: Lily Brieu Nguyen, Mamadou Wagué, Stanley Ollivier - Dramaturgy: Audrey Merilus - In conversation with: Marie Umuhoza, Benjamin Mengistu Navet - Music & sound design: Villads Klint - Vocal coach: Laryssa Kim - Scenography: Lou Cocody-Valentino - Costume design: Godwin Agossah - Lighting design & technical management: Ivan Cascon - Production: Hiros - Co-production: Kaaitheater, Arsenic, workspacebrussels, HAUT Scene, La Bellone, BUDA, KAAP, Viernulvier - Residency Support: Accueil Studio- La Briqueterie du Val-de-Marne, TanzHaus Zürich, Gouvernement, Le Bamp, HAUT Scene, workspacebrussels, Kunstenwerkplaats, STUK, BUDA, La Bellone, Kaaitheater

Residencies

27.01.2025 - 31.01.2025

Les Brigittines

22.04.2024 - 05.05.2024

HAUT (Copenhagen)

31.10.2023 - 09.11.2023

Kaaistudio's

22.05.2023 - 25.05.2023

Kaaistudio's

Past events

Spine of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit

2.07.2023 15:00 - 15:45

Dansbad (Ostend)


AN HOUR WITH

25.04.2024 10:00 - 11:00

HAUT (Copenhagen)