March

Coproduction 2019

For her project March Nathalie Rozanes is interested in questions such as: What happened so that you and I are together in this precise moment in this space in front of this audience?

© Beatriz Klewais
© Beatriz Klewais

What are you feeling? What echoes? What travels through our bodies? What is a conversation? On what other levels can we communicate? How can we share spaces? How can we look to the future together? Where can we find humor? Or what are other ways to survive?

‘When I first invited the dancer Elizabeth Ward to work on what would become this piece, I did not know what it was going to be ‘about’ or what form it would have. What I did know, was that we were in March 2017 and that an unfathomable year had preceded on a national, international and personal level. In November 2017 electronic musician Frédéric Altstadt joined us. There are all sorts of things I could say here about political and personal discomfort I have felt in the year that followed, as an actress, as a woman, as a Jew, as a human, but I’m trying to keep this short. What I can say, is that it felt as though I perhaps have finally and fully entered adulthood.’

March: The Book

March brings together poems and performance texts by Nathalie Rozanes, as well as conversations with Elizabeth Ward and Tarek Halaby.

'Maybe I have never made a performance that was not about identification and its complexity. About positioning oneself. Maybe I have never made a piece that is not about how one thing leads to another. Maybe I have never made a piece that is not about process. (...)'

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Idea & concept: Nathalie Rozanes — Performance & creation: Elizabeth Ward, Nathalie Rozanes, Frederic Altstadt — Text: Nathalie Rozanes, Elizabeth Ward — Text editing: Nathalie Rozanes — Sound: Frederic Altstadt — Choreography: Elizabeth Ward – Space: Simon Siegmann – Dramaturgy: Jellichje Reijnders — Production: workspacebrussels - Residency support: CAMPO & workspacebrussels — With support from: the Flemish Community Commission (VGC) — Thanks to: WIPCOOP / Mestizo Arts, Elsa Lévy, Lucie Guien, Jean-Noël Boissé, Tunde Adefioye, Sofie Kokaj, Julie Calbert, Pol Heyvaert, Anne Meeussen, Hedwig Snoeckx from Zephyr Wildlife, Marnix Rummens

Residencies

09.03.2020 - 13.03.2020
Rosas
12.11.2019 - 22.11.2019
Rosas & workspacebrussels
07.10.2019 - 11.10.2019
Rosas
16.09.2019 - 29.09.2019
Kaaitheater
15.10.2018 - 25.10.2018
Kaaitheater