Ondine Cloez

wpZimmer resident in 2018

Ondine Cloez first studied classical dance at the Conservatoire National de Région de Grenoble. In 1998, she moved to Brussels and study at PARTS for three years. In 2002, she trained at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, as part of their Ex.e.r.ce programme. Since then, she danced with Mathilde Monnier, Laurent Pichaud, Linda Samaraweerova, Marcos Simoes, Sara Manente, Jaime Llopis, Randy Carreno, Laure Bonicel, Rémy Héritier, Antoine Defoort and Halory Goerger, Grand Magasin, Rudi Van der Merwe, Jocelyn Cottencin, Ayelen Parolin, Loïc Touzé. In 2009, she co-directed with Sara Manente and Michiel Reynaerts a video called Some Performances and Grand Tourists, a site-specific project. Vacances Vacance is her first choreographical piece.

http://www.entropieproduction.be/-Ondine-Cloez-.html?lang=fr

projects

Vacances Vacance

Vacances Vacance is a solo, a monologue, a dance. The starting point of Ondine Cloez’ performance is the desire to recreate in a studio setting the feeling she experiences during a holiday: a feeling of peace and gratification. With a little exaggeration, one might call it a state of grace. Her first attempts failed of course: ‘working on the concept of holiday’ is a contradiction in itself. But along the way, Cloez came across some dance movements that brought her closer to emptiness, silence, death and grace. And just like that, by a detour, she ended where she had started.

première

25/01/2018 – Vivat La Danse!? (Armentières)

credits

Creation & performance: Ondine Cloez
Light design: Vic Grevendonk
Dramaturgy & text advice: Marine Bestel
Outside eye: Sara Manente, Sabine Macher
Production: Entropie Production
Co-production: CDC Ateliers de Paris (Vincennes), CCN Orléans, Le Vivat / Scène conventionnée d’Armentières, Musée de la Danse (CCN de Rennes), Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk), Charleroi Danse, La Bellone / Maison du Spectacle (Brussel), wpZimmer (Antwerp)
Supported by Gymnase – CDC Roubaix