Sophie Guisset
wpZimmer resident in 2021
Sophie Guisset (1987, Tournai, BE) is a performer and performance maker. After completing her education in acting at the Royal Conservatory of Mons (BE) in 2011, she took part in the Dance Intensive Program at Tanzfabrik Berlin in 2013. She has been collaborating with a.o. Olga Tsvetkova, Fanny Brouyaux, Consolate Sipérius, Enis Turan, Natasza Gerlach and Phillip Urrutia.
Her creations have been shown in Sophiensaele (DE), Bâtard festival (BE), Latitudes Contemporaines (FR), Théâtre de la Balsamine (BE), Beursschouwburg (BE), Santarcangelo festival (IT), Théâtre du Grutli (CH), Tanzfabrik Berlin (DE),ao.
Her artistic practice focuses on the notions of intimacy, pleasure and playfulness. In her performances, she engages with spaces that allow protagonists, or players, to find a certain freedom and safety in order to explore private spheres. She is interested in how queer spaces are imagined, politically conceived and socially organised, from a feminist point of view. In the projects she develops, she aims at exploring the social and sexual dynamics at play in these spaces.
She is also working as a collaborator and dramaturgical advisor for Lisa Vereertbrugghen, Alice Guiliani, Camilla Strandhagen and Zuzanna Sosnowska, ao.
projects
Vanilla
Vanilla explores the relationship of pleasure, sexual desire and food to question normativity in sexual practices. Through the intimate and vulnerable sharing of personal and fictional sex stories, the performance offers a warm and soft exercise of imagination. On stage, the careful preparation and the consumption of sauces is used to highlight the care that is at stake in safe and sound sexual encounters, however radical they might be. Vanilla gently invites the audience to open their sexual fantasy box and to put together their own recipe.
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EXTRA INFO
Project year: 2022
Project type: Performance
Language: English
Age: 18+
CREDITS
Concept & performer: Sophie Guisset
Performer: Enis Turan
Performer & podium design: Cee Füllemann
Dramaturgy & artistic advisor: Lisa Vereertbrugghen
Light design: Emilio Cordero Checa
Sound design: Emilio Cordero Checa
Text advisor: Melanie Jame Wolf
Artistic Advisor: Fanny Brouyaux
Producer: Lara Joy Bues
With the support of: the Berliner Senate Department for Culture and Europe (DE), Vlaamse Overheid (BE)
Co-productie: WpZimmer (BE), Kunstencentrum Viernulvier (BE)
Photo credit: Mayra Wallraff
Supported by: Charleroi Danse (Residency contribution), Buda Kortrijk (BE), Kampnagel Hamburg
Research supported by: Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR
Special thanks to: Helga Baert, Matthieu Goeury, Marieke De Munck, Uta Lambertz
PROJECT DATES
11/05/2023, wpZimmer, Antwerp (BE)
12/05/2023, wpZimmer, Antwerp (BE)
21/06/2023, Sophiensaele (premiere), Berlin (DE)
22/06/2023, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
23/06/2023, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
24/06/2023, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
25/06/2023, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
25/01/2024, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
26/01/2024, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
24/10/2024, Viernulvier, Ghent (BE)
25/10/2024, Viernulvier, Ghent (BE)
With the support of the Flemish Government
