Claire Croizé’s first solo creation, Blowing up (2002) was a high point of Monty’s 2002 Junge Hunde Festival in Antwerp (Belgium). Croizé is fascinated by the beauty that can come from the vulnerability of the human body. In this creation, she works with contrasts and oppositions, exploring the theme of man torn between triviality and beauty, between violence and the wish to create a better world. Croizé tries to express this duality of human life in her dance: to stay standing in spite of the force of gravity pulling you to the ground; deliberately provoking an imbalance to find a new equilibrium. She does not strive to create beautiful movements, but rather to find beauty in the absence of artistic perfection, technical precision and self control. The emotion must come from the contrast between the fragility and the strength of the human body – this body that has the simple purpose to breath and find freedom, but that is confronted by the continuous struggle against the force of gravity.
EXTRA INFO
Project year: 2002
Project type: Dance
Duration: 30min.
CREDITS
Creation and dance: Claire Croizé
Music: Vivaldi, Four Seasons /Fennesz, Summer/ Sonic Youth + James Tenney, Good Bye 2Oth Century
Artistic advice: Jan Ritsema and Bojana Cvejic
Production: PACT Zollverein Essen
Co-production: The European community in the frame of DEPARTS
PROJECT DATES
24/09/2005, CC Hasselt, Hasselt (DE)
10/06/2005, De Spil, Roeselare (BE)
04/05/2005, Dashanzi International Art Festival, Beijing (CN)
16/10/2004, CC Kortrijk/Solo soli festival, Kortrijk (BE)
23/03/2004, Westrand, Dilbeek (BE)
22/02/2004, Mousontrum, Frankfurt (DE)
20/12/2003, La Villette, Paris (FR)
21/12/2003, La Villette, Paris (FR)
29/05/2003, Off Limits Festival, Dortmund (DE)
01/03/2003, wpZimmer, Antwerp (BE)
14/02/2003, Aerowaves, London (UK)
28/02/2003, wpZimmer, Antwerp (BE)
07/11/2002, Monty/Rammatutti, Antwerp (BE)
02/10/2002, STUK/KLAPSTUK, Leuven (BE)
03/10/2002, STUK/KLAPSTUK, Leuven (BE)
18/08/2002, Kanuti Gildi Sael, Augusti Tantsu Festival, Tallinn (EE)
25/08/2002, Bunker, Mladli Levi Festival, Ljubljana (SI)
29/08/2002, Yorkshire Dance, Leeds (UK)
18/05/2002, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)
18/03/2002, Centre Chorégraphique National (try-out), Le Havre (FR)