In Shapeless, Charlotte Vanden Eynde continues the movement research she initiated in I’m Sorry It’s (Not) A Story (2009). In latter, the focus was on meaning. Now she returns to form. Point of departure are the purely physical, formal an dynamic aspects of movement. The dynamic, something that was not very present in her earlier work, gets a lot of her attention. Also, she enters in a dialogue with the movement vocabulary that constituted her body as a dancer: until now something she tried to shake off or rather ignored. She feels out the limits of abstraction, without excluding emotion.
Music and (self-recorded) sound play an important role. Also the light gets more than a supportive function. Charlotte leaves the visuality and stillness a bit behind. The body remains her starting point, but she consciously looks for a kind of ‘shapelessness’, for the chaotic and intangible, for a ‘form that is no form’.
© Maya Wilsens 
© Maya Wilsens 
© Maya Wilsens 
© Constance Neuenschwander
EXTRA INFO
Project year: 2011
Project type: Dance performance
Duration: 50min.
CREDITS
Choreography, dance, music and sound mix: Charlotte Vanden Eynde
Coaching: Nada Gambier
Light design and technical assistance: Bart Vermeulen, Elke Verachtert
Costumes: Juliette Boger
Music exerpts: Einstürzende Neubauten (Das Schaben, Stahlversion, Der Leere Raum, Yü-Gung in an Adrian Sherwood mix, Silence is Sexy, The Garden), Hans Appelqvist (Jag En Gok), John Zorn (Archery), Brigitte Fontaine (Premier Juillet), Nicolas Collins (Tromba Marina A Cora), Shock Exchange (Just A Dream)
Production: wpZimmer
Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts
With the support of: Buda (Kortrijk, Vooruit (Gent), STUK (Leuven), en de Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Special thanks to: Marc Vanrunxt, Maya Wilsens, Etienne Guilloteau and Willem Vanden Eynde
PROJECT DATES
23/03/2016, STUK, Leuven (BE)
24/03/2016, STUK, Leuven (BE)
21/03/2016, Kaaistudio’s, Brussels (BE)
22/01/2016, Kaaistudio’s, Brussels (BE)
22/03/2014, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES)
23/03/2014, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES)
09/05/2013, Stary Browar, Poznan (PL)
14/01/2012, wpZimmer/OpenHouse, Antwerp (BE)
13/10/2011, CAMPO, Ghent (BE)
14/10/2011, CAMPO, Ghent (BE)
26/10/2011, Monty, Antwerp (BE)
27/10/2011, STUK, Leuven (BE)
29/10/2011, Monty, Antwerp (BE)
18/05/2011, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (BE)
19/05/2011, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (BE)
20/05/2011, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (BE)
21/05/2011, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (BE)