PROJECT

Melting Pot

! CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA-VIRUS !

Melting Pot is an over evolving dance practice which works as a meeting place for dance challenge and exchange. Dancers form different styles and cultural backgrounds can enter in dialogue and liberate different sort of feelings and emotions, such as joy, anger, sensuality and social frustration.

Between performance and a recreative space, Melting Pot combines different performance procedures: the frontal contemplation of the dance show with the Cypher, the Happening with the Participatory dance and the pedagogical research. The cast of the participants consists in a mix group of professional, non-professional, academic and autodidactic dancers, from Contemporary to Hip-Hop Freestyle and Voguing. The work is accompanied by a DJ set which has the function to facilitate the exchange, potentially creating sensation of familiarity, connecting different cultures and music styles.

The presentation on Day of the Dance, Saturday 25 April at 7 PM, is a collaboration between wpZimmer, KunstZ and 1st Bachelor Dance of the Conservatory Antwerp. The performance will be followed by an open door jam session. Get your most comfortable and glamorous clothes to join the dance!

Trailer Melting Pot – Marco Torrice

PROGRAM @ wpZimmer during Day of the Dance (CANCELLED)

19:00 – 20:00 Doors & bar open >> 20:00 – 21:00 Performance Jam >> 21:00 – 00:00 PARTYYYY with DJ Pedrolito Radioglobal

TICKETS

€5 – please reserve your tickets in advance via THIS LINK.

Marco Torrice

https://www.marcotorrice.com

Marco Torrice is a performing artist, teacher and choreographer, based in Brussels. His work focuses on the facilitation of dance exchange between dancers from different dance styles and cultural back-ground, and on the redefinition of the concept of ‘contemporary dance’ by opening a dialogue with different dance performance practices then the one usually present in western academic environments. His fascination for autodidact dance artists and for movement languages which carry different histories and contents than the one of the western dominant culture, such as Voguing, Krump and Hip-Hop Freestyle led him into an approach to choreography which combines different performance procedures: the frontal contemplation of the dance show with the Cypher, the Happening with the Participatory dance, etc. Often the actual dance forms present in his works rise as a result of an experience of dance sharing where each artist ‘takes’ from the other. Born and raised in Rome (IT), he studied philosophy at La Sapienza University of Rome. In 2006 he moved to Brussels to study at P.A.R.T.S. where he graduated in 2010. He worked for different choreographers such as Thomas Hauert, Jerome Bell, for the Hungarian dancecompany Hodworks, and for the Belgian dance companies Mossoux- Bontè, and Rosas. He created different dance shows such as Me, Myself and I, Kitty 2012 (2011), The way my father imagined it all, Centipedes (2012), Decameron (2013). Besides his work as a dancer and choreographer, Marco also teaches and gives workshops in different dance schools such as the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance), Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Isadora Duncan Center (Prague), Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen and at Da.Re. Dance Research (Rome).

Credits

Concept: Marco Torrice◊Dancers: Caupenne Jhayar Junior, Ivona Medić Nicolić, Jerneja Fekonja, Joachim Noël, Lucas Katangila. Together with students of Conservatory Antwerp and KunstZ.◊DJ: Pedrolito Radioglobal◊Light design: Jorge Guevara Larrotta◊Clothes Adviser: Ndiaga Diaw