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FICTION IN ACTION (working title)
Last year Nada Gambier conducted extensive research around a.o. the use of movement, props and food in live performance. Inspired by the findings from her research cycle 1 (in which she developed strategies for workig with movement) she will be launching a new creation called Fiction in action (work.title) that will premiere mid- November 2012 in DeSingel in Antwerp. Work in progress showings will take place mid- June 2012 in the Working Title Platform in Brussels and in September 2012 during TAKT in Neerpelt.

THE FAREWELL
On December 10, Claire Croizé performs The Farewell in Ter Vesten in Beveren. In the spring of 2011, Claire will collaborate with the ensemble Oxalys and present a version with live music in Hasselt on April 11th in Cultuurcentrum Hasselt and Kortrijk the May 10th in Kortrijkse Schouwburg for Festival van Vlaanderen Kortrijk.

TRES SCRIPTURAE
Next performances of Tres Scripturae (choreography Etienne Guilloteau ) will take place on February 1 in Leuven (Kunstencentrum STUK) on February 19 in Amsterdam (Brakke Grond - Frascati, Something Raw) and on April 5th in Maasmechelen (Cc Massmechelen)

Action Scénique

They are from France/Finland and got to know each other at P.A.R.T.S., the dance school of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. As many young choreographers tend to do, they remained in Brussels after their education. Apart from their participation in national and international projects by other artists, all three of them immediately started to develop their own work in wp Zimmer, a workplace for dance in Antwerp. The artistic ties among them got stronger: they became each other’s dramaturg, light designer, artistic advisor and partner in crime. A shared artistic stance, a shared way of developing material, shared thoughts on dance and performance unavoidably led to the creation of their own company: Action Scénique.

Azione Scenica, a term from the world of opera, was used for the first time by Luigi Lamberti in the 18th century. With this term he expressed a rupture with the traditional opera of that time: away from the narrative and illusional drama and back to the here and now of the stage.

They are Claire Croizé, Nada Gambier and Etienne Guilloteau. They take their creed seriously: they act on the stage, in the here and the now, for the spectator. No narrative, overdeveloped, aesthetic end product to be easily consumed. They pick their means (be it theatre, dance, light, music or photography) and share their research that hovers between theatricality and physicality, between reality and fiction. The spectator is invited to search along with them. And to find.

During the season 2010-2011 Action Scenique presents
Vor deinem Thron (Claire Croizé)
The Farewell (Claire Croizé)
Tres Scripturae (Etienne Guilloteau)

Artistic relatives of Action Scénique are Jonathan Burrows, Ugo Dehaes, Jean-Luc Ducourt, Vincent Dunoyer, Matteo Fargion, Alain Franco, Edit Kalor, Jan Maertens, Hans Meijer, Marc Vanrunxt, Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kris Verdonck.

Action Scénique is supported by wp Zimmer (Antwerp), Monty (Antwerp), Workspace Brussels, Vooruit (Ghent), Buda (Kortrijk),PIANOFABRIEK (Brussel), Theatre in Motion (Beijing), PACT Zollverein (Essen) and Transforma (Lisbon).