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Ayelen Parolin / RUDA
CHOREOGRAPHY
Ayelen Parolin
MUSIC CREATION AND PIANO
Lea Petra
INTERPRETERS
Baptiste Cazaux, Jeanne Colin, Piet Defrancq, Naomi Gibson, Daan Jaartsveld, Kinga Jaczewska, Dan Mussett, Bianca Zueneli (on tour) and Daniel Barkan, Marc Iglésias
ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER
Julie Bougard
DRAMMATURGY
Olivier Hespel
LIGHTS IDEATION.
Laurence Halloy
TECHNICAL DIRECTION
Gaspar Schelck
COSTUMES
Wim Muyllaert
PRODUCTION AND ADMINISTRATION
Claire Geyer
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
Key Performance
A THANK YOU TO
Pierre C. Dauby
Choreographer and dancer Ayelen Parolin approaches to multiple universes and aesthetics, tending to to shed light on the complexity of the self and to probe what binds us to others. Born to Buenos Aires, where she studied, she lives and works to Brussels. In recent years she has been to methodically investigating human nature with rigorously precise, calculated and dogged movement writing to speak of the social and ritual in an abstraction taken to the limits of the body.
WEG is a transformative experience for eight dancers and a pianist, a deliberately plural, extravagant, prolific and tumultuous choreographic experiment to reveal the cracks, but also the resources, of human beings.
The movements of this "gentle choreographic trance" transport the audience into apparent chaos, in a process of self-organization inspired by the latest research of Pierre C. Dauby on dynamic systems.
Defined from Le Soir as a "formidable visual firework in which humor and elegance are wonderfully combined," the show unravels in the viewer's eyes as a kind of daydream, a kaleidoscopic polyphony that explores the notion of pleasure, of inner melody leading to movement.
"When I read Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, I began to fantasizing about creating a 'opera nurtured by intimate universes, about self-discovery. With WEG I wanted to work on the exuberant fantasies that inhabit this paradoxical, inconsistent, unstable and fragile sapiens," says Ayelen Parolin.
A rhythmic sound as if it were a heartbeat and Lea Petra's piano notes compose the soundtrack of this performance that represents an evolving eco-system, a dancing humanity and all its nuances.
production RUDA Asbl, Dc&J Création
Co-producers Charleroi Danse, Théâtre De Liège, Tanz Im August / Hau Hebbel Am Ufer, Atelier De Paris / Cdcn, Theater Freiburg (D)
Studios provided by Charleroi danse / La Raffinerie & Les Écuries, Studio Thor, Pianofabriek
with the support of Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre/Danse, the Tax Shelter of the Federal Government of Belgium, Inver Tax Shelter and the National Lottery
Ayelen Parolin has been an associate artist at Théâtre National Wallonie-Brussels (Belgium) since 2022
A choreographer and dancer, she lives and works to Brussels. Born in Argentina, she arrived in Europe in 2000 and trained to Montpellier. She then began a career as a performer that led to her to collaborate with Mathilde Monnier, Jean-Francois Peyret, Mossoux-Bonté, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Mauro Paccagnella and Louise Vanneste. In 2003, she began her choreographic work. From his autobiographical solo 25.06.76 to the group piece WEG (2019), he creates some 20 pieces, including DAVID (2011), Hérétiques (2014), Nativos (2016), Autoctonos (2017). Her body of work is marked from variety and contradictions, contributing to light on the complexity of the self. A choreographer who is difficult to label and unpredictable, she moves between different universes and aesthetics, constantly to attentive to exploring different parts of herself and to probing what binds us to our neighbors. She is regularly invited to collaborate with national companies and has created pieces for KNCDC - Korean National Contemporary Dance Company (2016), Ballet national de Marseille (2017), and Carte Blanche - Norwegian National Contemporary Dance Company (2019). The company received the SACD award in 2016 and the Prix de la Critique for Nativos in 2017. That same year, Ayelen became a member of the Pina Bausch Foundation, which awarded her a fellowship. From 2017 to 2020, she is artist-in-residence with Charleroi danse (Belgium). Ayelen was also a winner of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes (XXL program) in 2006. Her work has traversed throughout Europe, North and Latin America, Asia, and North Africa, and has been presented at Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Montpellier Danse, Actoral (Marseille), 100 dessus dessous festival (Paris), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Tanz im August (Berlin), Centquatre-Paris, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The company is supported by Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles to starting in 2022.
Alexander Vantournhout/not standing
Pina Bausch /
Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Blanca Li