WE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DANCE

“We do not know how to dance, but we will really try it”.

WE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DANCE was premiered in May 2018 at Het Entrepot in Brugge (BE), as part of the Double Bill Night. It was also programmed to be performed later on, the same month at Eskimofabrik in Ghent (BE). The Portuguese’s version was premiered at Setubal’s International Theater Festival, in Portugal the same year.

It is a Pollock canvas. It is an attempt to open spaces between limits. It is about two bodies that move following one heart beat in a previously chosen time. It is an attempt to live and find the multiple answers to concrete questions. It is an attempt to look at life again, to understand it and understand each other. It is about getting back to when we were free and anything was possible. It is about here and now. It is about all of us. It is about the space in between: We do not know how to dance and This could all be dance if we try.

‘We don’t know how to dance’ is an investigation into the limits of dance as it is defined in a contemporary and theatrical context. The piece is the culmination of a year-long research project, followed by a workshop (of approximately two to four weeks), in which ten untrained dancers are exposed to the material created during the research and they are asked to find their freedom within the existent structure. Challenging their perception and the public’s, regarding what dance can become and opening the concept of dance itself and reshaping the role of the dancer.

YELLOW COLLECTIVE PRODUCTION.

IN COLLABORATION WITH: Het Entrepot, KASK and Setubal’s International Theater Festival.

WITH THE SUPPORT OF: Les Ballets C de la B & Danspunt.

CONCEIVED & DEVISED BY: Eva March & Tim Taveirne.

DIRECTED BY: Eva March.

CAST: Eva March plus 9 volunteers.

From Ghent (Jos Deraedt, Ellen Maes, Laura Orueta, Griet Verbrugge, Martina Decuyper, Anna Puschel, Catherine Van Assche, Klaas De Baere, Gerry Peeters).

From Sétubal (Joana Brás Pinto, Micaela Castanheira, Ana Guerreiro, Beatriz Guerreiro, Luana Ilídia, Carla Monteiro, Ana Silva, Daniela Soares, Alexandra Sofia, Carla Monteiro, Carlos Rocha)

DESIGN: Tim Taveirne and Eva March.

LIGHT: Jan Van Hove.

Special thanks to Les Ballets de C de la B.

YELLOW COLLECTIVE

Originally founded in 2015 in Madrid (Spain), Yellow Collective is an experimental live-arts and theatre-dance company which create unique and intimate pieces that challenge and provoke today’s audience’s beliefs and values. The aim is to strip away superficial theatricalities to emphasise the relationship between the performer and the audience members. Having an active collaboration with the community as the central axis of their work in latest years.

The company was created thanks to the support of PKMÑ, which provided a work space for us to develop an explorative investigation which became a multidisciplinary 60-minute piece. This piece, THE LIGHTS, was premiered at the same venue in January 2016. After a successful first run, the production was selected to be part of “Imparables” (experimental theatre festival for new artists in Spain).Afterwards, the company moved to London to develop P.A.T.S.  in collaboration with Swedish director Johan Bark, which was premiered in London at The Lighthouse Sharing on 2017. Later on, the show toured around Europe at festivals such as Dreams Before Dawn in Paris, Teatro do Festa in Lisbon, Camden Fringe in London and Birmingham Fest in Birmingham. In 2018, Eva moved to Belgium and developed ‘We do not know how to dance’ with the support of Het Entrepot and KASK, in collaboration with Les Ballets C de la B and Danspunt. WE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DANCE premiered in May 2018 at Het Entrepot in Brugge (BE), as part of the Double Bill Night. It was also programmed to be performed later on, the same month at Eskimofabrik in Ghent (BE). The Portuguese’s version was premiered at Setubal’s International Theater Festival, in Portugal the same year.

The company is currently in Spain developing their new piece.