Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

For two years, P.A.R.T.S dancer Steven Michel and young hobby break-dancer Viktor Caudron danced this big little duet in many different countries, theatres and at well-known festivals. When they first began rehearsing in 2013 at the Kunsten Centrum Campo in Ghent, Viktor was still 12-years old and utterly a child, by nature of course fully subordinate to Steven’s well-trained dancer body. Meanwhile, Viktor is almost 15 and nearly as tall as his professional dance partner; their gazes not only meet at eye level, but also with the same determination and self-assurance. When Steven lifts Viktor, the burden is distinctly tangible. And so, although the extraordinary scenic-dance encounter between the two has gained many new, exciting aspects due to Viktor’s puberty, Viktor and Steven have decided together with the creators of this phenomenal, complex piece – choreographer Jan Martens and director Peter Seynaeve – to bring “Victor” to an end. Whereupon Mousonturm spontaneously invited them to Frankfurt for two final performances. A farewell from a piece that always also dealt with farewells: saying farewell to childhood, to the opportunity for unconditional intimacy and safety, to instinctive life. And which simultaneously ventured a deeper look at the nature of society and humankind, posed existential questions on the mechanisms of power and the abuse of confidence: intimacy is a paradox, life is a flexing of muscles. “We show”, so Jan Martens, “a form of intimacy that for most people is not very natural, because of our rational culture. An almost animalistic physical experience.” Don’t miss it!

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By Jan Martens, Peter Seynaeve * With Viktor Caudron, Steven Michel * Music: Gospodi.