nomadic research cells

Since 2021, we develop a research programme that allows itself to follow its own rhythm and path, indirectly feeding into the creations in progress. This research has two main aims.
Firstly, the so-called Intimate Cells, to revisit the working processes within the company: renewing our forms and ways of doing things, questioning certain creative habits that have become entrenched in our practice over the years, exploring new avenues.
Secondly, to invite other researchers, artists and experts from other fields of research to exchange practices and knowledge, and above all to share questions. With the intuition that every encounter is a translation: to ask the same question together is to hear, each one, a different question. By experts, we mean all the people who are engaged in a practice or in research and who have the concern or desire to share something of it.
In contrast to the divisive use of the term, which makes expertise something that distinguishes or separates, we want to give back to the word its dimension of sharing and horizontality. Expert comes from the Latin experiri: to try, to attempt, to put to the test, to experiment. An expert is someone who has tried an experiment and can tell others about it.
These nomadic cells are coordinated by dramaturg Arnaud Timmermans. As their name suggests, they are intended to take place in different places and contexts, depending on the meetings and partners involved. They are intended to be resolutely opened and non-linear, adapting to the different contexts in which they will take place, both in terms of their protocol and the public performances that may result.

concept
Florencia Demestri + Samuel Lefeuvre

in collaboration with
Arnaud Timmermans

production
LOG asbl

Choreographic research workshops with children, around the ideas of de-hierarchizing the body, an imaginary dance including non-humans, and the hybridization of choreographic motifs. Initiated within Charleroi Danse in 2022, they are intended to be repeated.

Call on outside contributors to bring their respective practices (singing, poetry, visual art) into resonance with the issues central to the company’s artistic work, with the idea of creating a space for experimentation where the contributors’ imaginations, tools and interests would rub up against our body of ideas.
This cell can also be opened to a group of 10 external participants.

Collective feedback sessions between choreographers on the dramaturgical and formal challenges of past creations, to share experience, questions, doubts and new ideas over several days.

How can we combine our research with that of doctoral students in the natural, environmental and social sciences? How can questioning the choreographic translation of a life form open up new perspectives for scientific research?

A research workshop to combine practice and theory, with a discussion in the presence of a well-known author, accompanied by a public lecture open to all.

cell # 12 – shared perspective
with Anna Czapski, Louise Vanneste + Emmanuelle Nizou (Pangée) and Léa Tarral
June 3 to 6, 2024 @ La Bellone – Brussels

cell # 11 – bodies as materials, uncertain landscapes
with Laetitia Bica, Manah Depauw, Mathilde Maillard and Gaël Santisteva, with the participation of Martina Calvo, Lorenzo de Angelis, Micaël Florentz, Roy Hankach, Ikue Nakagawa and Angela Rabaglio.
January 28 to 31, 2024 @ Grand Studio – Brussels

cell # 10 – choreographing (with) trouble
with students in the 2nd year of the Master Dance and Choreographic Practices at INSAS + La Cambre + Charleroi Danse
February 5 to 9, 2024@ INSAS-Féron – Brussels

cell # 9 – childhood
led by Colline Etienne, Ikue Nakagawa and Natacha Nicora with 1st Primary students from Ecole La Chouette (school 5) in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
January 22 to 26, 2024 @ La Raffinerie/Charleroi Danse – Brussels

cell # 8 – childhood
with 1st Primary students from Ecole La Chouette (school 5) in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
October 16 to 20, 2023 @ La Raffinerie/Charleroi Danse – Brussels

cell # 7 – childhood
with 1st Primary students from Ecole La Chouette (school 5) in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
March 6 to 9, 2023 @ La Raffinerie/Charleroi Danse – Brussels

cell # 6 – choreographing (with) trouble
with students in the 2nd year of the Master Danse et Pratiques Chorégraphiques at INSAS + La Cambre + Charleroi Danse
February 28 to March 03, 2023 @ La Bodega – Brussels

cell # 5 – childhood
with the KIDS of La Raffinerie
November 16+23+30, 2022 @ La Raffinerie/Charleroi Danse – Brussels

cell # 4 – choreographing (with) trouble
with dancers from the Extensions training program at La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie
February 21-25, 2022 @ La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie – Toulouse (FR)

cell # 3 – Horizontality of knowledge / Cellule Intime
November 22-26, 2021 @ Le Bocal – Brussels

cell # 2 – landscape-bodies / Cellule Intime
July 12 to 16, 2021 @ Fabrique des Possibles – Noailles (FR)

cell # 1 – choreographing (with) trouble / Cellule Intime
January 25-29, 2021 @ Les Brigittines – Brussels (BE)