Armand van den Hamer: Les corps magnétiques

2009 - 2012

Company Mossoux-BontéFour men and four women are moving along a frontier: a demarcation line — the edge of a ditch or the start of a race. Couples form, groups and lone individuals, without ever breaking the line…raising the question of the impossible yet necessary community.

With Bernard Eylenbosch, Odile Gheysens, Sébastien Jacobs, Yvain Juillard, Leslie Mannès, Frauke Mariën, Maxence Rey, Armand van den Hamer
Concept: Patrick Bonté
Direction and choreography: Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté

Premiered at Le Manège (Mons, Belgium) 24 - 27 November 2009.
Touring: Brussels (ThéâtreVaria, Les Brigittines, Les Halles de Schaerbeek) Lille, Paris, Erlangen, Neurenberg, Le Mans, Cracow...

Armand van den Hamer

Nagasaki based choreographer, dancer and teacher specialised in contemporary dance techniques, improvisation and the making of conceptual performances with a theatrical accent. Graduated in 2000 from the European Dance Development Centre in Arnhem. Researcher at hart, with the body as a dominant medium, he likes to investigate the undercurrents of the human being, consequently integrating bodywork with the psychological and philosophical realms. He has been commissioned to create work in the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Japan. He collaborated as a performer in several multi-disciplinary improvisation projects and worked as a dancer with a. o. David Zambrano, Salva Sanchis, Maria Clara Villa Lobos and company Mossoux-Bonté. Some of his own works : Requiem for a Cosmonaut 2014; Tsuki wa doko e itta 2010; Gently reframed 2009 ; Loco Motion 2004 ; Ik wist niet dat u bestond 2004; On Common Ground series I – IV 1999-2003 ; Contemporary Rituals 2000

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