Toujours de 3/4 face!

According to Johnny Cadillac, a former Belgian karateka, « 3/4 face » is The ultimate defensive position! The choreographer and performer Loraine Dambermont makes this principle her own and, through a live tutorial, reveals her best self-defense secret skills.

Toujours de 3⁄4 face! is a 20 minute hyper energetic solo performed as a survival guide with hints of humour. Loraine Dambermont also tackles the complex Belgian identity through mouvements all directed towards the paroxysm of self-mockery.

This performance challenges the physical and mental virtuosity of the performer by pushing the limits of a constrained body between a marathon of hyper fast movements, and the extreme precision of its own musicality.

Note to the audience: The performance contains voice over / english subtitles.

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Belgian artist Loraine Dambermont is a dancer and choreographer. After training at Codarts and Teaterschool - the Academies of Dance and the Arts in Rotterdam and Amsterdam - Loraine Dambermont has forged her own style. Through a blend of different techniques, from hip hop to contemporary dance, including popping and floor work, she creates an explosive energy.
In 2013, she won an award for Buy My City, a collaborative creation with Noora Hannula, a defining encounter in her career. As a performer, she has worked with The Nordic  Beasts and Mute Comp. Physical theater (Dk), Michè le Anne De Mey (Be), Itamar Serussi (Il), Beppie Blankert (Nl), Etienne Rochefort (Fr), Zahrbat / Brahim Bouchelaghem (Fr) and recently Leslie Mannes (Be).

In parallel with the extensive tour of her first solo TOUJOURS DE 3/4 FACE! (Aerowaves Spring Forward 2023 selection), she is working on her new creation T'FAÇON ON EST EN 2012, which will premiere in October 2025 at the Théâtre de Liège during the Charleroi danse Biennale.

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MEGASTRUCTURE

SARAH BALTZINGER and ISAIAH WILSON refuged themselves in an off-grid residency in ireland away from any distractions and people. in a cottage without internet connection and no outside influence, the two artists had time to fully immerse themselves in the creation of this sentimental duet.

MEGASTRUCTURE seeks to distance itself from the violent overexposure of the world and the alienation that comes with it to go back to something timeless. the isolation forced them to take a non filtered approach that helped them to radically take choices that they wouldn’t have made in an other, more busy, environment.

This duet is like a puzzle whose pieces are constantly being dismantled, searched for, tested and reinvented. MEGASTRUCTURE is a choreographic piece without sound composition, without decor, whose natural musicality is generated by the bodies on stage in a percussive energy.

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In 2022, Sarah Baltzinger and Isaiah Wil- son began co-directing several projects, including the duet MEGASTRUCTURE. InJune 2023, they won a number of awar- ds during the famous competition RIDCC (Rotterdam International Duet Choreo- graphic Competition). The two artists won the XL Production Award, which will lead them to create a production for Sca- pino Ballet Rotterdam in February 2025 called GOATS, with an international tour of 30 performances. In addition, they won four partner awards with Nederlands Dans Theater, Skånes Dansteater, Sally Dansgezelschap Masstricht, MAAS Thea- ter En Dans. They will work with Neder- lands Dans Theater through workshops,laboratories and first projects of creation from 2024 onwards. The same year, they became Aerowaves Twenty24 artists with MEGASTRUCTURE and will perform at Spring Forward Festival.

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