Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits

URGENT: Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits takes place today, sunday august 25 in Lichthof Bottrop instead of Halde Haniel.

The Performance of Levée des conflits today, sunday august 25 takes place at Lichthof des Berufskollegs der Stadt Bottrop instead of Halde Haniel. Due to heavy rain last night the security for audience and artists can not be guaranteed on Halde Haniel.

There are Shuttlebusses from the parking space at Bergwerks Prosper Haniel (Fernewaldstraße, Navi: Birkhahnweg, Bottrop) to Lichthof and back. Please pay attention that there is very limited parking space around Lichthof and use the shuttle service from Bergwerk Prosper Haniel.

Adress of the new venue: Lichthof des Berufskolleg der Stadt Bottrop, An der Berufsschule 20, 46236 Bottrop

The busshuttle from Essen mainstation and Jahrhunderthalle Bochum takes place as planned.

The French dancer, choreographer, and curator Boris Charmatz subverts expectations and formal laws, breaking with routines and expanding the space of choreography, as can be seen in his masterpiece enfant. Depending on whether he works in a theater, a museum, a soccer field, or, as he does here, at the pinnacle of a HaldeHaniel, each new place, each shift of perspective inscribes new meanings into the performance. In this way, Levée des conflits (The Lifting of Conflicts)—oscillates between sculpture, installation, dance, and contrat social.

Levée des conflits is the performance of a fascinating paradox: strictly organized like a canon and yet as chaotic as a twisted knot. A solo performance becomes a labyrinthine image of movement, a stereotypical gesture grows into a powerful vortex. The dancers spell out one after the other a dense vocabulary of cultural and historically charged gestures, developing, imitating, repeating a movement that is then absorbed by the next, until all come together in an overwhelming, furious composition. This choreography is always about the individual voice and the chorus at the same time, an immanent uprising and immediate paralysis, structure and the void, thesis and antithesis, crisis and utopia. All too complex? No, simply fantastic.