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Dance art of the Flemisch choreographer Erwin Wauters

02/07/2008

Sessions of Awkwardness

2004 brought about the creation of Sessions of Awarkwardness, a travelling production inside a large white cube. The space allows audience, artists and crew to experience the true meaning of the piece in an intimate environment.

Sessions of Awkwardness deals with familiar everyday situations that evoke a definite feeling of unease and inevitable awkwardness; moments where one comes into contact with another person, yet are unable to communicate and relate.

The concept of Sessions of Awkwardness is based on Hippocrates' philosophy relating to the formation of one's personality through the inner balance of the "four humours," namely Blood, Black Bile, Yellow Bile and Phlegm (Sanguine, Choleric, Melanchos and Phlegma). Hippocrates believed that the combination of these "life juices" within each of us makes us unique.
Imagine the fireworks that arise when four artists, each representing just one of these "life juices," are placed in a small confined space; no choice but to interact, forcing each juice of life to its limit...

concept and choreography Erwin Wauters performance Ali Wauters, Annelien Goetschalckx, Lies Mahy, Sophie Tack soundengineering Cortechxvalley setting design Manus imaging Jan Nauwelaerts co-producer Icaros

Excerpts of Sessions of Awkwardness (4 in a playlist)
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About the choreographer - Erwin Wauters

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Antwerpen, Belgium
Choreograph, composer of electronic music, dance performer and teacher. Born in 1976 in Sint-Niklaas (Flanders – Belgium). Started his education as a dancer at the Royal Ballet Academy in Antwerp, of which he graduated in 1994. He took a radical twist by enrolling in the contemporary dance department of the Higher Dance Institute Lier, where he graduated both as performing dancer as dance teacher. He danced, after his education, for several years with Dansgroep Meekers – Rotterdam (NL). Worked with Vesna Etcha Dvôrnick, Eric Raeves, Catherine Massin, Thierry Smits, Andre Gingras, the Hans Hof Ensemble, Barbara Mavro Thalassitis, Kyung-A Ryu and many others. In 1998 his first full night work '@-.' (at - dot) was staged, followed by ‘6.4.U.2?’, ‘One Track Mind’ en ‘Sangre Hirviendo’. In 2004 the work ‘Sessions of Awkwardness’ was successfully received as the first work of his project based dance company wE kataRakt, followed by ‘Infraspectre’, ‘Vlees verkoopt’ and the co-creation of 'Pavane/Objekt II'. Erwin Wauters was the founder of DWH / Danswerkhuys as well as artistic coordinator of the MAYDaY! Dance Festival in CCBe and Monty (Antwerp) and the connected dArK RoOm residency.

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