IN SHORT ⟶ A solo performance that spans twenty years of artistic collaboration between performer Manon Santkin and Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen. The body on stage manifests itself in all its archival chameleon-like dimensions, generating infinite transformations between the monstrous, the erotic, the affective and the political.
RUSH is a solo performance created and written for performer Manon Santkin. It draws inspiration from twenty years of collaboration between her and Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen. It is a celebration of intense and dynamic relationships developed over time but is also a tribute to performing as a compositional process that unfurls protocols of encounter with subject matter, bodies and affections.
Manon Santkin revisits and re-inhabits elements from Ingvartsen’s past works, reshaping the plot into a new structure. Like a chameleon, her body transforms as she passes through an intimate, viscous and slippery history, incorporating her personal memory into a larger body of work. From these connections, a surprising chronology emerges, a frenzy of energies that captures the enjoyment of embodiment and meshes it into the creation of a subtle network of references to the monstrous qualities of Manual Focus, the ethereal environments of The Artificial Nature Project as well as the elements of pleasure, hedonism and sexuality within 7 Pleasures…
Their artistic practice is conceived as a wild land that needs to be protected, an ecosystem to allow them to look back on their common practice as a body-archive.
Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer whose work focuses on the extension of choreographic practices, the combination of dance and movement with other fields such as the visual arts, technology, language and theory. In addition to performance and writing, both teaching and sharing research are fundamental aspects of her practice. She has a doctorate in Choreography from UNIARTS in Lunds, Sweden. She has collaborated with Xavier Le Roy, Bojana Cvejic, Jan Ritsema and Boris Charmatz, and participated in other collaborative research projects and artistic platforms plus educational projects. She founded her own company in 2003 and since then her work has been performed across Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. She has been a resident artist at the Kaaitheater in Brussels, at the Volksbühne in Berlin and is associated with the APAP network.
Manon Santkin is a dancer and performer, also involved in composition, conceptualisation, consultancy, writing and development of educational tools. She has collaborated with numerous choreographers including Mette Ingvartsen, Salva Sanchis, Sidney Leoni, Eleanor Bauer, Cecilia Lisa Eliceche, Daniel Linehan, Leslie Mannès and Fabrice Samyn. Her artistic reflections have been enriched by collaborations with sound artist Peter Lenaerts, designer Nicolas Couturier, and stylist Jennifer Defays. She is interested in the relationship between our attention span, the imagination and movement.
concept and choreography Mette Ingvartsen
with Manon Santkin
assistant choreographer Thomas Bîrzan
technical direction and lighting design Hans Meijer
sound engineer e sound design Milan Van Doren
technical assistance Jan-Simon De Lill
music Will Guthrie, Peter Lenaerts, Gregorio Allegri, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, Benny Goodman
management Ruth Collier
production and administration Joey Ng
comunication Jeroen Goffings
production Great Investment vzw
co-production STUK co-finanziato da Creative Europe programme of the European Union per DANCE ON PASS ON DREAM ON, VIERNULVIER, Festival Montpellier Danse 2024, Tanzquartier Wien, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, SPRING, CND Centre national de la danse, Perpodium
Great Investment is supported by The Flemish Authorities, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, The Danish Arts Council & The Flemish Community Commission (VGC)
ph. Bea Borgers