“It sounds incredibly naïve, but I’ve always considered dance and music as twins, because a series of movements shows the body in a musical condition. A series of movements makes a sound body and follows an inaudible melody, a sound line that is strictly visual.”
It’s this intuition that forms the starting point for the lecture/performance that Rudi Laermans will perform together with Viennese musician and composer Burkhard Stangl. Text and music (improvised live) are inspired by a video essay with excerpts from dance performances and Asian kung fu films. This one-off performance is part of the presentation of a selection of Laermans’s texts about contemporary dance by Sarma, the discursive workplace for reviews, dramaturgy and research in dance and performance.
Sarma is an artistic and discursive laboratory for criticism, dramaturgy and research in the field of dance and beyond. Sarma collects and organizes discursive practices. By compiling author based or thematically related text anthologies, published online on our website. But also by curating festivals, by providing dramaturgical assistance to performers, by organizing workshops, discussions, lectures, installations and research projects. Sarma is a breeding ground for artists and theoreticians to collaborate on shared problems and premises. Sarma aims for artistic work- and presentation formats that are inspiring to all.
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- lezing
- performance
- sarma
- Artists
- Burkhard Stangl
- Rudi Laermans
- www.sarma.be
- Rudi Laermans’s CV on www.kuleuven.be
- stangl.klingt.org
