CHOREOGRAPHY
SO?!WHAT
" Fascinant de bout en bout, cet exercice incroyablement exigeant sur le plan physique fait surgir de multiples images, des créatures virtuelles aux déformations de Quasimodo, Hulk ou Elephant Man, des sculptures de Rodin.." Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir
Conception, choreography and performance: Ariadna Gironès Mata
Assistant: Alban Ovanessian
Light design: Hugues Girard
Sound design: Annalena Fröhlich
Scenography :Carme Mata Coca & Betty Cau
Punctual external eye: Greet Van Poeck, Pieter Ampe, Esse Vanderbruggen, Joseph Rioton, Béatrice Wegnez
Coproduction :
Les Brigittines, Festival de Liège — Biennale Internationale des Arts de la scène
Avec le soutien de :
De Grote Post, Le 140, Factory, La Chaufferie Acte1, Foyer Culturel Jupille — Wandre, Voetvolk/Lisbeth Gruwez & Maarten Van Cauwenberghe, Garage29, Maison de la Poésie,La Roseraie, Carpa Revolució, Bolivianow, CCBarceloneta, LadyFest, LookIn’Out Festival, Cocq’Arts Festival, Parhassard festival, Dansvitrine, Game Over Festival, GC Den Dam, La Maison de la Création, Le Bamp, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles — Service de la Danse, equal.brussels, St Gilles Gillis, VlaamseGemeenschap.
Merci à : Paula Mambo, Daan Borloo, Eliott Delcroix, Lluna Gay, Sandra Ordoñez, Carles Gironès Batllori, Xavi Galopa.
SO?!WHAT is a performance that combines choreographic, visual, and plastic arts. Ariadna Gironès dances through different physicalities while bending, distorting, and transforming her body with various layers that cover it in different ways.
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These layers are visible to the audience but represent what the character wants to hide, rejecting any notion of self-acceptance. The piece poses a crucial question: is it we who do not accept ourselves as we are, or is it society that does not accept us?
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Where is the focus of this body on stage? In society, in the audience, in ourselves, in the character? A mirror is created, a parallelism, a vicious circle, where the two visions touch and collapse, generating a monster that society itself rejects. These parallelisms run throughout the piece, addressing social expectations, gender dynamics, and stereotypes.
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A story of fears, power and taboos.
A woman’s look at a woman’s body.
A dance, a ritual, an outlet.