• While we are here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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  • While we are here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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  • While we are here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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  • While we are here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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  • While we are here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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  • While We Are Here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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  • While We Are Here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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  • While We Are Here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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  • While we are here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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  • While we are here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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  • While we are here - Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

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While we are here

Lisa Vereertbrugghen / CAMPO

 

 

People have always danced intensively together, and under various names, raves have always existed. In While we are here, Lisa Vereertbrugghen investigates the timeless desire to collectively dance hard. She invited Claire Godsmark, Dolores Hulan, Eimi Leggett and Castélie Yalombo Lilonge to collectively practice hardcore rave parallel to folk dances that celebrate joy and togetherness.

Without nostalgia and with no fixed vision of the future, the group brings to life a hybrid techno-folk dance. While we are here works against control and celebrates a collective physicality.



BIO: Lisa Vereertbrugghen has been researching hardcore techno sound and dance styles since 2014, through different formats in between performance, sound and installation. She attained a master’s degree in Cultural History (history of the body) at the University of Leuven and a degree in Choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam.

She often works with long term collaborators Michael Langeder, Sophie Guisset, Vera Martins and Madison Bycroft. She also works as a dramaturg, performer and choreographer for various performance and visual artists in between Brussels, Berlin and Amsterdam and she teaches at the Académie Royale de Beaux Arts in Brussels. In recent years Lisa created Softcore - a hardcore encounter (2019) and DISQUIET - sensational aesthetics of a technokin (2021). While we are here (2023) will be the first work she makes for a group, produced by the Ghent based arts centre CAMPO.  



Premiere: 8 Dec 2023 - December Dance 2023 - Bruges
50 min. - language no problem

press

The enchantment takes place at the edges of what is visible, in the exchange of glances between the dancers and with the audience

Doppiozero - Roberta Ferraresi,

Go watch because Vereertbrugghen looks beyond the fetish of 160 beats per minute to what lives among this subculture

De Standaard - Charlotte De Somviele,

A party is a trip to somewhere else

De Standaard - Dorien Knockaert ,

The electronic heartbeat attracts the dancers like light attracts butterflies.

Bruzz - Gilles Bechet,

Theatre show seeks similarities between hardcore rave and folk dance

Het Nieuwsblad,

Choreographer Lisa Vereertbrugghen continues the party with techno and folk dance in While We Are Here in which four (sic) dancers explore the timeless desire to have fun together. The audience sits around them to feel the vibes

Knack Focus - Els Van Steenberghe,

While We Are Here is an ode to 'living in the here and now' and how celebrating 'the here and now' is of all times

Klara - Pompidou - Nicky Aerts,

You can meditate very well on techno

De Standaard - Charlotte De Somviele,

A performance that, after the exhilarating experience, makes you think. About dancing until we drop

Pzazz - Pieter T'Jonck,

The language of the play is dance. I tied multiple strings to various traditions, and my mind danced with the dancers’ bodies

Etcetera - Ugnė Jurelevičiūtė,
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