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Mette Ingvartsen (DK/BE)

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Manual Focus
Mette Ingvartsen (DK/BE)

In the retrospective around her work, choreographer Mette Ingvartsen returns to the very beginning of her career with Manual Focus. In an alienating and radical presentation that is downright infectious at the same time, she explores not only the body itself, but more importantly the ways we look at it.

Festival Julidans
Programme section Julidans On Stage

Location Frascati
Venue Frascati 2
Run time 30 minutes
Genre Dance
Language Language no problem

Manual Focus


Mette Ingvartsen made her debut in 2003 with her choreography Manual Focus, which proved to be groundbreaking for her later work. In this dance piece, she emphasises physical actions and movements, regardless of psychological motivations that may lie behind them. This approach also characterises the works that followed in later years, in which Ingvartsen continues her uncomplicated explorations of the body and our perception with infectious enthusiasm.

Manual Focus is an almost sculptural work in which Ingvartsen's fascination with identity and binary oppositions shines through. The visual piece is an excellent example of her 'mission' in dance: in-depth research into the relationship between body, space and audience, to raise social and political issues.
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In Manual Focus, Ingvartsen completely turns your gaze around, turning arms and legs upside down and switching front and back of the body. Naked women with masks of old men on the back of their heads turn into monstrous twelve-legged organisms. Animal bodies change from disorganised beings to humans without heads or other unnamed categories. An alienating sense of de-identification emerges in a continuous flow of transformation.

Mette Ingvartsen: "The masks were a starting point for how to blend masculine and feminine and how to blur the line between different categories. Not just male and female, but also artificial and real, naked and masked, or even just a general notion of supposedly fixed opposites. I wanted to try to blend opposites in a way that would make them inseparable.”

Mette Ingvartsen

Credits

concept Mette Ingvartsen
creation Manon Santkin, Kajsa Sandstrom, Mette Ingvartsen
performers Manon Santkin, Kajsa Sandstrom, Kaya Kolodziejczyk
originally produced by P.A.R.T.S.
thanks to Bojana Cvejić, Peter Lenaerts
support Great Investment
is supported by de Vlaamse Overheid, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC), Deense Kunstraad

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