FORCES is a futuristic and immersive ritual where three female figures carry us away in a whirlwind of primary, telluric and technological forces. Like cyborg warrior shamans, these smugglers draw on the invisible, to make their bodies the vector of a vital, collective, emancipatory metamorphosis.
In the wake of ATOMIC 3001, Leslie Mannès, Thomas Turine and Vincent Lemaître continue to explore the triangular and fusional relationship between body, sound and light, in order to provoke in the viewer a sensory, total and inclusive experience.
FORCES uses the irrational to celebrate the power of the living by featuring a permeable body in constant mutation, a body connected to the elements, to chaos, to joy and to the community trying to re-appropriate its power from within.
"The power from within is the power from below, from the dark, from the earth, the power that comes of our blood, our lives and our desire passionate about living things. It's the power to feel to heal, to love, to create, to give shape to our future, to change our social structures. ” Starhawk - Dreaming of the Dark: Women, Magic and Politics
Concept, writing and directing Leslie Mannès, Thomas Turine, Vincent Lemaître
Choreography Leslie Mannès
Sound creation & original music Thomas Turine
Light creation Vincent Lemaître
Interpretation Daniel Barkan, Mercedes Dassy, Leslie Mannès (alternating with Thi-mai Nguyen, Loraine Dambermont, Eugenia Lapadula, Lila Magnin) Costume design Marie Artamonoff
Sound engineer alternating Fred Miclet / Boris Cekevda
Artistic advisor Joëlle Bacchetta
Photo Laetitia Bica/Espèces, Hichem Dahes
Development, production, communication and diffusion BLOOM Project
Production Asbl Hirschkuh + BLOOM Project
Coproduction Les Brigittines Bruxelles, Le Gymnase - CDCN Roubaix (Acceuil studio)
Supports Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Service de la Danse, SACD Beaumarchais, SACD Belgium, La Balsamine Brussels, Cosipie asbl, Charleroi danse, Centre Culturel René Magritte, Lessines & Wallonie-Bruxelles International
This show was created in December 2019 at Les Brigittines.