Monday means Open monday at Volksroom and around 20 curious people did
find the door at Chausée de Mons 33b this monday.
First artist out was Camilla Monga with the solo Iperspazio accompanied
by the musician Luca Scapellato.
She starts at the wall searching a way into the space. Slowly with
patience and curiosity she finds it, not only a way but also force to conquer
the space, to eat the space until she actually are playing with the space.
Sometimes she is so audacious that she leave the space for itself. She stands
in the periphery and let the space vibrate and work.
The space becomes a
Iperspazio with good help from Luca Scapellato´s music or sound. He´s filming
the space and with a program, the computer are reading and sending out a sound
that follows, expands and transforms the movement of Camilla. The intensity of
the sound are depending on where she is and how she moves. This clear game of
movement, person, sound and space in relation to each other evoke and provokes
a lot of question as:
How does the space sound?
What are movement(s) provoking or initiating in the space?
How aware of this am I in daily life?
Camilla with her present and a sincere listening to her own movement(s)
creates a big space to speak about space.
Iperspazio can absolutely be longer and how she finished it here in
Volksroom was to abrupt and hard. I would love to see a reworked version!
Next on the program this monday was something completely else. The butoh
dancer Soléne de Cock together with four musicians presented Butõ. The
musicians warmed up the space and created a earth smelling atmosphere while the
singer leaned against the wall wrapped in a birthday decoration that she
probably found backstage some minutes before the show.
Out from a hole creeps Soléne forward and present a complex butoh personage
that holds the publics pulse up during the whole performance. Even though I
need to say that after 15 minutes of Solénes performance the energy is falling,
she hasn´t used the possibility to change rhythm - it becomes almost like a
prolonged prologue. But in this moment one of the light projectors start to flicker
and a confusing light is taking over Volksroom. Soléne use this strange moment
in an excellent way and transforms the light problem into an emotional
explosion and for us in the public it is a pleasure to follow her to the end.
All in all it was a wonderful monday evening with 2 very different approaches
to the performing art .
Thank you.
