KONG Workshop 1.2023
Tidal Dance with Julien Bruneau
11/02/2023
22/04/2023
The tidal dance is a formless yoga.
No postures, but the availability to a circulation that ebbs and flows from the axis of verticality. A contemplation in movement, it invites into experience the primordial pulse of apparition and withdrawal, emergence and dissipation, beginning and end.
At first, we sit in silence. We seep into bodily sensations, acknowledge the wave of breath, and embrace the space we are bathed into. Progressively movement wells up. A dance of slowness and intensity blossoms. It radiates from the center, twirls and ascends. Then, the journey recedes, back into stillness. We taste the resonance and dwell in presence, hosting the to and fro of sensations and feelings, now imbued with silence. This tidal dance is energetic work that explores lived space, a dance that celebrates being.
The practice is directly inspired by diverse approaches of Tantra (as sourced into Kashmir Yoga/non-dual Shaivism).
Where and when?
In KONG, Nieuwland 27, 9000 Ghent
On Saturday, February 11, 2023 from 10:30 to 12:30
On Saturday, April 22, 2023 from 10:30 to 12.30:
For whom?
For everyone from 16 years old
Min. 8 and max. 14 participants
Price?
€ 18 / 1 session
To be deposited into the account of KONG: BE44 4449 6430 2145
With the mention: KONGWS1.February2023 or KONGWS1.April2023
Julien Bruneau (BE) is a dancer, choreographer and
visual artist.
Julien Bruneau is an artist working with dance, being present in space, drawings and language. His practice is based on a dynamic interplay between interiority and collectivity. He creates performances, publishes, and works as an artistic researcher and a teacher. His first book, Fields, was published by Varamo Press in 2022.
From an early age, Julien was committed to movement through martial arts. Later, while studying visual arts, he discovers contemporary dance and the richness of conscious movement through different approaches: Body Weather, Yoga, Body Mind Centering, etc. In 2015, he is introduced to the ‘Authentic Movement’. After training with Céline Gimbrère, this simple and radical approach becomes a guiding principle in his work. From his long-term practice in Iyengar Yoga and later Kashmir Yoga, he teaches sessions in Tidal Dance, inspired by Tandava and Shaiva Tantra.
KONG Workshop 2.2023
The playfulness of a non-verbal dialogue:
A precious encounter with
Charlotte Joanna Vercruysse and Philomène Authelet
23/04/2023
This workshop has grown from a special experience of Charlotte. During the lockdown, she moved in with her grandmother to take care of her. From her skills as an acrobat, Charlotte found a way to communicate vividly with her grandmother through movement. A dialogue in words gradually became impossible, but Charlotte’s grandmother continued to respond to movement. This is what Charlotte made her master film about at KASK. The film is not only gripping, it also clearly shows how important ‘thinking and conversing in movement’ are in the mutual dialogue between people.
For the workshop in KONG, she and her dance partner Philomène will playfully delve deeper into this ‘thinking and conversing in motion’. Something we do so spontaneously as a child and later seem to forget.
Charlotte invites you to reflect on this playful and grounded way of connecting with the other through listening to your own body and that of the other. A safe atmosphere of togetherness makes it possible to interact without words in both a tactile and non-tactile way.
We don’t dwell on it enough: moving is our mother tongue. This is what we will look for.
Where and when?
In KONG, Nieuwland 27, 9000 Ghent
On Sunday 23 April 2023
From 10:30 to 12:30
For whom?
For everyone from 12 years old
Min. 8 and max. 14 participants
Price?
€ 20 for 1 sessions of 2 hours
To be deposited into the account of KONG: BE44 4449 6430 2145
With the mention: KONGWS2.2023
Charlotte is a filmmaker and acrobat. Through movement both these worlds invite her into ‘storytelling’ and communication. Besides exploring the body and the connection between different bodies, she is also curious about what circus and film can mean to each other.
Philomène is a dancer, acrobat and massage therapist. Thanks to these different perceptions of the body, she explores a unique style of communication. For her, taking care of yourself and the other is a very important factor in moving and communicating creatively with others.
KONG Concert 1.2023
An evening of adventurous music with Oker and Poor Isa
04/05/2023
Ruben Machtelinckx and Frederik Leroux transport the audience in a musical world remarkably instrumented. After that, Oker brings us intimate music that surprises in texture: improvisations and minimal compositions.
For those who like to listen intensely to a music that always opens up
new horizons.
Where and when?
In KONG, Nieuwland 27, 9000 Ghent
On Thursday 4 May 2023 at 20:00
For whom?
For anyone who likes to listen intensely to music and loves to be transported to unknown territories.
Price?
€ 20
To be desposited into the account of KONG: BE44 4449 6430 2145
With the mention: KONGConcert1.2023
Oker
Oker is an acoustic experimental quartet focusing on the amalgamation of improvised and composed modes of expression. Their music combines fine-tuned tonalities, deconstructed grooves, acoustic noise and other sonic events, taking their rather conventional instrumentation as a point of departure. Textures in gradual change coexisting with responsive and spontaneous gestures create a varied but coherent musical ecosystem which can be airy or dense, dry or blooming. A certain minimalist or stoic approach to sound production is an overarching and recurring element in all of Oker's music, differentiating their sound from the majority of music in the field of improvised music or free jazz. Oker has toured extensively in Europe and has released two records - Husene våre er museer, released on SOFA music in 2018 and Susurrus, released on Shhpuma in 2021.
Fredrik Rasten – gitar
Torstein Lavik Larsen – trumpet
Adrian Fiskum Myhr – double Bass
Jan Martin Gismervik – drums
Poor Isa
Poor Isa, the duo of Ruben Machtelinckx and Frederik Leroux, has a very remarkable instrumentation. With prepared banjo and woodblocks they create an environment in which silence and sound are equivalent. From isolated and magnified elements arise rippling compositions in which subtle and hardly audible sounds come to the surface. In spring 2019 they released ‘Let’s Drink The Sea And Dance’, a wonderful bundle of nine compositions on the Belgian label Aspen Edities. Their second album is expected in the fall of 2023.
Frederik Leroux
– banjo, woodblocks
Ruben Machtelinckx
– banjo, woodblocks
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