Sara Manente
Faire un four
performance, italian première
concept and creation Sara Manente
performance and creation Jonas Chéreau, Ondine Cloez, Madeleine Fournier, Marcos Simoes
music Christophe Albertijn
film Marcelo Mardones
dramaturgical collaboration Constanze Schellow
coaching Michiel Reynaert
drowing Hadas Cna'ani
production CABRA vzw, Beursschouwburg, Workspace Brussels, Monty
executive production Mokum vzw
with the support of WpZimmer, Apt/A.Pass, WorkSpaceBrussels, Impulstanz/Vienna, MDT Stockholm, in cooperation with Swedish international dance program Konstnärsnämden, andthe support of Flemish Community

Faire un four is an expression from the XVII century theatre world which means 'to suffer a defeat'. Literally it is 'to make an oven' but it almost sounds like 'to make a four' hence 'a quartet'. How do we recognize something as something? Anybody as somebody? Faire un four departs from four people, their physiognomy and their dances. It is not interested in individualism but in reworking the 4 as a multiple space layering ways of doing things with dance, after a long practice of interpreting, altering, adapting each other’s movements. The subject of creation is the dance, but also the dancer as a self relating to others, being influenced and multiple. Four solos generate the base for the performance while the actual piece constructs a scenic architecture for performers and spectators to process what they perceive, since to perceive resemblance is to make it happen. Faire un four produces a physical and verbal collection in which the productivity of recognition as well as the opacity of things are questioned, confused and challenged. The work is dedicated to Marcel Broodthaers and Andy Kaufman, two artists who have addressed society and art in a perpetuous effort of renarration, redefinition and rewriting - reformulating 'reality', 'identity' and 'physicality' as the field of the possible.

At Live Arts Week will be presented an excerpt from the 90' long version, accompanied by the distribution to the audience of Collection, a movie parallel to Faire un four. Marcelo Mardones documents and stages new and existing scenes, which are cinematic impressions of the performance. The movie functions like a mirror of the stage and of the process. 

sunday 21 april  > 9 pm >  MAMbo