Aerowaves Triple Bill

Date:

Tue 5 Nov 2024

Time:

19:00 - 20:30

Please Note:

No shoes in studios. Shoe covering available at reception. No heels permitted.

Venue:

DanceHouse

Admission:

€10 Non-members / €8 DI Members

As part of Artists Encounter, three former Aerowaves choreographers will present extracts of their work in a triple bill: Silvia Gribaudi (from 2010) will perform her solo ‘A corpo libero’, Eva Recacha (from 2023) will present the solo ‘Because I Can’ performed by Lauren Potter and Jean-Baptiste Baele (from 2023) will perform ‘Nabinam’. After the performances dramaturg Monica Gillette will facilitate a talk with the artists.

Taking place at Dance Ireland from 4 until 8 November 2024, this will be the fourth edition of Aerowaves’ Artists Encounter, a programme for dance makers interested in developing and/or expanding their connections with international artists and presenters. 

Artists Encounter Dublin 2024 is organised in collaboration with Dance Ireland, and with the support of The Arts Council and the Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin.

More information about Aerowaves Artist Encounter programme.

About the works:

‘Nabinam’ by Jean-Baptiste Baele is an auto-biographical solo piece in which the protagonist comes close to the audience to recount his adoption story. The challenges he encountered along the way unfold in his retelling, such as the constant comparison of different skin colours or being apart from a sibling. Honest with a touch of humour, ‘Nabinam’ takes the audience on a roller coaster of emotions with its unpredictable changes of pace.

‘Because I Can’ by Eva Recacha is a delicate dance solo made by Eva Recacha in collaboration with performer Lauren Potter and sound artist Alberto Ruiz Soler, exploring notions of power, memory and growing old.

The piece is a poetic stream of consciousness where memories flow in and out of the performer's grasp, leaving a delicate scent of nostalgia and loss. The audience witnesses the performer revisit various memories, her presence becoming an ode to a quiet yet liberating rebelliousness that turns intimacy into a tower of power.

‘A corpo libero’ by Silvia Gribaudi is a work that gently mocks the female condition starting from the joyful fluidity of the body, exploring inadequacy, omnipotence and acceptance through a combination of expressive techniques.

Embracing her curves and ‘soft parts’, the performer’s physicality becomes the surface of her inner world. Silvia Gribaudi’s ‘A corpo libero’ is a desecrating performance, the cry of revolt from a woman seeking freedom.

 

 

 

About Jean-Baptiste Baele

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jean-Baptiste Baele is a freelance Belgian choreographer based in Kristiansand, Norway. Originally from Madagascar, he grew up in Belgium where he started to dance  when he was 19 years old. Under the mentorship of Valérie Matthieu and Talina Jager, Jean-Baptiste evolved as a dancer in Belgium for three  years before moving to London to study a bachelor degree at Trinity Laban conservatory of Music and Dance. After graduating in 2015 with the Marion North Award Of Outstanding Performance Achievement, Jean-Baptiste presented his piece Rhetorical is the good word, a duet with young Belgian artist Malik Zaryaty, in the Bonnie Bird Theater., He has performed for several choreographers such as Mia Habib (How to Die Inopiné, Norway), Daniel Mariblanca (Normal, Norway), Fred Gehrig (Synchronicity, UK), Freya Pauwels (Morning, BEL), Niki Van Callandt (Spectrum, NDL), Raynold Battesti (Nuits Nocturnes by Cie des sources, BEL), and Yves Ruth (U.F.O. by W.A.N.P., BEL) among others. 

 

 

 

In 2018, Jean-Baptiste Baele choreographed his first piece ‘A Tome’ just ended for the Perpetuum Mobile Festival, and met Julie Amal, with whom he founded Baejjahn Dance company, based in Brussels. He was co-director and choreographer of the company until 2021.

 

 

 

When it comes to choreographing, Jean-Baptiste focuses on investigating the complexity of social behaviours , the historical background of a body and its memories, and physicalities that evolve through space.

 

 

 

About Eva Recacha

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eva is a London based dance artist exploring movement and text. Her choreographic work explores the role of performers as individuals, text as part of the choreographic fabric, and the politics of performance in terms of who acts under who’s command, under what premises, and for what? She regularly collaborates with sound artist Alberto Ruiz Soler.

 

 

 

Eva has twice been a Place Prize Finalist. Her work has appeared in Time Out’s Best of the Year and has presented at festivals across Europe. She has been commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, The Place, DanceXchange, Festival Trayectos, Festival Santa Susanna. Eva has previously been a The Place artist and is a Sadler’s Wells Summer University Artist graduate.

 

 

 

Eva has lectured in dance at LCDS, Trinity Laban, Conservatorio Superior de Danza Maria de Avila (Madrid), Birkbeck College, Candoco Foundation Course, and she regularly teaches workshops and classes combining her specialist skills on Choreological studies, Choreography, and her interest in text and sound, working across different groups of participants of different ages and experiences.

 

 

 

Her latest works are ‘Because I can’, premiered at The Place 2022, ‘Is This A Dance?’, a work for children co-created with Lola Maury that will premiere in Autumn 2022 at The Place, and The Picnic, a Sadler’s Wells commission that will premiere in Autumn 2023.

 

 

 

About Silvia Gribaudi

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silvia Gribaudi is an Italian choreographer, performer and theatre maker. Since 2004 she has explored the social impact of bodies through a comic choreographic language, as well as focusing on the relationship between audience and performer.

 

 

 

She has received multiple awards and recognition for her work. ‘A CORPO LIBERO’ (2009), received the Premio Giovane Danza D’Autore, and was also a finalist at the Premio UBU for best dance show, and the Premio Rete Critica. For ‘R.OSA’ (2017), she won the Premio CollaborAction#4 2018 2019 and was a finalist of the Premio Rete Critica 2019. ‘GRACES’ (2019) won the DANZA&DANZA award in 2019 for the best Italian production.

 

 

 

Silvia has taken part in several artistic research projects, including: CHOREOROAM (2011), TRIPTYCH (2013), and ACT YOUR AGE (2014) – an EU project about active ageing through the art of dance. This inspired the performance WHAT AGE ARE YOU ACTING?, as well as the community project OVER 60; PERFORMING GENDER (2015); CORPO LINKS CLUSTER (2019/2020), where the connection of dance, the mountains, and the mountain community gave life to a site-specific project TREKKING COREOGRAFICO (choreographic trekking), and to the piece MONJOUR (2021), produced by Torino Danza Festival and Brussels’s Les Halles de Schaerbeek.

 

 

 

In 2021, she was a guest choreographer at “Danser Encore, 30 solos pour 30 danseurs”, a project for the Opéra de Lyon. In June 2023, she premiered her new production GRAND JETÉ co-produced by MM Contemporary Dance Company (IT), La Biennale de Lyon (FR), Théâtre de la Ville (FR), Torinodanza Festival (IT), International Dance Festival TANEC PRAHA (CZ), Zodiak – Side Step Festival (FIN), within the frame of the international network Big Pulse Dance Alliance.

 

 

 

Silvia Gribaudi is an associate artist at Le Gymnase CDCN (Roubaix – France) 2024-2026 and at  the Teatro Stabile di Torino- Teatro Nazionale (Italy) 2025-2027.