Moving skin (7+)

PREMIERE

Belgian choreographer Ugo Dehaes has been exploring the complex relationship between dance and technology for several years. In Moving skin, he embarks on a journey rooted in the breathtaking complexity of the human body.

Ugo takes his audience on a fascinating expedition: he makes skin dance, explores the mechanisms of our skeleton, rebuilds muscles, and attempts to inanimate materials to life. He tries to build the perfect dancer, which makes him ask himself: what is a perfect body?

Moving skin draws inspiration from the past and embraces the future. It is a tribute to the timeless fascination with the human body and a paean to the intrinsic beauty that is hidden within it. At the same time, the performance takes us into an unexplored territory of technological progress, where human creativity and artificial intelligence become inseparable partners on stage.

Please note

The Tu 04 March show at 7.30pm is in English.

About the company

Ugo Dehaes (°1977, Leuven) started to dance at the age of 18. The following year he started his full-time dance education at P.A.R.T.S., the international school for dancers and choreographers directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In 1998 Ugo started to work as a dancer for Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods. In 2000 he founded the company kwaad bloed. A first phase was inspired by the visual and mechanical aspects of the human body. The second phase consisted of very physical work.  
 
Since 2018 Ugo shifted his focus and became a ‘choreographer of things’. Ugo made the moving sculpture Forced Labor: Arena, an installation with 8 interactive robots. In Simple machines, Ugo Dehaes shows how he grows organic-looking robots in his basement, raises them and trains them to be dancers. With Willy, he created a robot-performance for the very young: children as young as 1.5 years old.