TRACES

World premiere on the 8th of December 2019 in the context of Europalia Romania during December Dance in Concertgebouw Bruges.

In TRACES, Wim Vandekeybus follows the traces he has left. He looks back on the intuitions from whence his search began: to the drama of impulses and instincts; to the game of energies and intensities. In the overwhelming Romanian nature, with Europe's last primeval forests, Vandekeybus searches for traces that are older than man and his memory. For ‘the inner story’, for the story that unfolds before or beyond language and can only be told in the pulses of dance and music.

It is a search for traces of nature that the body has forgotten or repressed. How much nature still lives in human mankind? How much animal in the human body? What happens when at risk or in danger, when we have to take intuitive decisions to survive?

Ten dancers move to a soundtrack composed by Trixie Whitley, Shahzad Ismaily, Ben Perowsky and Daniel Mintseris, recorded with special guest Marc Ribot on guitar.

"With TRACES, Wim Vandekeybus confirms that he is a phenomenal choreographer: the very physical In Spite of Wishing and Waiting, had already thrilled the audience, resulting in very high expectations. With TRACES, those expectations were not only met but by far exceeded. TRACES is much more than a simple choreography: it is an investigation into human nature told through snappy bodies and spectacular stage effects." 

-- Marievittora Veneruso (teatro.it)