16.05, 17.05, 21 — 23.05

Kwame Boafo Accra

Threshold

dance — premiere

Arts et Métiers - Institut Marguerite Massart

Accessible for wheelchair users with assistanceSeating without backrest | ⧖ ±1h | €16 / €13

Can a choreography intertwine different movements, like those of a human body and the flow of goods in a globalised world? Artist Kwame Boafo lives and works in Accra, Ghana, where he plans to open an institute of movement and philosophy. Accra is also the port city through which European end-of-life cars enter the West African market, often after being reconditioned in Brussels. With Threshold, Boafo creates a beautiful solo using visually refined images and movements relating to car fragments to unfold a poetic dialogue between choreography and commercial history. He collaborated with artist Percy Nii Nortey, known to use found objects and materials from mechanical workshops in Ghana to tell the stories collected by these end-of-life cars. For this performance, in collaboration with students from the Institut Marguerite Massaert, he created a curtain out of Ghanaian fabrics used to clean the vehicles that arrive from Brussels. Now, presented in the monumental atrium of the Arts et Métiers building – located in the canal area from which cars usually depart – Threshold appears as a visceral composition, dancing in the unexpressed spaces between our presence, environmental degradation and consumerism. In this performance, we suddenly feel the human and non-human movements in our global economy.

16.05

17.05

21.05

22.05

23.05

Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Institut Marguerite Massaert
Choreography and performance: Kwame Boafo | Art installation and set design: Percy Nii Nortey in collaboration with students from Institut Marguerite Massaert | Sound artist: Hakeem Adam | Dramaturge: Yasen Vasilev
Commissioned and produced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts

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