Femke Gyselinck / europalia georgia & GRIP
2023Europalia acted as a matchmaker between artists Anushka Chkheidze and Femke Gyselinck – one a musician-composer from Georgia, the other a dancer-choreographer from Belgium – and initiated this meeting.
The two women made a pact. They probe, measure, count. They trace a mysterious course in the space available, an imaginary journey in 324 stages. In it, Femke again seeks a close connection between expressive, unspectacular movements and live music, combined with a bold but modest performativity. Anushka’s sound evolves through styles beyond ambient and IDM. The chords in her compositions refer to Georgian polyphony, which she looks at from her perspective and knowledge.
In 324 mountains between us, the artists show how Femke’s danced vocabulary and Anushka’s electronic compositions can sometimes bridge the distance between them but sometimes also increase that same distance.
For the scenography and costumes, Femke pursued the collaborations entered into in previous productions: Aslı Çiçek has designed a glowing set for the show and created a variation on the black box that provides inspiring constraints. Nel Maertens and Veronika Vimpelova designed the costumes.
CHOREOGRAPHY & DANCE: Femke Gyselinck
MUSIC: Anushka Chkheidze
SCENOGRAPHY: Aslı Çiçek
SCENOGRAPHY PROJECT ASSISTANCE: Olivia de Bree
COSTUMES: Nel Maertens, Veronika Vimpelova
DANCE DRAMATURGY: Steven Michel
LIGHTS: Elke Verachtert
SOUND: Milan Van Doren
INTERNSHIP: Lucas Resende
ASSIGNMENT: europalia georgia
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: GRIP
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION A Propic - Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent, Lara van Lookeren
COPRODUCTION: Perpodium
RESIDENCIES: workspacebrussels, KWP Kunstenwerkplaats, kunstencentrum nona, corso, GC De Kriekelaar, théâtre varia, P.A.R.T.S, VIERNULVIER
WITH THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF: the Flemish government, Tax Shelter of the Belgian federal government via Cronos Invest