NOBOLERO2.1
NOBOLERO 2.1 is a contemporary dance and interdisciplinary performance created by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans, founder of the ensemble Radical Low and photographer Aleksei Kazantsev. The work reinterprets Maurice Ravel’s Boléro through movement, live music and photography
Radicale 1924!2024
NOBOLERO
NOBOLERO is a contemporary dance and interdisciplinary performance created by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans, founder of the ensemble Radical Low. The work reinterprets Maurice Ravel’s Boléro through movement, live music, and visual composition
THIRTY THREE DEGREES
33 Degrees is an interdisciplinary performance and visual work by Belgian choreographer and artist Chantal Yzermans(Radical Low). The piece explores themes of power imbalance, passivity, gluttony, human sacrifice, and the representation of the nude in 20th-century art. 33 Degrees was first presented in 2017 as part of the Oostende Triennial – The Raft. Art is (not) lonely, curated by Jan Fabre, alongside internationally acclaimed and emerging artists.
PARTNER / YOU
Partner/You is a contemporary performance by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans (Radical Low) that explores chance, ritual, and mediated intimacy. During the performance, the performers connect live to a random direct-messaging platform, engaging anonymously with online partners whose presence shapes the rhythm and structure of the piece.
A triangular relationship emerges between performers, audience, and unseen digital participants, transforming online interaction into a contemporary rite. Through this process-based performance, Yzermans revisits Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, drawing parallels between pagan ritual and today’s networked forms of chance, sacrifice, and collective experience. photo Laetitia Bica
Guns/Roses
Guns/Roses is the seventh work by Chantal Yzermans. Conceived as an analogy between sport and art, the piece draws its primary material from the bodily vocabulary of the high jump. Spanish dancer Tania Arias and violinist Hans Van Kerkhoven translate movement, air, and physical transcendence into the language of dance. As in all of Yzermans’ works, the performance materializes a choreographic landscape that is closer to vision than to conventional narrative.
Guns/Roses premiered at the Escena Contemporánea Festival in 2011. The work forms part of Yzermans’ ongoing investigation into the limits of contemporary dance. photo Ronald Stoops
Arena/Act Three
Arena / Act Three is a contemporary performance by Chantal Yzermans (Radical Low) that deconstructs the movement vocabulary of Greek-Roman wrestling, transforming sport into spatial composition. The performers explore rhythm, contact, and the physical dialogue between bodies in a choreographic landscape that investigates the limits of movement and performance. photo Ronald Stoops
An Angry Boy
An angry boy/act two is a contemporary swan song based on Beethoven's Sonata Op. 106, 'Hammerklavier.' It forms the second part of ONR-I, Allegory of Night, a contemporary triptych that develops as an altarpiece for the theater stage.The performance is a contemporary portrait inspired by Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, Opus 106, the score of which was created by the composer at the end of his life. This sonata was born at the turning point between Classicism and Romanticism. photo Ronald StoopsONRI, allegory of night
The source material for this project is the 1950 black and white Hollywood Classic Movie ‘Sunset Boulevard’ by Billy Wilder. Images and Fragments of this legendary film icon are re-processed into an iconographical and theatrical action- performance by Chantal Yzermans.The set design is by the French visual artist Martine Schildge.photo Sylvia Zade Routier