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