A Wave - Zoë Demoustier

Dance heritage as a fertile ground for endless playful enjoyment From the triangular relationship between Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp emerges in the 1980s a generation of radical dance innovators. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus, Marc Vanrunxt, Alain Platel, Jan Fabre and many others gradually infiltrate Belgian theatres with their unconventional productions. In no time, they also flood the Netherlands, Europe and the rest of the world. That 'Flemish Wave' has profoundly influenced the way we watch and dance, it turns out now, some forty years later. In A Wave choreographer Zoë Demoustier takes stock. With some fifteen dancers – from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, supplemented by young people, a dancer from Platform K and iconic dancers who created the pieces of old – she deconstructs monumental scenes from the 1980s and 1990s with an eye to the future. Together they explore what needs to be passed on and what could use an update. But above all: how references can be not a straitjacket but a source for dance pleasure and – who knows – a new wave.