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MAZING

2016

What does it mean to be together? In Mazing, five dancers are set in motion by the audience, creating visible networks of action which emerge from simple social negotiations. This gently destabilizing performance both challenges and strengthens notions of community, re- affirming the power of touch in the digital age.

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Today, the social is a performance, and performance is a social event: how can we use this to generate new models of positive sociality through performance? Enter Mazing to catch a glimpse of one possibility, based on the simple power of the dancing body, the factuality of movement and the fragility of contact.

Direction: Vera Tussing

Dancers, choreographic and co-creators: Shosha van Kranendonk, Thomas Saulgrain, Vera Tussing, Esse Vanderbruggen, Zoltan Vakulya

Contextual research and dramaturgical assistant: Sebastian Kann, JS Rafaeli

Technical support and lights: Thomas Vermaercke Sound: Ruben Martinez, Michael Picknett

Costume: Sofie Durnez

Illustration: Gosia Machon

Production: Klein Verzet, Vera Tussing

Executive production: Hiros

Supported by: Flemish Government, STUK (Leuven), Kaaitheater (Brussels), KAAP (Bruges/Ostend) and Workspace Brussels. Commissioned by: The Place (UK), Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek (Brussels) and Work Place at The Place (UK). 

​​Vera Tussings creative processes, performances and installations are driven by her interests in dance, movement, perception, the senses, embodied experience, multisensorial spectatorship, collectivity and consent. Her most recent series of work, the Tactile Cycle, is formed of stage creations, sculptures and movement-sound installations focussed around the creation of unique, inter-personal encounters between audience and performer. She graduated from London Contemporary Dance School, and has worked as a dancer, director and researcher throughout Belgium, the UK and across Europe.

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