Residencies

• 19.04 > 24.04.2022
• 07.02 > 19.02.2022
• 09.08 > 22.08.2021
• 11.02 > 14.02.2021

In this cho­re­o­grap­hy by Castélie Yalombo, eve­ry­thing see­ms to be up in the air. Yalombo stands alo­ne on sta­ge, but her body appe­ars to be con­trol­led from out­si­de. Her move­ments are dis­rup­ted: with her eyes clo­sed, she moves her limbs as if she were her own pup­pe­teer. For this powerful per­for­man­ce, Yalombo draws on her rela­ti­ons­hip with her mul­ti­ple iden­ti­ties: she was born in Belgium to a Belgian mother and a Congolese father. Various his­to­ri­cal refe­ren­ces criss-cross her body, but each time they fade away, clai­ming a sin­gu­la­ri­ty that is more com­plex than the usu­al fra­me­works. The clay sculp­tu­res that sur­round her refer to dif­fe­rent sha­des of skin, whi­le their mate­ri­al see­ms to repre­sent a body that has not yet taken its final form, not yet lock­ed into a uni­que iden­ti­ty. In a hyp­no­tic way, Yalombo moves bet­ween the sculp­tu­res, even­tu­al­ly beco­ming a clown: the only figu­re who has the right to speak freely. After stu­dying at ISAC and wor­king as a per­for­mer for Louise Vanneste, Castélie Yalombo makes her debut at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts with Water, l’atterrée des eaux vives. A rising star and voi­ce in Belgian cho­re­o­grap­hy, she deli­vers a cap­ti­va­ting ode to ambiguity.