2min

Performance

Mutant Stage 9

This movie stems from the impression of the first visit of the building of the Foundation: incomplete, rugged, brutal, but also seductive and gasping, with a repetitive architecture.

Lukas Dhont graduated with a diploma in audio-visual arts from the KASK Academy in Ghent. His short films, Corps Perdu and L’Infini, received numerous prizes, namely from the Ghent Film Festival and the Louvain International Short Film Festival. L’Infini also qualified for the Oscars in 2015.

Throughout his studies, he focused on fiction but also explored the possibilities offered by the documentary genre. His short film, Skin of Glass, was selected in 2012 for the Your Film Festival in Venice. In 2016, Lukas Dhont was the winner of the Cinéfondation residency in Cannes, recognised for writing his first feature film Another Skin, currently in production. This piece combines themes the filmmaker has already explored, including: dance, transformation and identity. Lukas Dhont collaborates regularly with choreographer and dancer Jan Martens with whom he co-signed a performance titled The Common People.

Amélie Coster is an independent curator, performance programmer and producer.



She has worked at the Festival d'Avignon (1997-2000), at the Edna association - created by dancers and choreographers Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chamblas - (2000-2003), at the Parc de La Villette (2003-2008) and at Vivarium Studio with Philippe Quesne (2009-2011). She then initiates and programmes projects at the crossroads of the visual and performing arts by developing her own structure, Casoar (2012).

She thus collaborates with numerous artists, institutions and private partners. She is co-curator with Dimitri Chamblas of the exhibition 3e scène - Opéra national de Paris / Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc pour la Culture in 2016. She prepared with the curator Emilie Girard the exhibition On danse? presented at the MuCEM from January to May 2019. She has also designed an artistic programme aimed at very young children (0-3 years) for the Crèches de France group. She is currently collaborating on a documentary series on international choreographers, and on some of the actions carried out by PERU, a research laboratory on contemporary forms of hospitality.