BEA DEBRABANT (FRANCE)
This performance is inspired by nature.
Trees grow rooted in the ground. Curbing the elements of nature takes time, adaptation to the environment is slow and meditative. This performance, inspired by nature, is about trees, or about people who are vital to each other in order to communicate, breathe, act, survive, and relentlessly seek their fern flower.
Bea Debrabant was born in 1985 in Aurrilac, France. Graduated dance academy, took part in professional atlethics, studied physical education in Academy of Science, Sports and Technology. Choreographer also studied in music school, she plays flute and piano. She joined her interests of music and sports in dance, which crosses the boundaries of traditional dance because of this unexpected synthesis of disciplines. The artists have mastered different styles of dance: contemporary dance, hip hop, ballet and jazz. Seeking for personal and unique development of the vocabulary, the choreographer keeps experimenting and playing with movements. Her creations are filled with energy, the search of stability/ instability, Tai Chi philosophy, and vitality brought by music.
Bea Debrabant has worked between France and USA for six years as a choreographer, dancer and teacher, and also assisted an american choeographer Vendetta Mathea for several years. There are three independent projects in her biography: a solo called “Parachutes ending” in 2009, quartet “Avec ou sans” in 2010, and duet “Matiere Androgyne” back in 2011.
In 2013 Bea moved to Belgium and settled down in Brusel, where she had met slovakian choreographer Anton Lachky. In 2015 she joined a company of brasilian choreographer’s Richard Ambrosio called “Untamed productions”, created her solo <<Esperanza>>. In 2015 she danced with hip hop troupes in France and in 2017 she was the assistant of the choreographer Leif Firnaher and also a dancer in his performance “Sarambi” in Paraguay.
Choreography
Bea Debrabant (France)
Lights
Vladimiras Šerstabojevas
Costumes
Kristina Čyžiūtė, Bea Debrabant
Music
Dhafer Youssef „Soupir Eternal“, Hessien „Placing Shells“
Premiere line-up
Blake Seidel, Chiara Corbetta, Clara Giambino, Erik Zarcone, Evgenii Kalachev, Jasper Narvaez, Julija Mintautė, Matthew Livingston, Marine Fernandez, Mei Chen.
Dancers
Ester Bega, Heung Won Lee, Julija Strupaitė, Marine Fernandez, Pepe Jaimes, Susanna Maggio, Diego Alcalá, Jed Nagales, Dalila Tiraboschi, Nanaho Kugawa, Carolina Merlo
Premiere
March 20, 2018 Kaunas, Days of Francophonie
Duration
45 min.
Art director of the theater
Birutė Letukaitė
Photo: Svetlana Batura