post-DAB

JANUARY—FEBURARY 2022
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

post-DAB is a movement research project where dance artist duo Jean-Baptiste Portier and Synne Elve Enoksen comes together to play seriously with movement. post-DAB is a hybrid creation, where influence of the postmodern choreographer Trisha Brown, encounters a viral pop-culture dance phenomena, the DAB. 

The title post-DAB, or after/beyond DAB, refers to a meeting point between postmodern dance, and the DAB:

The coming together of the two materials creates for us an interesting paradox. On one side you have the founder of postmodernism in dance, Trisha Brown, a dance artist icon in the niche field that is contemporary dance. The influence of her work had a great importance for the development of contemporary dance and therefore is treated respectably. On the other side you have DAB, a simple gesture that became a viral sensation in 2015. It started as a dance move from the Atlanta trap music circles and found its way up to Hillary Clinton and the Norwegian Royal family, becoming the Macarena of our times. What can we say about setting up such a paradox? What does it mean to combine a viral trivial dance meme with an honorable part of dance history? How do we make novelty and nobility play together? 

“With post-DAB we would like to create movement material both complex in form and extensive in its articulation. Without the intention of removing ornament, we would rather give space to and look closely at the essence of movement. We want the material to speak by encouraging the body to express moving through movement. By extracting as much as possible the projection of meaning or representations, we want to take choreography to a place that is rather experienced than read.”  

Concept/research
Synne Elve Enoksen
Jean-Baptiste Portier

Video
Mary Szydlowska

Supported by
Norsk Kulturfond
(forprosjekt scenekunst)


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