After performing for various choreographers and theater makers for many years, Anke decided to create her first own full length dance theater piece in 2013 'Wint Windt?' ('Wind wins?'), fully independently.
It was an immediate succes in the field of theater for the young audiences.
While touring around the Belgian countryside for 3 years, she developed a second piece 'Droomkoorts' ('Dream fever') which started touring for 3 years in 2016.
These two first productions evolved out of a melting pot of dance, theater, theatrical illusions and non verbal storytelling.
Anke didn't want to be put in an certain artistic box. Crossing the borders between different disciplines was her natural way of working.
Since 2018 Anke is working on 'ImpulZ' under the wings of the well known Theater De Spiegel in Antwerp belgium.
ImpulZ is a show in which the audience – literally – has its fingers on the button, interacting with a dancer in the middle of the stage.
The children can trigger sounds by pushing buttons. That sound is converted live into a musical soundscape containing cues recognized by the dancer.
A choreographic box of building bricks is created as contribution to one new dance sequence after another.
The scenography is an installation: A wall of hand-made instruments on one side and a button landscape surrounding it. The children and families are seated in front of the landscape, that allows them to control the wall of instruments.
The generated sounds are cues for the dancer, but the musician can manipulate them if he chooses to.
The dancer can in turn also influence the audience, the musician and the button landscape.
The audience is a co-creator in a very literal sense, every party gets decisive power. Both dance and composition are contemporary instant creations, improvised around a dramaturgical structure. It's a bold production with many variables that will be different every time.
In ImpulZ Anke is in search of new borders to investigate and tear down.
The first public performance was held September 2020 in Antwerp at De Studio.
Trailer: Click below
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