Les Gentils Pois(s)ons dances ‘menlightened’. A performance about the question where exactly lies the border between ‘normal’ and ‘disturbed’. If we all don’t have this ambivalence inside of us. We want to question our judgement about ourselves and the people around us.
Could we imagine creating our own parallel world, in which reality and fantasy blend together? To flee in a fantastic universe?
A mysterious world full of estranging but pleasantly disturbed characters reveals itself, where nothing is what it seems. Or does it?
Simultaneously light hearted and captivating. About the madman in each of us who’s on a quest for tenderness, affection, answers,… About the madman in each of us who’s on a quest. About our daily madness.

About Lies
Lies Mahy (BE) graduated in July 2004 as a performing dancer at the Rotterdam Dance Academy (now Codarts). Since than Lies performed in different dance and theatre productions from e.a. Erwin Wauters, Wim Geysen, Dieter Defurne, Christoph Winkler, Willi Dorner and in the opera ‘A Rake’s Progress’ in La Monnaie & Opéra de Lyon.
During her studies, Lies created her first piece ‘Figures for a man, a women and a cube’. But the work with some dancers for the shooting of a movie for the play ‘Spiegelschrift’ of Wim Geysen in 2010 made her interest in choreography revive. ‘menlightened’ is her first evening filling piece.

For Lies dance is a way of expression, that’s why dance itself will always be present in her creations. Her work is slightly theatrical, sensitive, human. She likes the somewhat animalistic aspect of movements, energetic and explosive, but also silence and aesthetics. The visual aspect is an important part of her work. The magic of lighting has always fascinated and inspired her.

Dance is one of the purest forms of being and yet we are so alienated from it. We use our bodies daily but we seem to have lost touch with it. Les Gentils Pois(s)ons wants to bring (contemporary) dance back to its origins – dance as a means of feeling and expression – and wants to make us understand that it still lives inside us. Because movement is close to each of us, Les Gentils Pois(s)ons wants to use it to bring people together, to make them see, move, think, live.

Choreography: Lies Mahy
Music: Tim Vets
Dance: Anne Marie Honggokoesoemo, Eleonora Ilia, Rosana Pinheiro
Costumes: Greet Joos
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