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Shadowboxing

With Shadowboxing, Frédéric Gies channels years of research around club dancing as an art form. They break down the barriers between popular and professional dance(s) in this poetic experimentation of a dance floor on a dance floor.

"Since 2014 and my encounter with the techno dj and producer Fiedel, techno music is a central element in my pieces. Many of my latest works reference clubs and raves, in the dance itself or in the collective experience to which I invite the spectators. During these years, I have also developed a practice called Technosomatics, which brings together somatic explorations and club dancing. In some of my pieces, I have worked on approaching club dancing in a formal and compositional way.

Shadowboxing takes club dance as a vast field of movement and poetic experimentation and states that this form of dance is way more than just dancing around. Through the dance and the way it is interwoven with the music, various bodies and images take shape. My body becomes the channel for making other characters, creatures and entities temporarily inhabit the dance floor."

/ Frédéric Gies

Creation: 2022
Premiere: Jun. 2, 2022 * Farsta, Stockholm, SE
Duration: 60 min.

Choreography: Frédéric Gies
Dance: Frédéric Gies
Music: Fiedel
Lighting Design: Thomas Zamolo
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

Photos: Thomas Zamolo and Micaela Blomqvist

Produced by SITE

With the support of Kulturrådet

SITE (premiere) (SE), Tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf (DE), Intonal festival (SE), Insomnia Festival (NO)
Team:
1 dancer, 1 musician, 1 technician
Minimum Stage Dimension:
W10m x D10m
Height to the grid:
Min. of 6m.
Technical Rider available on demand.
Audience activity is available.
Pricing varies according to conditions & number of performances.
Please get in touch for further information.
“In “Shadowboxing” [Gies] becomes a raver pro toto. The ally of all dancers and all dancing, they pour their complicity into an intense stage action. The audience is ecstatic and still brimming with energy when the performance ends. (...) [Fiedel] and Gies opened one of the toughest doors in the world and gave the Tanzhaus the Berghain magic. Not everyone is that lucky.” - Sema Kouschkerian, Rheinische Post
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