Pieter Ampe, Guilherme Garrido, Hermann Heisig y Nuno Lucas / CAMPO
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| Concept and performance: | Pieter Ampe, Guilherme Garrido, Hermann Heisig y Nuno Lucas |
| Assistant Playwright: | Louise Van Den Eede |
| Company’s “external eye” in A Coming Community : | Robert Steijn |
| Thanks to: | Dirk Pauwels |
| Technicians: | Philippe Digneffe, Bennert Vancottem |
| Photography: | Reinout Hiel |
Under the umbrella of the Belgian production centre CAMPO, a European reference for contemporary creation, A Coming Community, defined by the critics as “an intense, turbulent and comic show”, presents the collaboration onstage of four young and restless artists whose work explores the limits of dance and physical theatre in different ways. They are Nuno Lucas, born in 1980, Hermann Heisig 1981, Pieter Ampe 1982 and Guilherme Garrido 1983. During the last ten years, their careers have met and intertwined in different combinations and various circumstances. Finally, the striking similarities and contradictions in both their work and personal lives led them to dream of doing something together as a quartet. A Coming Community is the result.
Searching for ways to present themselves as a homogeneous team with wishes fulfilled and dreams come true, the four boys will inevitably provide inconsistent or sometimes even blatantly false information. But this kind of lying is only driven by the wish to belong somewhere, or to someone or something, and by the inner need to make something fabulous out of something ordinarily mundane. This is what A Coming Community is about, and in the process, the four young artists will drag the audience softly into their world of fantasy and imagination, of fairy tales and glorious meetings, through a unique and provoking choreographic language that explores the intimacy of personal relationships. Maybe they still do not know where this common journey will take them, but they are ready to give up everything so that the story can keep evolving.
The world premiere of A Coming Community took place in Brussels (Belgium), as part of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, on May 19th 2012.
