CONTR (A / 0) VERS (E / U) S

contr(a/o)vers(e/u)s is a physical dance-theatre performance created by performer Lore Borremans and composer Adam Vincent Clarke for their company Âmok/Âmok. Exploring the tension between freedom, identity and the structures that shape us, the work places a solitary performer among hundreds of precariously stacked ceramic plates.

Combining live music, sound design and intensely physical movement, the performance gradually transforms from fragile stillness into a violent confrontation. As Borremans moves between, across and ultimately through the stacks of plates, their destruction becomes both an act of liberation and a source of danger. The work questions whether freedom can ever be achieved without consequence, and what remains when the structures defining our identities are broken apart.

Photo by Thibaut De Lestré