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TO GENERATE TIME AND SPACE
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SPACE
BK Cie was grounded in 1998 in Berlin under the direction of the performer Philippe Rives.
His artistic education is multidisciplinary and takes its sources in several corporeal arts, theatre, circus and chinese martial arts.
After 15 years with Cie Les Mimobiles in Paris, he radically chooses the way of performances and body installations creation since he reached Berlin, where he also gets in touch with the contemporary dance scene.

BK Company gathers artists coming from various corporeal universes, whatever from the scene of contemporary dance, mime, butoh, body expression, gestural theatre, martial arts it is.

The research task draws its sources in these spaces in order to extract a creative substance out of it, unique and original in all its productions and also bases itself on the concept of body installaton where the notion of communication holds a primordial place.

Performances and body installations are the master words that thus most precisely qualify its productions. Indeed, the space design process of each creation being based primarily on the body element, BK Cie does not evolve any more towards the concept of spectacle to properly spoken but rather of space, of place of energies convergence and intentions.

All the productions have ultimately a central intention, a single concept developed in various forms. Concept of experimentation, communication, exchange. To physically assign the spectator, to mobilize him body and soul.

Thus, the purpose of each creation, based on a precise topic, is not to propose a polemic nor a personal vision of a particular subject, but an incentive with the "collateral effects" of what occurs on stage. Like a butterfly effect lived in the spectator, his flesh, his spirit.

performances
...to reach your inner state...
in:nerves
in:errance
in:tance
improcess
cocaïne
liegen 0°
qbik
fractal dancers
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28-30.08.08
Evo
Tanzmesse NRW
Düsseldorf (D)
Cocaïne...
This is our new concept for the next production.
A the moment, we are just collecting ideas and writing sequences for the future choreography.
We are looking for a co-production, such as a dance festival, to create this new production.
Liegen 0°...
This is our new dance production which will be created either for outdoor dance programs or specific and unusual locations. Reseach process starts soon. PErformance will be available for summer 08.
Fractal Dancers...
A gigantic installation that brings VJ, DJ and dancers together in a performance/instant creation within the urban landscape.
Tanzmesse NRW 2008...
From August 27th to 30th in Düsseldorf, we will be on the fair to present our group, projects and working direction. Our performance Evo is part of the showcase program 2008 and will be presented over 3 days.
Tanzmesse NRW 2008, is a great opportunity to discover BK Compagnie's unique work.
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        2008 - 2002
Tanzmesse NRW - Mime Square Festival ( B) -Thealter Festival (Szeged, HU) - Nacht und Nebel (Berlin) - le Silence Rompu ( B)
Support from institutions:
2000 French Institute in Timisoara (Romania), performance Cityzens
2005 French Institute in Taipei (Taiwan), performances Blite and Sculptures
2007 Kulturamt Neukölln, performance Cityzens
2008 Goethe Institute in Beirut (Lebanon), performance Cityzens

Co-productions
2005 Co-production on the dance performance in:Errance, Thealter Festival in Hungary
2007 Performance Evo, project SradArt for the French Institute in Timisoara
links
Centre National du Mime

Mime Centrum Berlin

Künstlernetz Neukölln

Capitales Culturelles

Goethe Institute

Tanzfabrik Berlin

Dock 11

Tanznetz

BIE
MAP

Stéphane Rives

Sigrid Westenfelder

Shanti Oyarzabal

© photos/videos

BK Cie - Macao Festival
Axel Schmies - S. Westenfelder
S. Oyarzabal - Europa Park
Rémi Hemmer - J. Rives
N. Rives - Bild

© photos/vidéos

BK Cie - Macao Festival
Axel Schmies - S. Westenfelder
S. Oyarzabal - Europa Park
Rémi Hemmer - J. Rives
N. Rives - Bild

Web design: MMS
contact

BK Cie
Philippe Rives

Ilsestrasse 24
12051 - Berlin
Germany

 

T+F : +49.30.62 70 51 36
Mobile : +49.176.23 83 80 32

 

www.bkcie.net
stage@bkcie.net

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IN:NERVES

On a 20m long dance floor, two yellow lines lead from nowhere to nowhere. Arrows show opposite directions to guide the two dancers in their choreographic composition. The bodies evolve within several qualities like inspired by the sound and light environment. Time to time, an informal video projection covers the constellation up.

What’s the connection to the nerves ?
Do they express anything related to nerves ?
Or at least, will the whole installation just get on your nerves ?

The 35 minutes performance is a combination of dance and video that is used more as a third partner than a typical video installation.
The dance aims to reach free style, gesture qualities, presence, body awareness more than the contemporary dance aesthetic.
Rhythms increase and switch, movements swap to other ones, a kaleidoscope is born.

It's audience freedom to interpret any situation or story out of the visual or just to take the energy as is.

creation Mime Square Festival, Aarschot 2006

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IN:ERRANCE

The lights grow blurred, a light cloud of smoke flies over the brown earth ground, the bodies take place. Slowly, a choreography emerges, initially minimalist, gestural, then the movements, bigger, the rhythms, varied. A dance, a music, a leading line, without apparent logic, but the body. in:Errance is based on the experimentation of the no theme, an attempt of a journey through the understanding by the sensory, the intuition more than intellect. It associates corporal arts from different universes, dance, gesture, organic movements, multiple energies, stretches time until the unbearable, flirts with the impalpable. in:Errance is a proposal to feel oneself facing the unknown, due to the originality of its concept...telling nothing but still...

creation Thealter Festival 2005, Szeged

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IN:TANCE

A red body anchored on the green stage, is held motionless since eternity. The life appears, slowly, by the members, until it rises hoisted on the shoulders. A sudden fall breaks the calm atmosphere which already had been installed. Moving within a space with multiple qualities this entity is metamorphosed in various attitudes and energies, generates a multitude of evocations. From the repeating movements emerges a state of trance that creates a catharsis effect .

creation Mime Square Festival, Aarschot 2004

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IMPROCESS
The main idea in the concept of Improcess, is to bring together artists from different areas and who never worked together before to create the performance at the moment it is shown. Performers, musicians, sound and light designers will be part of the team made for this unique evening. While there would be some meeting to try the different qualities and know-how out, there would be no fixed material, no developed ideas that would be kept for the final performance. The rule is clear: everything is possible, everything is allowed, if it feeds the performance up .
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COCAÏNE

This new production is still in research.

The cocaine substance will be the inspiring source for the choreography and gesture qualities as well as the several energy qualities.
It won't be here question of polemic, nor it will be a personal point of view exposed on stage, but rather a proposal of a space made of multiple corporeal states in order to produce a performance/body installation which will combine dance and body skill as well as some video projection.

The dancers, on stage, will evolve through several qualities of energy, extreme, opposit states, cristallisation of the gesture, etc...

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QBIK
An anthem for the body, Qbik is a monumental installation combining various artistic sources which interact within a scaffolding. Thus the bodies, sounds, lights and video sequences form part of this colossal choreography. The metal structure itself seems to become alive, invested by the performers who fall, jump, dance, run, inside the iron skeleton. The concept makes allows to renew ad infinitum, and according to the context of presentation, the video contents, while always keeping the body as principal subject. The imposing construction lets see the video from far, then to approach and appreciate the whole installation more in details. The structure is conceived in such way that the spectator can live the performance from the interior of the large block.
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LIEGEN 0°

Liegen 0° (translate lay down zero degree) is a performance/body installation for outdoor context, site specific and unusual locations which aims to share with the spectator a common reallity: our body.

The project is build as a combination of real stretching and deep release process of the dancers, and several short choreographic sequences.

The performance is still in research and work in progress, and will be available soon.

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FRACTAL DANCERS

Audio visual performance with dancers.

Slight movements multiplied into the light game of a virtual kaleidoscope: dancing bodies captured in evolving fractals.

Dancers and video performer create spontaneously harmonic and aesthetic images in an intuitive interplay, without having met ever before.

 

Fractal Dancers is a co-production between BK Compagnie and Generative.org

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VIDEOS

Here you can view all the actual videos of our street performances.

They are also viewable from the performances themselves directly.


in:Tance

in:Nerves

in:Errance

Fractal Dancers