
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.

© 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

BK Cie
Philippe Rives
Ilsestrasse 24
12051 - Berlin
Germany
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www.bkcie.net
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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
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
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
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...
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.
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
Here you can view all the actual videos of our street performances.
They are also viewable from the performances themselves directly.