Apology

Apology

In the first half of 2010, dance sections and sketches were created for the performance Apology, which was originally planned for that year. After deliberations between directors, artistic management and the international agent for United-C, it was decided this summer to delay the premiere to 2011, to ensure the performance cycle WHO by United-C could be profiled accordingly.

Apology takes the roving human as a departure point. To clarify: United-C is not going to steer or even guide this human being. On the contrary: we encourage him/her to find themselves in the unknowns, dare to stay there and along the way to be both worried as well as comforted.
Apology is an ‘apology’, but above all a confession which carries an apology. Centre-stage: the vulnerable human, who also turns out to be an omnipotent being.
Themes such as desire, beauty and imagination serve as a basis, but Apology also researches the individual with microscopic precision.

Choreographer Pauline Roelants, who will put her signature to Apology, wants to dig deeper into her idiom of dance, and strengthen the synergy with the image. Her expressive and at times explosive dance idiom lets itself be described as ‘the power of movement brought back to its essence’. In order to achieve that Roelants ‘bones’ dance down to the fascination for the body and the strength of the performer. Her departure points are at all times the qualities, beauties and vulnerabilities of the dancers. As parting shot she alludes to the golden rule of ‘no uniformity but individuality’