
Eli Mathieu-Bustos (1998) is a dancer-performer whose bodily virtuosity allows him to transcend his different political identities. Out of these identities his dances are born. He is both a trained and an autodidact dancer. He started out with ballet at...
Have a Safe Travel tells the story of a train ride. It could have been an ordinary trip, until three police officers stopped Eli Mathieu-Bustos and subjected him to his first racial profiling. Immersed in the memory of this event, which is as banal as it is violent, we discover what the first procedures of an oppressive system are all about.
In this first solo, the choreographer was able to transform the systemic violence he experienced into a strong and unique performative material developed with the help of the De Caelo technique. This technique, conceptualized by the artist himself, consists in leaving an important place to emotional intelligence, situated knowledge and improvisation. But it also calls on the tools of astrology, the sky charts and to perceive how the stars can inform us about our bodies.
CHOREOGRAPHY, DRAMATURGY, INTERPRETATION, CONCEPT: ELI MATHIEU-BUSTOS // LIGHTING DESIGN: MAUREEN BÉGUIN / CHRISTOPHE DEPREZ // TECHNICAL COORDINATION: CHRISTOPHE DEPREZ // SOUND DESIGN: LOUCKA FIAGAN // EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION: ANAKU // OUTSIDE EYES: DANIEL BLANGE, GUBBAY, ERIC CYUZUZO NIYIBIZI, MARIA DOGAHE, NABIL ENNASOUH, JAZZ GUYOT, ALEKSANDRA JANEVA IMFELD, BRANDON KANO BUTARE, LUKA KATANGILA, KRYSTEL KHOURY, ANA KUCH, SOTO LABOR, SOPHIE SÉNÉCAUT, LIZA SICHE-JOUAN, MILØ SLAYERS, MARIE UMUHOZA // PARTNERS & SUPPORT: DESINGEL (ANTWERP – BE), LA BALSAMINE (BRUSSELS, BE), KAAITHEATER (BRUSSELS, BE), WIPCOOP/MESTIZOARTSPLATFORM (BE), BEMYGUEST NETWORK FOR EMERGING PRACTICES INCLUDING: LA BELLONE — BRUSSELS (BE), KAAITHEATER — BRUSSELS (BE), KUNSTENCENTRUM BUDA — KORTRIJK (BE), BELLUARD BOLLWERK — FREIBURG (CH), THÉÂTRE SAINT-GERVAIS — GENEVA (CH), MATERIAIS DIVERSOS — LISBOA (PT), MDT – STOCKHOLM (SE), ARTSADMIN — LONDON (GB), PARALLÈLE — MARSEILLE (FR), ICI-CCN — MONTPELLIER (FR), THÉÂTRE DE LA BASTILLE — PARIS (FR), SHORT THEATRE — ROMA (IT), TANZQUARTIER — WIEN (AT)



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Eli Mathieu-Bustos (1998) is a dancer-performer whose bodily virtuosity allows him to transcend his different political identities. Out of these identities his dances are born. He is both a trained and an autodidact dancer. He started out with ballet at...
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