In Love

In Love, an intimate dance and sound performance, plays with the narrative of love and its relationship to time. 

By the end of the 1870s, Eadweard Muybridge was trying to photograph the fastest horse of that time in motion. On the second day of the experiment, a shadow was caught and gave the promise of keeping an unseizable moment for eternity. But what is a moment and what is eternity? And what love has to do with that? That perfect moment, a kiss, the first sight, the first ‘I love you’ that we hear or say… Could they only be just memories, some illusion or a fiction? A story that we keep telling ourselves to convert it into reality? A moment already gone forever once perceived, like the fastest horse in its full speed.

We would like to make of love this one perfect story, but reality is always more complex and beyond our imagination. The contrast between dream and reality translates into a series of fragments and
In Love questions how we construct and stage love.
In Love is about how the heart falls, how it breaks, how it heals and how illusions are torn down.
In Love is a call for tenderness and proximity with the wish to rewind, accelerate and suspend.

KVS face Bahar Temiz collaborated with sound designer Charo Calvo (also a familiar face at KVS) on the performances ICE and PUNKT. Together, they now reprise Temiz’s 2016 solo In Love, working around themes of romance, storytelling, tactility, speed and eternity for a dance and sound performance that takes its inspiration from literature and audiovisual arts.

“But how do you determine the exact moment when a story starts? Everything has always started from the beginning, the first line of the first page of every novel goes back to something that has already happened outside the book. Or the real story is one that starts ten or a hundred pages ahead and everything before is just a prologue. The lives of individuals of the human species form a continuous intertwine, in which every attempt to separate a piece of living that has meaning separately from the rest - for example, the meeting of two people that will become decisive for both of them - must bear in mind that each of them carries with them a fabric of environments made by other people, and that from the meeting will in turn produce other stories that will separate from their common history.”  

- Italo Calvino

Bahar Temiz

Bahar Temiz (1983, Istanbul) studied philosophy at the University of Paris IV – La Sorbonne and dance
at the Artez Dance Academy in the Netherlands. She followed the Ex.e.r.ce 09/10 choreography training at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier and received Danceweb scholarship in 2012 from Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. She obtained a master’s degree in dance from the University of Paris VIII. She worked as a performer with Clément Layes, Superamas and Ivana Müller amongst others. In 2018, Marc Vanrunxt made for her the solo White on White.

Bahar is inspired by literature, philosophy and history. Her works’ are characterised by a strong visual language and a transdisciplinary approach and were presented in Europe, Lebanon and Turkey. She is currently an associate artist of KVS and working on the continuation of the trilogy: ICE - PUNKT - CONCRETE.

Charo Calvo

Charo Calvo (1960, Madrid) studied physics at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, she was an active member of the theatre company of the university and became a dancer after an unexpected workshop given by an American dancer of Martha Graham Company in Madrid in 1980. She arrived in 1987 to Brussels as a founding member of the dance company Ultima Vez directed by Wim Vandekeybus. She started her studies on Electro Acoustic Composition at Conservatoire de Mons. Since then she has collaborated as composer and sound designer with many Belgian and international dance and theatre companies as Ultima Vez, Les Ballets C de la B, Jan Fabre Troubleyn, De Roovers, Haugen Productions, Lotte van den Berg, Iztok Kovac etc.

Inspiration

Performances by and with Bahar Temiz

Credits

CONCEPT & PERFORMANCE / CONCEPT & JEU / CONCEPT & PERFORMANCE Bahar Temiz IN SAMENWERKING MET / EN COLLABORATION AVEC / IN COLLABORATION WITH Charo Calvo GELUIDSONTWERP / CRÉATION SONORE / SOUND DESIGN Charo Calvo LICHTONTWERP / CONCEPTION LUMIÈRE / LIGHT DESIGN Michael Janssens SCULPTUUR / SCULPTURE Patrick Nys KOSTUUMS / COSTUMES Ritter Bitter, Lieve Meeussen GELUID & PROJECTIE / SON & PROJECTION / SOUND & PROJECTION Bram Moriau TONEELMEESTER / RÉGISSEUR / STAGE MANAGER Carlo Bourguignon PRODUCTIELEIDING / DIRECTEUR DE PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION MANAGER Robin Hectors EXTERNE BLIK / REGARD EXTÉRIEUR / OUTSIDE EYES Moya Michael, Smaranda Olcese, Marc Vanrunxt MET DANK AAN / REMERCIEMENTS À / THANKS TO Dora Almeleh, Margareta Andersen, Mesut Arslan, Arda Ateş, Michael De Cock, Valerie De Visscher, Ceylan Dökmen, Jonas Rutgeerts, Metin Sakin, Philippe Vandendriessche PRODUCTIE / PRODUCTION KVS & Platform 0090 COPRODUCTIE / COPRODUCTION Kunstcentrum Buda, APAP – Advancing Performing Arts Projects RESIDENTIES / RÉSIDENCES / RESIDENCIES De Feniks Walpurgis (Mortsel, Belgium), Maison de la Culture d’Amiens – Centre de création et de production (France), Kunstcentrum Buda, Centre National de la Danse (Paris, France), Saint Joseph High School, Salt Galata (Istanbul, Turkey)

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