Soleil Constant – Louise Baduel

Belgium

The performance will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.

Louise Baduel invited Pascale Gigon (an iconic dancer from Brussels) to return on stage after 20 years. Together, they question what it means to age for women in our society and reveal with gentleness and sisterhood all their fragility and contradictions to address our relationship to the world, to the passing of time and the anxiety of an inevitable end.
Through movement and textile materials, they create a visual and colorful universe that evokes both the strength of nature and the artificiality of our lifestyles. Can we overcome fatalism and its corollary of climate inaction and replace it with optimism and collective action?
Between fiction and reality, Pascale and Louise shake up our habits with derision and reason.

Credits
Choreography: Louise Baduel
Interpretation: Louise Baduel, Pascale Gigon
Text: collective writing with the valuable help of Sébastien Fayard, Léa Zilber and Donatien de le Court
Voice over: Léa Zilber
Costume designer: Leslie Ferré
Scenography: Donatien de le Court
Music: Marc Mélia
Light: Meri Ekola

Duration: 50 min.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/7iIrU_2Avg4

The piece has been presented at Brussels at the Brigittines 23>27.04.2024 : https://www.brigittines.be/fr/saison-2023-24/soleil-constant and at the festival PROPULSE: https://propulsefestival.be

Louise Baduel

Louise Baduel is a dancer-choreographer based in Brussels. After studying music and dance at the Aix-en-Provence Conservatory, she joined Rosella Hightower’s school in Cannes, then continued her studies at P.A.R.T.S. and at the ULB where she obtained a master’s degree in Performing Arts. It is in this context that Louise created a solo entitled L.BRUISSE. In 2013, she co-founded the company System Failure with Leslie Mannès and together they set up a trilogy: SYSTEM FAILURE in 2013, HUMAN DECISION in 2015 and INITIAL ANATOMY in 2019. In 2021 she created a new solo entitled LOOP AFFECT, in 2024 with Pascale Gigonthey made a duo called SOLEIL CONSTANT and she is currently working on a new show for a young audience, CHROMATIQUE that will be presented in April 25 in Brussels. Her work is distinguished by its multidisciplinary aspect and gives rise to hybrid pieces. Louise attaches great importance to making her choreographic practice accessible to all and try to approach existential or societal themes with simplicity, humor and transparency.