Performances
Upcoming performances & previous works.
To see a full list of performances, please contact me for my CV.
White Walls & Electricity #24.2
31 Aug 2024 at 20hr @ Eden Studios*****
Flock, Flock, Flock
27 July 2024
27 July 2024 at 17:00 @ the Goethehof, 1120 Vienna, Austria
Bal Moderne / Europalia – Brussels Bolero
Place de la Bourse/Beursplein
New choreography by Maria Clara Villa Lobos to Ravel’s Bolero interpreted by Angelique Kidjo, plus Codessa by George Kumalo – led by yours truly. Join us to learn the dances, even if you have two left feet!
Flash Mob Hand Wash
WEX – Wallonie Expo S.A.
Parc d’activités du WEX
Rue des Deux Provinces, 1
Created & led by Jordi L. Vidal
The Flash Mob is intended for everyone who will to share a moment of creativity and fun together. For this, no need to be a professional dancer or have any training!
Les Ménestrels Itinérents du Brass
1 July /juillet 2023 15-19hr
Le Brass polyphonique choir is on the move! Like the wandering minstrels of old, we will travel, but by metro & tram in St Gilles & Forest for the festival Park Poétik. Maybe you will be on the right tram at the right time & get a surprise! We finish with concerts in Brass at 17hr & 18:30 at Bal Populaire de Forest. (St Denis)
FR: La chorale polyphonique du Brass se mettre en route! Comme ménestrels itinérants, nous allons voyager, mais en metro et tram à St Gilles & Forest dans le cadre du festival Park Poétik. Peut-être vous êtes dans le bon tram au bon moment – surprise! Nous finisons avec des concerts au Brass 17hr & 18:30 au Bal Populaire de Forest. (St Denis)
Concept & organisation: Susanne Bentley
Conductor: Isabelle Loisin
Song Poétik
9 June/juin 2023 17:30
Come learn the new Park Poétik anthem “Song Poétik” and the dance that goes with it! We are part of the event Mini Fête’Art. The dance moves are choreographed by Mami Kitagawa & myself. We will show you how – be part of the flash mob!
FR: Venez apprendre la nouvelle chanson de Park Poétik “Song Poétik” & la danse que va avec! Nous sommes une partie de Mini Fête’Art. les moves sont chorégraphié par Mami Kitagawa & moi même. Nous allons vous montrer comment faire – êtr partie du flash mob!
Song Concept & organisation: Papis & Mami, plus musicians & danseurs poétikiens.nnes.
Performance Fred Treffel & Susanne Bentley
Performance Fred Treffel & Susanne Bentley
Ik & den Théo/Moi & le Théo Bal Moderne
19 April/avril 2023 15-16:00
Mini D Festival @ Théâtre Marni
Bal Moderne with kids music geniuses Ik & den Théo/Moi & le Théo, and my partner in dance Denis Robert! Let’s dance! More info
Les Ménestrels Itinérents du Brass
16 July /juillet 2022 17-18:00
Le Brass polyphonique choir is on the move! Like the wandering minstrels of old, we will travel, but by metro & tram in St Gilles & Forest for the festival Park Poétik. Maybe you will be on the right tram at the right time & get a surprise!
FR: La chorale polyphonique du Brass se mettre en route! Comme ménestrels itinérants, nous allons voyager, mais en metro et tram à St Gilles & Forest dans le cadre du festival Park Poétik. Peut-être vous êtes dans le bon tram au bon moment – surprise!
Concept & organisation: Susanne Bentley
Conductor: Isabelle Loisin
Flock, Flock, Flock
Bal Moderne @ Tutti Frutti 25 Years
12 June/juin 2022 @ Muntpunt 15:45 – 16:30
A mini-bal as part of Tutti Frutti Language School for Kids’ 25 year celebrations.
@ See U 227 Avenue de la Couronne, 1050 Ixelles.
Registration: https://tutti-frutti.be/25-ans/
Rītaha
15 February/février 2022 6:00 am – 9:30 am GMT+1
Live – Auckland, New Zealand & online
Touch Compass celebrates our 25th anniversary with /rītaha/!
/rītaha/ celebrates the 25th anniversary of Touch Compass.
/rītaha/ is a performing arts festival of digital works, tactile installations, improvised and choreographed dance, innovative theatre and thrilling aerial performance, featuring new work from the multi-award-winning artists Lusi Faiva, Rodney Bell and Suzanne Cowan, as well as showcasing many other fantastic established and emerging artists.
/rītaha/ aims to honour accessibility as well as art. The event will have sign language interpretation; live audio description through headsets; theatre performance incorporating audio description into the script; braille programs for a seated theatre piece; accessible signage; haptic elements; gender neutral toilets; and to ensure everyone can access the event, /rītaha/ will be free/pay-what-you-can.
Click here to see the incredible performances taking place as part of our celebration!
I am performing as part of the Wai/Rua installation.
Magnetik Poétik @ Muntpunt
29 January / janvier 2022 @ Muntpunt 11:30 – 18hr
Are you a poet and you don’t even know it? Vous êtes un poét sans le savoir? U bent een poëte zonder het al te weten? Vrijdag/Friday/vendredi 28 @ Muntpunt – come and try! Venez tester! Kom proberen!
Muntpunt: Munt 6, 1000 Brussels
D-MARCHE
31 July – 2021, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15am
Parc Duden/Dudenpark, Forest/Vorst
durée -/+ 1h30✩ GRATUIT.
Départ au bas de Parc de Forest (roulotte Parc Poétik)
7:45, 8:30, 9:15
RESERVATION NEEDED ► https://www.universe.com/events/d-marche-tickets-QK4CFBMirror
20 sept – 2 oct 2021, 20-1hr & 6-9hr
Mirror : projecting @ Pianofabriek vitrine
Rue du Fort/Fortstraat, St Gilles/St Gillis
A look into the world of different performers during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020.
Een blik in de wereld van verschillende Performers tijdens de Covid-19 Lockdown van 2020.
Un regard dans le monde de differents performeur durant le Lockdown Covid-19 de 2020.
A project by/van/de Kasper Dumon
in collaboration met/ avec / with: Susanne Bentley, Douglas Becker, Anne Charlotte Bisoux, Miguel Do Vale, Sugar Love, Daphné Robin, Sander Tas
Magnetik Poétik
Saturdays/ zaterdags/ samedis 3 july - 21 aug 2021, 14 - 18hr
public spaces in St Gilles/St Gillis & Forest/Vorst
True to its motto "Everyone's a poet and they don't even know it", Magnetik Poétik invites you to get started with urban poetry!
Every Saturday you can find us at a different location in Sint-Gilles or Forest.
We will be prepared with magnetic word boxes in different languages and participatory poetry trees.
Try it for yourself, unleash your creativity in Dutch, French, Arabic, English, Spanish or Portuguese between 2 pm and 5 pm, and after this let the Blind Dates surprise you!
Magnetik Bind Dates are literally meetings between improv artists, who have never worked together before, performing with each other based on the word creations of the day…
Think dialogues between slammers, musicians, rappers and dancers from different disciplines (urban & contemporary).
This project focuses on improvisation, communication, risk and lots of fun!
Concept: Susanne Bentley
Scenography: Marzia Dalfini
Co-curation & MC Blind Dates: Susanne Bentley & Milan Emmanuel (Detours Festival).
Flash Mob Hand Wash
Created & led by Jordi L. Vidal
The Flash Mob is intended for everyone who will to share a moment of creativity and fun together. For this, no need to be a professional dancer or have any training!
Mirror
13 - 27 Aug 2020
Mirror : projecting @ recyclart & vk vitrine.
A look into the world of different performers during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020.
Een blik in de wereld van verschillende Performers tijdens de Covid-19 Lockdown van 2020.
Un regard dans le monde de differents performeur durant le Lockdown Covid-19 de 2020.
A project by/van/de Kasper Dumon
in collaboration met/ avec / with: Susanne Bentley, Douglas Becker, Anne Charlotte Bisoux, Miguel Do Vale, Sugar Love, Daphné Robin, Sander Tas
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Manchesterstraat 13-15, 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium
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Flock, Flock, Flock
Atelier/performance for parents & children.
11 July/juillet/juli 2020, Parc de Forest
Contact me for more details!
Photo: Cocoparisienne on Pixabay
Past performances
Emboîté
AmouRoumA
Flash Mob
Festival Mouvements de Rue
1 September 18:30 at Place d’Armes, Sedan with Cie. Jordi Vidal
Bal Moderne (St Gilles) – 16 June 2018
Touch Compass 20th Anniversary performance – On Display
2016
Pole Fusion Festival (Brussels)
Tickets: http://www.polefusionfestival.com/ticket-info/
More info/plus d’info: Pole Fusion Festival
Car Free Sunday – Beursschouwburg (Brussels/ Bxls)
18.09.2016 10 & 10.30 – free ’80’s aerobics warm-up led by yours truly! Costumes appreciated
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1250962554946365/
Beursschouwburg
The School of Narrative Dance – student performance Parc Duden (Brussels/Bxls)
13.07.2016, 18-19.30
Parc Duden, Forest/Vorst. Free/gratuit.
Total performance directed by Marinella Senatore, one part directed by me and performed by the students. Bal Moderne at the end for everyone to join in!
Being @ Isadora Festival (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
21.05.2016
:present participle of verb “be” (am, are, was, were); noun – a living organism
This instantly composed solo is based on the rollercoaster of emotions, questions & reflections on life Susanne experienced recently, after close encounters with death. What is left after so much loss? What is gained? How is life coloured indelibly by this experience?
Movement, sound & text are combined in the present moment to create this fleeting, unrepeatable performance, as the present is all we really have.
Live. Love. Life.
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” – Allen Saunders
Bal Moderne© Academy
15.05.2016
16:00 >18:00
GC Ten Weyngaert
Rue des Allieés, Bonagenotenstraat 54, 1190 Vorst
Info 02/340.95.80.
Bal Moderne© is a production of ARENAL/The Tinderbox
Bal Moderne© Academy
14.2.2016
16:00 >18:00
GC Ten Weyngaert
Rue des Allieés, Bonagenotenstraat 54, 1190 Vorst
Info 02/340.95.80.
Bal Moderne© is a production of ARENAL/The Tinderbox
2015
Pole Fusion Festival (Brussels)
Tickets: http://polefusionfestival.com/#tickets (inclu. 10% donation to “Fondation contre le cancer”)
Performing Poetry (Brussels)
Content wise, the framework is performing poetry.
The poem can be visual, spoken word, voice, sound, touch, movement, dance, etc.
Idea for now is to do something with how poetry can be performed.
As a reference this paragraph:
In Chapter 1 we briefly explored Percy Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry, a stirring text on the revolutionary value of poetry. Shelley argues that poetry is an event whose meaning is irreducibly to-come. What makes a poem a poem is that we don’t know what it means yet. Thus poets are “the hierophants of an unapprehended imagination, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.”Poems are “timeless” insofar as they ontologically subtend time itself, opening up hitherto unknown possibilities of meaning and action.
source: Timothy Morton, Realist Magic, Object, Ontology, Causality
free entrance/gratuit/gratis
www.sign6.org
Open Deur Dagen Pianofabriek
Body Rhymes (Vienna)
31 July 2015, 10:00
Body Rhymes is an either partly or fully improvised solo performance that is adapted to the site or context it is performed in- a ‘set’ of spoken word poems in text and movement. The duration is adaptable also to context. This time pole movement is combined with set poems. The context is the ImPulsTanz “Something that Says Something” end of Field Project performance, led/directed by Charmaine LeBlanc & Angélique Willkie.
Venue/ lieu: dancearts studio, Rennweg 79-81, 1030 Vienna
Free/gratuit!
more info
RollerMadness Golden Edition- Beursschouwburg
2 May 2015 – 23:00 – 4:00
Gogo dancing performances during the roller disco, every half hour. With Sarah Cavenaille, Sarah Bleasdale, Maria Clara Villa Lobos & myself.
More info/plus d’info: Beursschouwburg
Ik & den Théo + Bal Moderne (Wolubilis, Brussels)
26 April 2015 – 16:45 – 17:45
Journée Enfants-parents admis! 4éme edition – Bal Moderne dances performed by Maria Clara Villa Lobos & myself.
More info/plus d’info: Ik & den Théo
2014
Ik & den Théo + Bal Moderne (Halle)
29 November 2014 – 17:00
Tournee Mondi’alle – Bal Moderne dances performed by Denis Robert & myself.
More info/plus d’info: Ik & den Théo
Pole Fusion Festival (Brussels)
22 & 23 November 2014 – see website for times
Master of Ceremonies, song/ukulele performances, solo improvisation in contemporary floor work & pole. My Pole Show Girl choreographies performed by Sarahcademy dancers in “Searching for Love”.
Venue/lieu: La Venerie, l’espace Delvaux, Rue Gratès 3 à Watermael-Boifort
Price/Prix: 30 euros per evening
More info/plus d’info: Sarahcademy
Ik & den Théo + Bal Moderne @ Fiesta Mundial (Balen)
28 September 2014 – 15:45
Bal Moderne dances performed by Caroline De Haese & myself;
More info/ plus d’info: Fiesta Mundial
Ik & den Théo + Bal Moderne @ Fortbom (Mortsel)
07 September 2014
Bal Moderne dances performed by Nanya Eslava & myself.
More info/ plus d’info:Fortbom
Body Rhymes @ ImproXchange Festival (Berlin)
9 August 2014 – 20:00
Venue/Lieu: Dock11 Theaterhalle, Kastanienallee 79 / 10435 Berlin
Tickets: €9 – 15 sliding scale
More info/plus d’info: ImproXchange Festival
Jaune Toujours & Ik & den Théo @ Plazey Festival – 15 Jaar Choux de Bruxelles (Brussels)
22 June 2014- 12:15 & 14:00 & 16:00 & 16:30
Bal Moderne dancing & teaching by Maria Clara Villa Lobos & myself.
more info/meer info/plus d’info: Plazey
Searching for Love – Sarahcademy
14 June 2014 – 20:00
Pole Show Girl choreographies & 2 solo performances (floor work, song/ukulele/pole solo) included!
Venue/lieu: La Venerie, l’espace Delvaux, Rue Gratès 3 à Watermael-Boifort
Prix: 15 euros jusqu’au/until 1er juin/june. 18 euros après/after et sur place/on the door.
Réservation par e-mail: sarahcademyteam(at/arobas)gmail.com
Sarahcademy
Pole Show Girl performance @ Pride (Brussels)
17 May 2014 – 19 & 20:00
with Sarahcademy dancers performing on the hour 16 – 22:00.
Website of Pride event 2014
Body Rhymes @ Long Winter: Year Two – Volume Five
7 March 2014 – performances throughout the night in random spaces. Long Winter is a multi-arts event (fine arts, music, performance, dance, film, food) 7pm onwards. Pay what you can entrance, all ages.
Venue: The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto. Info
2013
¡Sensacional! with the Barbatuques
30 Nov 2013 – 20:30
Body percussion & beatbox warm-up act for the Barbatuques with the participation of l’AFEJI, College Jean Zay & l’IEM Van cauvenberghe, body percussionists & beatboxers from Belgium. Led by Annie Deltour, Gaspard Herblot & Jonathan Flandinet.
Salle Dany Boon, Rue Decock, Bray-Dunes, France.
More info/reservations: 4 Ecluses
Body Rhymes @ TDP’13
19 Oct – 19:30 – site-specific version, double-bill programme.
Tipperary Excel Arts Centre, Tipperary, Ireland
Festival programme
Red Night District
with Domenico Giustino, SoloConversations Dance Collective & guests.
5 Oct 2013 – 20:00 – 1:00
Art & Marges, Rue Haut 312 – 314, 1000 Brussels
part of Nuit Blanche
More info
Bal Mobile
15 Sept 2013 – 14 – 19:00
Bal Moderne in different locations in Forest/Vorst – free! For Journées du Patrimoine.
14:00 Wiels
15:30 Parc Dudenpark
16:30 Parc de Forest/Park van Vorst
18:00 Place Saint Antoine/Sint Antoniusvoorplein
Bal Moderne
Bal Moderne@piQniQ Parc Tournay Solvay Park
8 Sept 2013 – 15 – 18:00
Parc Tournay Solvay, 1170 Brussels
in collaboration with PiQNiQBruxelicious
Sarahcademy Pole Dance School open day
13 July/julliet 2013 17 – 22:00
La Chocolaterie, Rue Van Malder, 27 1080 Bruxelles
Metro Beekkant
I’ll present a short contemporary pole choreography taught to my students in the Pole Contact class @ 20:00 – Free! gratuit!
Programme
Kunstenfestival Avant Garden
Body Rhymes solo performance – Spoken word poetry & movement
2 July – 21:00 free/gratuit!
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten
NB Temporary address: Jezusstraat 28, B-2000 Antwerp
max. 10 walk from Antwerpen Centraal station – http://goo.gl/maps/iAqoF
Programme festival Avant Garden
Nen Toffe Dimanche!
So many different people so many different ways of expression!
Multidisciplinary space to produce connection between the multiple activities and people present in the Pianofabriek and outside.
This event it’s open to everybody and it’s free!!
30.06.2013 – 14:00-22:00
14:00 Souk-Souk Soundsystem (tropical grooves) TERRAS
Twists – Very implicated spectators event 1 (workshop; online registration necessary) ELSENOR
Small Steps (breakdance battle) BUENOS AIRES
15:00 Cyclope (Colorbar school projectie) ARENBERG
17:00 “The Noise of Cairo” (screening documentary) ARENBERG
18:00 “Mix It Up” (dans performance + live muziek) TERRAS
This Way^UP students performing + SoloConversations Dance Collective members + musicians improvisation set.
20:30 Les taupes qui boivent du lait (fanfare) TERRAS
+ “La vie est Belge!” (Colorbar installation) ONTHAAL
Zinnomobile (multimediavan met cocktails) TERRAS
Come a Casa (food) ALCANTARA
Rosegarden – Cie. Soit/Hans van den Broek
Public platform for performance research.
9 April 2013, 19-22:00
Workspace Renold, Alléé Verte 1, 1000 Brussels
Evolve – SoloConversations Dance Collective
Full-length new work by SoloConversations Dance Collective with musicians Evgeny Makarov, Takie K (electric guitar) & Christophe Lagnaux (percussion).
Dates:
1 March 2013, 10:30 – CC Molenbeek (Brussels) – Entry (day) Rue Mommaerts, 4, 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
2 March 2013, 20:00 – CC Molenbeek – Danseurs en Transit (shared programme) – Entry (evening) Chaussée de Merchtem 67, 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
5 March 2013, 14:00 – CC Jacques Franck (Brussels)
Festival Ici et D’ailleurs – Chaussée de Waterloo, 94 1060 Bruxelles
5 March 2013, 20:00 – CC Jacques Franck
6 March 2013, 20:00 – CC Jacques Franck
2012
Bal Moderne- personeelsfeest voor Stad Gent
22/09/2012 16:00, 19:00 Sint-Pietersabdij, Gent
Parc Bal Moderne Park
Mont des Arts, 1000 Brussels
Bal Moderne in collaboration with PiQNiQBruxelicious with the support of Bruxelles -Environnement – Leefmilieu-Brussel
SoloConversations @ Cirque@Taque
Date: 11/08/2012, 17:40 & 19:40
@ Festival Cirque@Taque, Ekeren, Belgium
Bal Moderne Deltebre Dansa
Date: 7/7/2012 20:00
@ Festival Deltebre Dansa, Catalunya, Spain.
Parc Bal Moderne Park
Parc Tournay Solvay, 1170 Brussels
in collaboration with PiQNiQBruxelicious with the support of Bruxelles -Environnement – Leefmilieu-Brussel
SoloConversations with guests Niria Martinez Barbieri & Aude Cartoux
18/05/2012 12:00-13:30
invited by Bourse de la Création du Festival des Arts Forains “Namur en Mai 2012”
@ Place D’Armes, 5000 Namur, Belgium
Bal Moderne + Bal Populaire + DJ
Date: 27/04/2012
Bal Moderne for Mois de la Danse
26 February 2012, 15:00
Location: Maison de la Culture Famenne-Ardenne, Chaussée de l’Ourthe, 74 – 6900 Marche, Ardennes.
Reservations : 084 32 73 86