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• Layers of Skin

  

  Layers of Skin is a multilayered performance event with bold choreography by Belgian/English choreographer Filip Van Huffel and his Retina Dance Company with live music by Joris Vanvinckenroye and his acclaimed Belgian chamber rock ensemble Aranis.

• La Lutte

  

  French for The Wrestle La Lutte is an arena where two male dancers challenge their physicality while they wrestle to communicate with themselves, one another and the world around them in a bold, bright fighting arena.

• Antipode

  

  Powerful and energetic movement choreographed by Filip Van Huffel is set to a soundscore by Belgian composer and double bass player Joris Vanvinckenroye.

• Retina Education Projects (2007-08)

  

  Check out some examples of Retina’s education work

• This is not a body (2007)

  

  This is not a body is the second part in the triptych that Eleven Stories for the body, distance to the soul initiated last year. It takes its inspiration, not from text this time, but from visual art, developing surrealist themes through both creation and performance. (15 minute excerpt)

• The boy who never grows old (2006)

  

  The boy who never grows old is based on the period of growth in a graduate dancers life. A reflection of growing up in a world where life, love and work are driven by speed. Emerging from the cushion of childhood into a world of decisions and responsibility. (10 minute excerpt)

• 11 Stories for the body (2005)

  

  Eleven stories for the body, distance to our soul: a physical translation of eleven impressions/expressions about the body in choreography, film and music for six dancers/performers. (15 minute excerpt)

• Me:Mo (2003)

  

  Me:Mo was a work inspired by memories of places and people. Live music from Jules Maxwell and film by Lucy Baldwyn. (excerpt)

• Freeze (2003)

  

  Freeze, a Dance for the Camera BBC/ACE production with director Lucy Baldwyn and composer Jules Maxwell, a beautifully serene film screened on BBC2 in March 2003.

• X: (2002)

  

  In 2002 Retina created X:,: abstracting our obsessions with game shows in TV culture. (excerpt)

• Toxin (2001)

  

  A work of contrasting purity in two halves, two natural poisons played against each other - INKT and FUNGUS. (excerpt)

• Oxygenius (2000)

  

  Oxygenius, a visually stunning quartet that explores the human reactions when the body is starved of oxygen. (excerpt)

• Hard Shoulder (1999)

  

  Hard Shoulder, a hard-hitting, brash, funky quintet with live music. (excerpt)