Concept/Artistic Director Marco Torrice
Dancers Eli Mathieu Bustos, Joachim Noël, Luiz Felipe Lucas, Naama Shoshan Fogiel Levin, Tijen Lawton Goosen, Jonathan Tshimanga
Music composer/Djs Thomas Turine
Light design/Vj Jorge Guevara Larrotta
Stylist adviser/Clothes designer Miguel Olmeda
Collaborations & Supporters 2021 KunstZ, Workspacebrussels, Kaap, KaaiStudios, Les Brigittines, Artesis AP Hogeschool Antwerpen, ISAC | Institut Supérieur des Arts et Chorégraphies
Melting Pot is a constantly evolving practice, a venue for encounter, challenge and exchange within which dancers with different styles and from different cultural backgrounds can engage in dialogue and unleash such varied emotions and feelings as joy, hatred, sensuality and social frustration. Midway between a performance and a recreational space, Melting Pot is a hybrid and immersive device combining different performative practices. The performance is based on improvisation, the work's dance forms emerge as the product of a shared experience rather than of a choreographer's imposition. On stage, a mixed group of professional, amateur, self-taught and academy-taught dancers range from contemporary dance to hip-hop, freestyle and voguing. The work is accompanied by a dj set whose function is to facilitate their exchange, creating a feeling of familiarity by linking different musical cultures and styles to each other.
Marco Torrice is a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer based in Brussels.
His interest in self-taught dancers and the languages of movement encapsulating stories and content that are different from dominant Western culture such Voguing, Krump and Hip-Hop Freestyle, has given him an approach to choreography which combines various different modes of performance.
At re-creatures Melting Pot is a moment of immersion in a dialogue and in the encounter between different dance styles and disciplines.