© Pauline Arnaud
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8th of august,
Eli undergoes his first racial profiling.
Immersed in the memory of this mundane but violent event, we discover what the first procedures of an oppressive system are.
In this first solo, the choreographer was able to transform the systemic violence he experienced into a strong and unique performative material developed with the help of the De Caelo technique. This technique, conceptualized by the artist himself, consists in leaving an important place to emotional intelligence, situated knowledge and improvisation. But it also calls on the tools of astrology, the sky charts and to perceive how the stars can inform us about our bodies.
Credits
Choreography, dramaturgy, interpretation, concept Eli Mathieu-Bustos
Lighting design Maureen Béguin / Christophe Deprez
Technical coordination Christophe Deprez
Sound design Loucka Fiagan
Executive Production Anaku
Outside eyes Daniel Blange, Gubbay, Eric Cyuzuzo Niyibizi, Maria Dogahe, Nabil Ennasouh, Jazz Guyot, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld, Brandon Kano Butare, Luka Katangila, Krystel Khoury, Ana Kuch, Soto Labor, Sophie Sénécaut, Liza Siche-Jouan, Milø Slayers, Marie Umuhoza.
Partners and support DeSingel (Antwerp -BE), La Balsamine (Brussels, BE), Kaaitheater (Brussels, BE), WIPCOOP/MESTIZOARTSPLATFORM (BE), BEMYGUEST NETWORK FOR EMERGING PRACTICES including : La Bellone — Brussels (BE), Kaaitheater — Brussels (BE), Kunstencentrum BUDA — Kortrijk (BE), Belluard Bollwerk — Freiburg (CH),Théâtre Saint-Gervais — Geneva (CH), Materiais Diversos — Lisboa (PT), MDT – Stockholm (SE), Artsadmin — London (GB), Parallèle — Marseille (FR), ICI-CCN — Montpellier (FR), Théâtre de la Bastille — Paris (FR), Short Theatre — Roma (IT), Tanzquartier — Wien (AT)
Eli Mathieu-Bustos
Eli Mathieu-Bustos (1998) is a dancer-performer whose bodily virtuosity allows him to transcend his different political identities. Out of these identities his dances are born.
He is both a trained and an autodidact dancer. He started out with ballet at the age of five and went on with jazz and breakdance classes. Until the age of seventeen he navigated between different styles such as new-style, poppin, krump, contemporary dance etc. Self-taught and passionate about improvisation, his sources of inspiration are found both in institutionally recognised dance canons such as German expressionist dance and butō and in dance styles associated societally with subculture such as dancehall and house.
After high school he went on to study Performing Arts. These studies allowed him to discover theater and cinema, two disciplines that can be found in his current work. Eli also studied choreographic studies at the Manufacture in Aurillac and has a Master’s degree in the Institute of Arts and Choreography (ISAC) obtained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. For two years he has been working on combining his practice of astrology and dance in order to create a new improvisation technique. This technique, which he calls De Caelo, is based on a methodology of movement writing open to all canons and dance styles with the only hierarchy of value being the emotion it transmits to the spectator.
Eli Mathieu-Bustos has also collaborated with other artists and houses such as Marco Torrice (Melting Pot collective: DANSAND! 2021 festival Ostend and Re-creature festival at La Palenda in Rome), Marco Arriola (CRUCE project 2021-2022), Patric Chiha (Film: The Beast in the Jungle 2021 ) the Antwerp Opera (trailer of the 2022-2023 season) and Milø Slayers (play: DEMONstatio 2021-2022).
During 2021-2022 he performed solos in many venues in Brussels at mostly queer and FUBU events. He has danced for Decoratelier (Africa is/in the future 2021 and 2022 edition), LDC, Nova, Crazy Circle and Fatsabbats festival among others.