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Liminal Harmony is a multidisciplinary performance that brings together dance, visual art, and music in real time. For this production, I am collaborating with Liège-based choreographer and dancer Justine Copette and musicians Peter Geysels and Peter De Koning.

Four artists, a dancer, a visual artist, and two musicians, allow themselves to be completely guided by the energy, emotion, and intuitive impulses of the moment. In connection with one another, they evolve from four separate characters into a single character, sharing their emotions, their history, their feelings, their knowledge of one another, and their behavior. In this way, the boundaries between the different disciplines gradually blur until a total unity emerges in which it is no longer clear who the musicians are, who the dancer is, and who the visual artist is.

 

During the performance, a large artwork is created in the energy of the moment, with the dancer’s movements contributing to the final result. The work below, *Souldrift*, has its origins in this performance. The canvas was first used during the performance, after which I continued working on it in my studio in a single, concentrated session, guided by the dance and paint traces that had emerged during the performance. The result is not a representation, but a residue of action: a work that carries within it the movement, the energy, and the traces of the moment.

The monumental scale of the work invites the viewer’s body and confronts it with the stored power within the canvas. The rough surface of the untreated canvas carries a physical energy; the materials adhere unevenly, seep into the fibers, and leave scars. What remains is not a choreography, but a condensation of intensity. The dancer has vanished, but the power remains unmistakably present.

 

 

 

A central motif in the performance is the dancer’s white costume, which gradually transforms into a living painting during the show. It thus becomes the symbol of a work of art created entirely in the moment. Through this metamorphosis, the dancer herself becomes part of the artwork, blurring the boundaries between body, canvas, and sound. By the end, the distinctions disappear entirely: artist and artwork, dancer and painter, movement and music merge into a single whole.