#belgian dance

“5 Seasons”

Choreography and Performance: Katie Vickers, Benjamin Pohlig and Gasper Piano

It took me longer than normal to write this, because I had to think it through more than I normally would. Not the dancing – that was immediate, sometimes visceral and always intellectual. But what Jan Martens achieved, and whether I agreed with it. The stated premise is ambitious. 13 forgotten female voices reclaimed from patriarchal silence (by a man, but let’s let that pass). Ruby Elzy’s 1935…