As We Are (Luxembourg) @ Holding Space : PFS5
4 Feb:
Social Media Awareness workshop (closed door)
5 Feb:
Artist Diaries 2.3: Dancing Digital Behaviour (ticketed)
6 Feb:
Filming Movement: workshop for dancers and filmmakers
(registration required)
7 Feb am:
Misinformation Matters: special event for educators and students
(by invitation)
7 Feb pm:
public performance of Shoot the Cameraman (ticketed)
We are delighted to open our Season with As We Are from Luxembourg. Set up by Baptiste Hilbert & Catarina Barbosa, As We Are is a dance company whose inspiration comes from contemporary social matters mainly related to the new behaviors created by the digital age. They aim to create new places of movement by combining choreographic art and latest technological innovation to reveal ourselves as we are. They believe that exchanging daily with others is essential to nurture their creativity and share these ideas. And so we have curated a week of varied engagements for them along with our many amazing partners.
Public Engagements
5 February ’25 | Artist Diaries 2.3: Dancing Digital Behaviour
Glenburn Penthouse
6:30 pm
Registration Fee: Rs. 1000
Co-hosted and presented by Glenburn Culture Club and Pickle Factory Dance Foundation at the Glenburn Penthouse, ‘Artist Diaries’ is an exclusive series centred around an artist’s approach to the creative philosophy that drives their work, and insights into their current projects. This session with As We Are features an unplugged excerpt from Shoot the Cameraman, inviting audiences to closely view how the moving body and the moving camera work together to play with our perceptions. The excerpt will be followed by a conversation with the artists around the themes and process of their work.
6 February ’25 | Filming Movement
workshop for dancers and filmmakers
G. D. Birla Sabhaghar
6:30 pm
Workshop Fee: Rs. 500
This workshop is for dancers and filmmakers, and will introduce participants to the creative techniques the company uses along with discussion on constraints, possibilities and aesthetics. Participants will then be invited to create short movement films in collaboration with each other under the guidance of the company members.
7 February ’25 | Shoot the Cameraman
contemporary dance performance from Luxembourg
G. D. Birla Sabhaghar
7pm
Tickets: Rs. 200, Rs. 300, Rs. 500, Rs. 700
Shoot the Cameraman brilliantly employs contemporary dance and live camera (with the two camerapersons choreographed into the piece) to comment on the relationships between media, power and perceptions. The audience are offered a permanent double reading of the piece and have the opportunity to simultaneously attend a live performance on stage and on screen. Seeing is interactive, personal and supposedly unfalsifiable. But how much of what we see and perceive is directed by a cameraman’s framing? And how does that shape our imaginations and perceptions of reality?
Closed Door
4 February ’25 | Social Media Workshop
a workshop for media students
Venue to be confirmed
11 am
Entry by registration
This workshop is designed specially for media and communication students. Through demonstration and group exercises, participants will be to think about the power of the image and how its use can impact our cultural, political or social judgement of a situation.
7 February ’25 | Misinformation Matters
event for educators and civil society organisations
G. D. Birla Sabhaghar
11 am – 2 pm
This event is designed in collaboration with Alt Ed, and is ideal for educators interested in concepts around countering false narratives, navigating misinformation & examining bias.
The event will include:
- A performance of Shoot the Cameraman by As We Are, Luxembourg
- A discussion addressing the topic of false news & misinformation in classrooms & living rooms from Luxembourg to India by Directors of As We Are, Pickle Factory Dance Foundation & an Indian journalist
- Alt Ed presentation outlining pathways forward – knowledge mindset, pedagogy & transactional skill
- Case studies and project displays from schools trained by Alt Ed
Please email creativeprod.picklefactory@gmail.com if you would like to attend this event.
India Tour
2 February ’25
Ahmedabad
Natarani Amphiteatre
8:30 pm
9 February ’25
Bangalore
Prestige Centre for Performing Arts
6:30 pm
14 February ’25
Delhi
British Council Theatre
7 pm
16 February ’25
Mumbai
National Centre for Performing Arts
7 pm
MEET THE ARTISTS
Baptiste Hilbert hails from Arlon, a small town in Belgium. He studied dance at the Epsedanse dance school (FR) and continued his training in England, with Verve13, the postgraduate company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds (UK). He completed his studies at the Ballet Junior de Genève (CH). There, for a year, he performed in various well-known repertory choreographic works.
With Catarina Barbosa, he co-founded the AWA As We Are company in Luxembourg, which is subsidised by the Ministry of Culture and the biennial Plate-Forme AWA dance festival. Baptiste also continues to perform freelance for other companies, and works as a production and tour manager and in cultural mediation
Ben Moon is a light & video artist and technician based in London. He works predominantly in live video performance and dance productions. They have performed, exhibited, and toured throughout the UK and Europe.
As a designer, Ben has extensively worked collaboratively with choreographers including Lea Tirabasso, Eva Recaha, Lola Maury and Yukiko Masui amongst others. As well as technical and production with artists including Sharon Eyal, Martin Spangberg and Xenia Aidonopoulou.
Georges Maikel Pires Monteiro trained training at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg before joining the third edition of SEED’s Professional Master program, supervised by the CobosMika Company in Spain. While in Spain, he collaborated with many notable artists there and has also now worked with a diverse range of choreographers, directors, musicians and visual artists across Europe
Georges Maikel has co-choreographed the duet fest alongside dancer and choreographer Piera Jovic and solos such as !MAKi!?. In 2020, he produced the dance video It Gets Better, which won the Dance from Home contest. He has also choreographed for feature films such as Stargazer by Luxembourgish director Christian Neuman and La Cache by Swiss director Lionel Baier.
Piera is a dancer and physical theatre performer based in Luxembourg. She particularly enjoys interdisciplinary formats in live performance, and the complementary nature of the arts in general. A professional since 2015, she devotes herself to her career as a dancer and stage performer, but also places great emphasis on artistic collaboration, whether in the form of an outside view or choreographic consultancy for theatrical productions. She is an active member of the multidisciplinary artists’ collective MASKéNADA, as well as ASPRO, the association for professionals in the performing arts. She also counts the Trois C-L Maison Pour la Danse among her first partners.
Pedro Barbosa is Portuguese videographer and photographer , born and raised in Oporto.
Used to work for production companies and marketing agencies but his desire to work on different projects lead him to work as freelancer for the last few years.
For the last 9 years he has also been working with AWA as photographer, videographer, and in the last 5 years he worked for the company as a performer too, in the piece “Shoot the Cameraman”. Beside this, he works closely with the all the members of the team in the communication process of the company , where he creates multimedia and social network content for AWA communication channels.
His collaboration with AWA relies on the possibilities, that dance and performative art, can achieve in his own creative process as well as in the communication process of the arts.
Tanisha Addicott has trained at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. She has toured nationally and internationally with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures on their production of Romeo + Juliet. Her other credits include working with Sadler’s Wells Young Associate Blue Makwana for their Mixed Bill and the production FOUR, as well as touring nationally with Ballo Arthur Pita’s The Little Match Girl. Has also worked with artists such as Jess and Morgs and Clod Ensemble, and previously worked with artists such as Akram Khan, Ana Maria Lucacui and Matsena Productions at Rambert School.
