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  • Sunday 15:15 — 16:15

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Kunsthumaniora Brugge on stage

Ine Garré & Gwen Hamerlijnck

For this performance, the dance teachers of the dance department of Kunsthumaniora Brugge worked with the students of 3, 4 and 6 dance separately.

Together with the dancers of 6HD, Ine Garré created the piece “The Fall. The piece addresses the inevitable cycle of life. It is about survival in a world that is constantly changing, where the body is caught in a tension between decay and reconstruction. In this in-between space, we find ourselves at the intersection of what was and what is yet to come.

Together with the dancers of 3HD, Gwen Hamerlynck created the piece “Lean on me. Created around the annual theme of “care and cure,” the piece is about the dancers’ constant harmony and togetherness. They trust, support and lean on each other literally and figuratively.

The piece ‘Function/Malfunction’ by Gwen ism the dancers of 4HD is about the impersonal and distant nature of today’s society. Everyone must always be “on” and expected to function fantastically all the time. We are almost programmed like robots. Contacts are fleeting and impersonal. How do we discover each other’s human side again?

You will also be able to see a fraction of some of our dancers’ own creations. Some 5th and 6th years will present their mini-GIP or GIP and some 3rd years will present self-created solos. Developing our own work and personality is a high priority in the dance department. The dancers are given tools in the classes to be creative themselves and develop their own dance language.

Kunshumaniora Dance: When you choose to study dance, dancing is in your blood. A passion. It even leans toward an obsession. Students from an early age have a goal in mind and are bitten by the dance bug. It’s not just a whim. It’s not just let’s test out this dance education and see where it will take us. You get up with it and you go to bed with it. You spend every spare moment working on your body and training it. And, to achieve anything in dance, you need a good training schedule, a repetitive and disciplined life and you work yourself into a sweat. You really have to have a lot to choose to physically ‘give up’ so many hours and give up so many hours of your free time to do so. And to actually get a kick out of this renunciation. You don’t do this just to do something. You do it because you really need it. Because it is and always will be your passion.

This unique dance course is part of the Academy Kunsthumaniora Brugge, the only homogeneous Kunsthumaniora in the province of West Flanders. The school is located in the heart of Bruges and classes take place in the historic buildings of Katelijnestraat and the location BLOSO sport Vlaanderen. In addition to the DANS course, the school offers other courses such as Audiovisual Training, Artistic Training, Visual and Architectural Arts & Word Art – Drama. General subjects and Art subjects go hand in hand in all directions. Kunsthumaniora Brugge is a vibrant progressive school where interdisciplinary work is carried out and connections are sought between the various subjects and directions during project weeks.

These connections are also sought in the DANS program, led by a strong team, and through these cross-pollinations we arrive at artistic results, performances and shows.

The dance teachers strive to train students to move on to higher education dance, with the belief that a higher education provides the (usually) necessary added value.
Our general direction is contemporary dance with a strong classical foundation.
Students receive a solid basic education in contemporary and classical, with attention to other dance styles as well in order to keep their options wide open. Furthermore, a balance is sought between technical skill, personality and creativity.

Students are motivated to give as much of themselves as possible with the highest possible goal, without losing their sense of realism. The teachers carefully formulate a non-committal advice regarding the subsequent studies (Dancer/Teacher/Choreographer or other studies).

We consider the development of the dancer’s personality very important. As a team, we are open to the needs, questions and difficulties of the students and, to the best of our ability, we assist them with advice and assistance. We want the students to grow not only as dancers, but also as human beings. We test the balance between discipline and freedom: there is room for experimentation by having students create their own work and during the lessons (impro/compo/contemporary/modern) through creation and improvisation assignments.

We strongly believe in the role of guest teachers and choreographers to broaden the view of the dance field. Thus, students have already been able to gain experience with dancers from Eastman, supplementing alongside several guest teachers who work as freelance dancers or choreographers. Variety also ensures that students do not lose the joy of dance; it invites them to work hard with passion for the craft.

The department insists that the students perform well in their general subjects to enable possible further studies in directions other than dance.

Ine Garré (BE, 2000) is a contemporary dance artist who received her bachelor’s degree in Dance Artist from ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands in 2023. She began her career as a dancer at Skånes Dansteater in Sweden, where she worked with choreographers such as Jo Strømgren, Erika Silgoner, Mari Carrasco and Madeleine Månsson. At Skånes Dansteater, she also choreographed and co-directed the dance film “Nornor.” In addition, she was active as a teacher within their community project. Ine performs various roles in social-artistic contexts, including at Overcompany and DEVLOER. She currently dances with Sarah Mck Fife Company in the production “HÆAR,” which will be shown at the OFF Festival in Avignon this summer, and works in various projects as a freelance dancer and creator. In addition, Ine contributes to the dance community as a (guest) teacher at Platform K and Kunsthumaniora Brugge, among others.

Gwen Hamerlynck graduated in 1997 from the Konlijklijke Balletschool Antwerpen and was an intern at Introdans (NL). For years she worked as a freelance dancer in the most diverse productions from dance theater to musical. She is choreographer and founder of her own ‘compagie J’ and founded the dance festival ‘Patchwork dance festival’ in 2022. She is a dance teacher at Kunsthumaniora Brugge.

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