Emmanuel Eggermont

Graduated of the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers, with a tangible taste for the visual arts and architecture, Emmanuel Eggermont develops his projects at L’Anthracite (Lille). In his singular pieces, images with expressionist resonances rub shoulders with more performative tones and abstract dance with technical and aesthetic rigour. From his two years spent in South Korea, and his work with Raimund Hoghe, he has drawn a focus on the essential.
As artist in residence at L’L (an experimental structure for research in the performing arts, Brussels) from 2011 to 2016, he devised several pieces there, including Vorspiel (2013), a play for which he invited musicians, actors and visual artists to join in the performance. In 2014, he took part in Sujets à Vif at the Avignon Festival. Emmanuel Eggermont was awarded the Beaumarchais-SACD grant for the creation of Strange Fruit, created at the FRAC Alsace in 2015, a project of artistic cross-views based on a recently discovered historical archive. In 2017, he began a cycle of ‘chromato-choreographic’ studies with Πόλις (Polis), five dancers from different backgrounds question the ‘city’ in a black monochrome.
La Méthode des Phosphènes (2019), a Gymnase|CDCN commission for young audiences, questions the perception of colour, and Aberration (2020), a solo piece examining personal reconstruction in a monochrome white. All Over Nymphéas (2022) completes this study. In the image of this hypnotic Garden of Eden, created from scratch by Claude Monet, she questions the notion of ‘motif’. The motif as a pictorial element and as a reason for action in these troubled times. Emmanuel Eggermont is currently associate artist at the Centre Chorégraphique de Tours (2019-2023).
Source: L’Anthracite