In the world of music, an étude is a short composition designed to explore and practice the possibilities of a particular technique. The choreography presented by Cassiel Gaube at the French Academy - Villa Medici as part of the Romaeuropa Festival stems from the Belgian dancer and choreographer’s passion for the vocabulary of House Dance, around which he has built his artistic practice in recent years and whose potential variations and intersections with hip hop, clubbing moves, and contemporary dance he explores as if it were a score to be broken down and reinvented.
Graduating in 2016 from P.A.R.T.S. - Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels, Cassiel Gaube is a prominent figure on the Northern European dance scene. As a performer, he has worked with choreographers Manon Santkin and Benjamin Vandewalle, as well as multidisciplinary artist Fabrice Samyn. Since 2020, he has been collaborating with dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, who asked Gaube to create some material for her Broadway stage version of West Side Story, which was made in collaboration with Ivo Van Hove.
Inspired by the works of Bruno Beltrao and William Forsythe, Soirée d’etudes develops as a “pas de deux à troix” or choreographic étude to the sounds of the music most loved by Gaube. Drawing from recognized moves, the dancer looks for variations of these steps and inventive ways of articulating them. This common knowledge allows people to read each other’s movements. Together with dancers who have experience in street dance, Gaube seeks to reveal the literacy that this practice requires and conveys.
Photo Romaeuropa Festival © Marc Domage
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