Facing Familiar Faces is a dance-theatre duet directed by Brandon Lagaert in collaboration with contemporary dancer Sara Angelucci and urban dancer Alessandro Ottaviani.
The duet explores the fragile nature of a family's collective memory visualised through the relationship of two siblings' different perspectives looking back at their childhood. This powerful family bond is further visualised through the scenography’s fragmented pieces of the parental home.
The physicality as a core element is merged with an easily distinguishable narrative structure, during which the borders between dance and theatre are erased through a multitude of different transitions.
After the death of their parents
two siblings go back to their parental home.
Sifting through their belongings
they recall nostalgic stories and cheerful anecdotes,
until they are confronted with an inexplicable enigma
Will they form a closer bond or will this experience put a rift between them forever?
Concept and direction Brandon Lagaert
Performance and creation: Alessandro Ottaviani, Sara Angelucci
Sound design: Brandon Lagaert
Production assistant: Maria Pokorska
Outside eye: Milan Emmanuel, Chantal Kohlmeyer
Trailer: Brandon Lagaert
Pictures: Briek Lesage
Production: KAIHO
Co-production: Detours Festival, Studio Pro Arte & Seoul International Choreography Festival
Residency: Studio Pro Arte, Wolubilis, Studio Joji, Peeping Tom Studio, Studio Garcia Lorca
With the help and support of: Detours Festival & Milan Emmanuel, Studio Pro Arte, & Chantal Kohlmeyer, Studio Joji, Seoul International Choreography Festival, Korea Dance Abroad & Sin Ae Park, Culture Moves Europe and the Goethe-Institut
