CON-front

50fifty dance company - Solange Theys

  • Performance
  • Wandeling

Date

27.09.2025 00:00

RESERVATION REQUIRED

Location

Start walk on the dike in Oostend
AlbertI promendade 52
8400 Oostende

Prepare yourself for a unique walking performance that does not shy away from confrontation. In unexpected places in the streets, on the iconic dike and even with the sand between your toes on the beach of Ostend, you will become part of short, powerful dance interventions.

CON-front is not a passive viewing experience. It is a direct dialogue. The dancers seek interaction, break through the everyday routine of public space and make you think with every movement. What do you see? What do you feel? What boundaries are sought and perhaps crossed?

A carefully mapped out walk connects the various performances, giving you time to process impressions and view the city with different eyes. The experience is made even more intense by the live played soundscapes that are created on the spot and perfectly capture the atmosphere of each location and performance.

Get carried away by the energy of 50fifty.
Experience how dance transforms public space and holds up a mirror.

About 50fifty dance company - Solange Theys

Dance Company 50/Fifty is a new young dance company founded in September 2018 for not so young dancers aged 50+. This initiative aims to broaden the dance field for Contemporary Dance for dancers over 50 in Flanders and offer a stage and a voice to this motivated group of dancers. Through workshops that include contact improvisation, ground techniques and Japanese Butoh techniques, the dancers develop their own dance language and identity as performers. Their first choreography was “UnSea” under the direction of Solange Theys. Solange's style is a mixture of different dance styles in which Butoh has the largest share. Her strength is that she focuses mainly on developing her dancers in the expressive and less in the dance technical.

Wikipedia says “Dance can be seen as a form of nonverbal communication between people but it is also done by animals (mating dance).”

Butoh dancers express repressed feelings and thoughts, the “dark” side of man. By confronting their own subconscious, they seek to initiate change, in themselves and in the audience.Forget the muted lights and plush of the theater auditorium.