Dame de Pic/Cie Karine Ponties

©Andrea Messana

Karine Ponties a fondé Dame de Pic/Cie Karine Ponties en 1996. Avec 46 pièces jouées dans 38 pays et 1000 dates de tournée sur 4 continents, la compagnie est réputée pour son langage corporel unique. Basée à Bruxelles, son identité locale a été façonnée par des partenariats structurants avec des artistes et des institutions belges. Au fil du temps, le travail de l’entreprise a également acquis une reconnaissance et des prix internationaux, menant à de vastes collaborations à l’étranger. Explorant des formes et des formats caractérisés par leur rayonnement auprès du public, cette recherche chorégraphique s’articule autour de la traduction. Traduire, éditer, non pas l’humain dans le monde, mais le monde dans l’humain, les êtres vivants parmi d’autres êtres vivants; traduire comme une médiation entre une pluralité de cultures et l’unité de l’être humain. Du dialogue entre les cultures au dialogue entre les arts, chacun des projets de la compagnie a servi de point de rencontre et d’horizon interdisciplinaire entre danseurs locaux et internationaux, acteurs, illustrateurs et musiciens, avec la danse comme plateforme, une façon d’engager et de rencontrer les autres. Au cours des 25 dernières années, l’entreprise a développé et développé son propre réseau de production et de distribution, notamment en Europe de l’Est (République tchèque, Slovaquie, Lituanie et Russie), en Asie (Vietnam et Corée), en Afrique (Sénégal) et en Amérique (Canada). De plus, alors que la qualité toujours exceptionnelle de la compagnie a garanti la fidélité des principales institutions belges de production et de distribution de danse, ils ont également continué à développer des outils pour élargir leur portée et impliquer des publics inconnus ou éloignés de la danse.

Karine Ponties founded Dame de Pic/Cie Karine Ponties in 1996. With 46 plays performed in 38 countries and 1000 tour dates on 4 continents, the company is renowned for its unique body language. Based in Brussels, its local identity has been shaped by structuring partnerships with Belgian artists and institutions. Over time, the company's work has also gained international recognition and awards, leading to extensive collaborations abroad.

Exploring forms and formats characterized by their outreach to the public, this choreographic research revolves around translation. Translating, editing, not the human in the world, but the world in the human, living beings among other living beings; translating as a mediation between a plurality of cultures and the unity of the human being.

From a dialogue between cultures to a dialogue between the arts, each of the company's projects has served as a meeting point and cross-disciplinary horizon between local and international dancers, actors, illustrators and musicians, with dance as a platform, a way of engaging and meeting others.

Over the past 25 years, the company has built up and nurtured its own production and distribution network, particularly in Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania and Russia), Asia (Vietnam and Korea), Africa (Senegal) and America (Canada).

What's more, while the company's consistently exceptional quality has guaranteed the loyalty of Belgium's leading dance production and distribution institutions, they have also continued to develop tools to broaden their reach and involve audiences unknown to or far removed from dance. The company's work revolves around a series of different objectives: the creation and dissemination of new repertoires, international artistic collaborations, artistic education, raising public awareness and mentoring young and/or up-and-coming artists.

Thanks to the personal commitment of Karine Ponties, the company has also participated in various European projects and offers ongoing support to young and future artists.

LOSS/ Home far away from home Kaunas Theatres Award - Fortuna 2022 (Lithuania)
Same Same Special Mention at the 2019 Czech Dance Platform Jury (Czech Republic)
Every Direction Is North 2017 Golden Mask - Best Dance Performance (Russia)
Pastime Paradise Nominated for the 2016 Golden Mask (Russia)
Luciola Nominated at the Critics’ Prize – Best 2013 Dance Performance (Belgium)
Mirliflor 2011 Golden Mask –Best Dance Performance (Russia)
havran and Fidèle à l’éclair 2009 MIMOS Festival Award
Holeulone 2008 MIMOS Festival Jury Prize
Holeulone 2007 Best Dance Performance Award – Critics’ Prize (Belgium)
Mi non Sabir 2005 Tanec Praha Festival Audience Award
Brutalis 2002 SACD Pize – Best Dance Performance

Pedagogical experience

With the idea of generational and intercultural opening up as a keystone of the vitality of the cultural sector, the company is also involved in a number of arts education projects, with diverse participants, locally and abroad.

Movement Workshops

· Amateurs

· Semi-pro and Performing Arts students

· Pros (dancers, circus performers, mimes, actors, puppeteers)

· Architects, Visual Artists, Professors…

Training Workshops and long-term Mentoring

· 3-year teaching and mentoring at Janacek Physical Theatre School in Brno (Czech Republic)

· 2-year teaching and mentoring of two classes of semi-professional actors in the context of an itinerant training platform “FOTTI” (Senegal)

· 1st Academy in Physical Theatre, Gesture and Mime at Festival Mimos (Périgueux, France)

· Hippocampe – workshops for young dancers and mimes (France)

· Escola Superior de Dança (Portugal) – intensive workshop for 2nd year Dance students

· Impulstanz Festival (Austria) – Dance Technique Workshop

Dame de Pic / Cie Karine Ponties is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, service danse, by Wallonie-Bruxelles International and Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre et Danse.

Social media

Website : http://damedepic.be/fr/

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/cie.damedepic

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/damedepicciekarinepontiesoff/

Vimeo : https://vimeo.com/damedepic

Contacts:

Karine Ponties // Choreographer and artistic director – karine@damedepic.be

Guillaume Toussaint Fromentin // Technical director and light designer - technique@damedepic.be

Mahalia Carette // Company manager – info@damedepic.be

Caroline Gallois // Distribution manager – diffusion@damedepic.be

Studios Le Labeur – lelabeur@damedepic.be

Office and studios – info@damedepic.be

Rue du Labeur 1, 1070 Brussels - Belgium