Òmero studio

Disciplines
Dance
Performance

Biographie
Spectacles
Contacts

Based in Brussels and Liège, Monia Montali (Italian, performer and choreographer) and François Bodeux (Belgian, visual artist) collaborate on stage projects since 2010, after a shared background in photography.

«In our practice, we weave strong connections between choreography, visual arts and sound. We bring these different languages together to generate highly dense perceptual spaces. Our aim is to create images where multiple layers of memory and meaning overlap and accumulate.

At the heart of this work lie questions of perception and time: extending the moment, shaping it through sensation, opening presence to vulnerability so that simple things may be inscribed with a different visibility.

We see this as an act of resistance in a world that tends to disconnect us from our bodies, drawing us into immediacy and an overabundance of events. To occupy places, to move away from the noise of the world, to mobilise our most hidden intuitions and sensations in order to redefine new territories for relationships».

Sur la nature des choses invisibles #1

2025

The performance is structured around a cyclical format where performers, sound and light designers interact live.

Part prayer, part war dance, part contemplation, part resistance, the choreography unfolds around the two primal energies that constitute the human being and his or her way of being in the world. It’s akin to Giacometti’s 'Walking Man', who stands between fragility and the attitude of a conqueror, body projected forward.

Odysseus

2022

Revisiting the tale of Odysseus, the show focuses on these questions: in the face of the present we are experiencing, how can we reweave together what has been undone? And how can we create the possibility of a gesture of love?

ILL Seen

2018

After Wavering Abode and Company, the last part of Beckett's trilogy was written as an urge to go toward a vanishing point, a desire for the horizon, a movement toward a liberating space.

Through the imposing presence since the start of the performance of a luminous artefact towering over the space, the performance immediately establishes a register of contemplation and silence. In this part, which, like a huge still-life, three figures seem ready to freeze and petrify.

Année de création

2010

Adresse

Belgium

Personnes de contact

Monia

Montali

Direction

moniamontali@yahoo.it

François

Bodeux

Direction