Ariadna Gironès

Mata + Rob Fordeyn

Ariadna Gironès Mata

SO?WHAT is a solo performance that merges choreography, visual, and plastic arts to explore identity and societal expectations. Ariadna transforms her body through various physicalities, using layers that symbolize hidden aspects of the self. The piece questions whether self-rejection stems from personal or societal pressures. It creates a mirror effect, highlighting the tension between the individual and society. Themes of social expectations, gender dynamics, and stereotypes are woven throughout, culminating in a rejected "monster" created by society.

A story of fears, power and taboos. 
A woman’s look at a woman’s body. 
A dance, a ritual, an outlet.
 

Ariadna Gironès Mata (she/her) has worked on stage and on camera, in dance and in circus, creating and performing, as well as a dance educator and as choreographic assistant. She started classical ballet at the age of 4. After finishing her studies at SEAD, she joined the young company Bodhi Project and she was part of a research with Wim Vandekeybus. She has worked as a performer with a.o. Geko, ErrequeErre, Voetvolk/ Lisbeth Gruwez & Maarten Van Cauwenberghe, Julien Grosvalet and Alexander Vantournhout, as well as with the circus discipline chinese-pole with Cie Lady Cocktail and Primavez Collectif. 

Rob Fordeyn

Absolute Beginners is both a mourning ritual and a spun out celebration, in which Fordeyn delves into his sense memory. Through reenactments, he relives, renarrates, and ultimately reformulates past experiences, transforming them into something new. 

Absolute Beginners patiently casts a spell, a strange, vulnerable math that follows a soundtrack featuring spiritual jazz by Carlos Nino, laments by William Basinski and Radmila Dimić, experimental pipe organ by Anna von Hausswolff, droning noise by Bennett and finally, a reworked version of Bowie by Civic Grace & Fordeyn. Absolute Beginners uses ways of looking back, letting go, laying to rest, and looking forward, celebrating the fragility of what it is to be.